Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-09-29
lyANNA HARDIN COUNTY TENNEssE Thursday
fur hy rerolvet ''old Bphraim hauled
off ahdibfokn mgariEht armowith ono

l1ur my revoivef. Old Ephraim hauled
foff ahdfbrobn mgaright armowith ono,
cuff.{ phend L started 70 rum and
heard the gals kcreahii,', and the next
thing 7 kuowcd- j. was down aud the
baron top of mel Sltwas while was
yin, on the ground tiat Lgot out my
knife xwith my sleftu hand. The man
Eyith the gals WAS from Boston, or
around thar somewhat. ] guess he had
! d gunabut he did jist as most any other
imam would--stried TO run pof the gals
While the BAR was busy with me.
tLeastwise, IL never blamed him fur
DOM as he did," sAfrsi 3 y il
" And they left you slonePr % TfQg,
y thought they had, and Old Ephriam
Thought so,- too, fur he quit 1ookin'
their way and began to feed on my car
cass. ,s'vped him, with the knife
across the nose, aud as he drew off !
jumped up and made run fur 1t. No
60. He was arter meat and he o,er-
took and downed me agin. l did the
best ] could with n knife In my left
hand, but l was only a rag in his
clutches. He was usin teeth and claws
on me when somebody who was purity
clus by called out:
"'l'm here, and I've got your gunl
Hold up and let me get a shot
II heard four shots afore l tainted
away, and l knowed the bar was dead,
fur he wilted right down on my legs.
1t was half an hour AFTER that afore
cum to and found one gal holdin' my
head in her lap and the other splashin'
water over me and bindin up my hurts.
The man was no good. He was
skeered silly, but the gals was dom
the right thing
| ''And what had happened?"
| wall, Justly, my gun got out of the
holster in the scrimmage. Nextly, that
Boston gal had the pluck to come out
of the crowd and pick it up. Lastly,
while Old Ephriam was SO tarnal busy
with me that he didn't know thar was
anyone else in the territory, she cum
up and showed the muzzle agin his head
and fred the hull six bullets into his
brain. Pye got 'em right here in an
old terbacker box, jest as they war
dug out, and Iskin. show We his head
and claws in barroom at. Elko. That
1 gal wasn't but eighteen years old, and
she Wore glasses and had gold in her
teeth, and when we started out that
4 day wouldn't hev traded rabbit pelt
fur two gals like her. G3faba3l.
A Well? k-A-rs. .sa
| wall, thar wasn't any tomfoolery
romance, he replied after long sigh.
The party went away next day, and
I've never seen one of 'em since, I
tried to thank the gal fur what she did,
but / was so bit. and clawed and
chawed and broke up that couldn't get
the words out straight. She said she
was sorry fur the accident, and sorry
she didn't git to me sooner, and that
was all, except that it took me a year
to get well." 80
"And have you never heard from her
since?" 80 e.
"Wall, you know" as he wriggled
around in an uneasy way, when got
up ] kinder thought she'd be glad to
git few relics of the kentry here
abouts, and SO / got together a lot OF
fancy stones and minerals and petrified
things and Injnn curiosities and sent
'em on to Boston. She writ back to
say as how she was pleased and to ask
how got along, and-and-"
"Come, now--what else? You arc
keeping something back!" a.1.'..
"You won't laugh at meP"
"Of course not" ~ e'-N
won't tell the boys that Pm soft in
the head?"
mo" A4st Hr w tfHr
"Wall, you hold the lines a minute. v
And after deal of fumbling about in
the bosom of his flannel shirt he
brought out parcel wrapped in oil
skin. There was more fumbling about
to unwrap it, for the bear had chawed