Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-08-23

back or too many round him, or Pickles
couldn't git his boss step, or somethin,
fer be didn't throw it. but jest kept yclin
an ridin louder an faster every minute.
About this time Stockton came out from
his barroom.
"'LoCk here, Pickles. he says, I've jest
told three Of my men TO shoot you up
whole Let if you 90 to pitch that rope jest
once, an they're goin to do it. Bein rs the
news concerned you personal, l allowed it
wasn't nuthin more than friendly to tell
you. Then, agin, l don't like to lose n
good customer like you till l has to no.
how.
$50 old Ike he goes back TO his barroom,
an Pickles gifts down an leaves his boss
standin an comes back up ON the porch.
Do you know Jack, he says, 4 don't
like the onrespockful way you talks of In
juns. I'm 1njun part myself and don't
like it,
"'No?' says Jack. i s'pose that's fact
too. An yet, Pickles, not intcndin nuthin
personal at all, fer l wouldn't be personal
with a horned toad, I'm not only Onre
spccbful Of an Injun an thinks the gov
mcnt oughtor pay a bounty fer the skelps
but states Il belief that mean, ornery
mud bloodcd, sneakin, boss stealth mon
grel of half breed is lower yet | huldin
he amt even pcople-ain't nuthin, in fact
But, to change the subject as well an open
up avenue fer anuther roHnd of drinks, | II
bet you, Pickles, you stole that hoss down
thar an that the OK" brand on his
shoulder amt no brand at ALL but Jest
picked on with the point Of a knife
"Whcn Jack puts it all over Pickles this
Away. we looked fer some shuptin shore.
But Pickles couldn't steady hielsrlf ON the
1,t
seed He'd ride right et n thing as thou.h
be was Foin clean throC ID c. over, an Jest
the las second he'd sht'.l -. ch aa weak
en-. Tho fact is. son, !; WASH Pickles
fault. There mint aov breed OF man on
earth but the purc white as will Play dcs-
peratc deal clean through an call the turn
fer life or death at the close, an Of course
Pickles was only Lalf .itc. So lie laugh
ed sortcr ugly Mt Jacks bluff an allowed
he'd order drinks without no bcttin
An then. Jack, he says, 1 want you
to take dinner with me- I'll have Ike git
up somcthin right.
"'I'n go you, says Jack. if it amt
nuthin but sowbelly.
"'I'll fix you people up a feed, says old
| Ike, but You can't do your feedin in nc
dinin room of mine I'll fix it over in the
camphouse t'other side the corral. an you
kin be jest as sociable as you please. There
won't be nuthin nor nobody fer you to
hurt or disturb over there
CATER a little their grub was got ready
/ in the caphouse an Jack an Pickles walks
over side an side They goes in an shuts
the door, an in about five minutes bang
bang! goes the two six shooters, an we all
canters over an finds Jack eatin away all
right an Pickles over the other side with
IL Ii
min out over his left eye.
L" 1t don't look like Pickles was hun.
| CRY much, after all, says Jack.
They'd both pulled their guns as they
sat down an put EN- in their laps, but, jest
as / say, Pickles couldn't stan the pres
sure, an gittin nervous he grabbed fer his
gum an as he went to git it up the muz
zle caught under the table top an there hi:
bullet was, all safe in the wood Jack
bein clean strain, had better luck. After
dinner we impaneled a jury an tried Jack
fer the KILN. OF course we know'd he q
got to be acquitted an the KILN was right
but it bothered us heap to find a ground
to put it on.
" 'You see, says Dan Boggs, this kill
in was bound to be all right from the
jump, no matter who'd got sailed. Each
was sigin the other on an they Jest went
to this shootin hand in hand like brothers
Neither WAS to blame, an that's what git:
me-.
Finally Cherokee Hall gifts up an says
This here KILN was all right, but thcr,
bein some present difficulty Of givin The
reasons why it's all right, an OWN as WE
do dooty to the public, moves you tina
our verdict be Justified homicide" baset
on the ground that Pickles commits sui
eide.
"This was good enough. OF course Pic
kles didn't commit suicide none, but tina
didn't hurt it fer a reason jest the same. ,
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