The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-08-30
WIND AND WHISPERS.
Startling Proof From Kansas of Their Mys-
FERROUS Affinity.

FERROUS Affinity.
''They amt no doubt but Kansas is o
great state for whskers," said the man
with the ginger beard, ian, what's more,
this here connection between wind an
whiskers amt the funny joke some folks
thinks it is.
Ser instance said the grocer, 81 low,
now, that ef you was to shave them''-here
the grocer gave an imitation of the bloat
ing of a goat-'that you wouldn't be able
to tell them windy yarns, eh?'
The man with the ginger beard was so
busy picking the tail and fins off dried
herring in such manner as to lose none of
the meat that the grocer's sarcasm missed
its mark. After the herring had been dis
posed of and washed down with drink
of water, the man with the ginger beard
continued
las l was sayin, the connection be
tween wind an whiskers was showed to
me out in Kansas in Il durn funny way
You see they was old fellow out there
that could "a started out on the reputa-
ton of his whiskers. Well, one day this
. ole Teller goes out on his farm an runs
o@.e ht square up agln one Of the finest sam
pie of cyclone that Kansas had put up for
many day. One of the hands over in the
field, about II quarter of n mile away, sees
the cyclone hit the old man an started on
dead run for the house to git the wagon
to haul in his mangled remains though
he lowed he might have to go to the next
county to find EN- Now, what do you
think? He gets up to the field where he
last sees the old man, an stead of findin
airy remains he finds him stanein there
live as ever an lookin puzzled. Didn't |
see twister comm your way2' asked the
hired man. 1 guess you did, says the old
Teller, an that's what's puzzlin me. The
thing come along an run right into me,
an then the next thing | knowed it was
gone. Didn't go up in the air or nothin
else. Near as l can figure it out it must "a
been mysterious dispensation.
1.-The old fellow was stuck on a school.
ma am that had come from back cast an
that very night he asst err to marry him,
which she said she would if he would take
off them whiskers. 1t nigh broke his heart,
but he knuckled under. So the next day
he goes to barber shop in town near by
an tells the barber to cut 'cm loose
Well, the barber turns loose on them wills
kers, an in the next minute that there bar
Der shop was scattered all over the county,
half the town was blowcd down an the
other half was shook out of shape. 1t was
the queerest thing any one ever heerd of,
an don't suppose it would ever been ex.
planned If Teller who came along with
show an was sellin patent medicine
hadn't explained it. He said that the
fact was that the cyclone had got tangled
up in old Abner's whiskers when it disap-
peared so sudden an had been stickin there
until the barber cut the whiskers off an
gave it II chance to escape. ~
There was a crash and a smothered OK
clamation, and the grocer at first had n
wild hope that the man with the ginger
beard had been struck by lightning, but
an investigation showed that it was only
the man from Potato creek, who had fall
en- from his seat on the counter into the
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