Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-18


 advising us to change to hotter climate. We do not wish to take any advantage of Mr. Hopefield and therefore notify him that we shall reach his town about :3O a. in. and shall move directly on his store. If he is not ready to give us a hostile wei come, his friends must not find fault with the verdict of the coroner's jury. After disposing of the little matter with Mir: Hopefield we shall ask for brief interview with the postmaster. We send package of 3S kICKERs to Ford City, and only five or six subscribers get their papers. The remainder of the package mysteriously dis appears. We shall ask the postmaster to enlighten us. It is said that he is no hand to make explanations until after he shoots, but as he is known to be very slow on the draw we expect to- get the drop on him and induce him to enter upon very ani- mated conversation.
 Wednesday will be our day for looking up the reptile who held us mp one night last fall on Cochise place. We didn't ob- ject to being robbed of a few dollars, but the soulless cuss made us repeat after hii'l that THE KICKER had only $50 circulation, and that we had stolen every one of the 10 cadavers in our private graveyard. Wa have been lying low for him, and the oth- CT day we got it straight that he was bed ded away in dugout on Big Six range. He will no doubt be loaded for bear but knowing our cause to be just We shall be. gin banging away as soon as we get with in range. Fifteen CT twenty snots oughs t. do the business, but for fear of accident we shall carry 50 extra cartridges.
 On Thursday we have planned to attend a shooting match at Duncanville This will be our first experience at such an event, and we should not show up on this occasion but fer the communication sent us by Mexico Bill, who Is bossing the af- fair, and who aao one of his cars split while prancing around town one day last summer. He contends that it was bull let from one of our guns which disfigured his ear for life, and we have never denied it. He sends word that if we show up at Duncanville he will make us eat dirt, and we are going to show up. When we have got throughSwith William, we hope to take at least 30 new subscriptions.
 On Friday we must make still another trip into the country. Ex-Judge Hardy, who runs the "2 by 2' ranch for the owners in St. Louis, has been blowing around about our ambition to hold office and de- claring that we ought to be squelched. We feel that we must see the judge and have an explanation. He seems to have jumped at conclusions, and it will be our pleasant duty to jump him back again. We do not apprehend any serious difficulty. The judge is so nearsighted that we have known him to pick up mules hind leg instead of his hat on windy day. We expect to have to rest the muzzle of our right hand gun on his nose before he can see the point we shall make, but he will eventually see it and back water like an old stern wheeler with her nose on sand bar.
 On Saturday, in case we are still alive and feeling as coltish as usual, we shall rustic around town and clean up several little matters. The postmaster Is getting mighty independent again and must be shot at. Lawyer Johnson has been retain ed to sue us fer libel, and we want few minutes talk with him. Steve Wallace is telling around that he once led us out of the Brenclao saloon by the left ear, and we want to pin him right down to the exact date. Indeed we shall circulate around pratty generally and call in most any where, and if any one is unprepared to see us or argue his side of the question it won't be our fault.