Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-31
A BLOODY BRITISHER.

The Boys Had Fun With Him, hut
Not Altogether as They Expected.
That's all right about them Britishers,"
said long-legged western man to a group
of reporters in The Star office. one of whom
had told story of how an Englishman had
been fooled by some Americans on train
in the far west by cry of train robbers.
Eyes, but they don't like the robber bust
ness a little Bit" asserted the reporter. =.
II reckon not" admitted the westerner,
doggedy. "Leastways, after what seen
ard felt should say there was one, any
ways. that didn't like it overly
What did YOU do? Scare him out of a
year s GROWTH"
well, no." was the hesitating answer, Il
reckon it wuzn't quite as much as that"
Tell us about it" put in an impatient
listener.
in a tone Of semi-sadness. There was
about a dozen of us fellers goin' through
Texas in a sleepin' car, ana the only
stranger in the lot was strarpin Dig Eng
l1shman, with a voice on him like bass
drum We got him out in the smoker, and
it wasn't more'n eighteen minutes TIL we
was loadin' him up to the neck with stories
o. train robbers and that sort OF thing. Al
first he kinder quieted down bit, because
we didn't tell no kind of yarns but blood
curdlers, but it wasn't long till he had got
his second wind and purity soon ha ne Mas
b1aggtn' what he'd do If robbers happeheo
to stop any train he was on.
THAT'S list where we wanted him at ana
IT wasn't long till we had the 1op put up
with the conductor and the rest OF lne gang
to stop the train and skeer that Brltlsher
plumb to death and back agin II was
about II o'clock at night. ! reckon IN
mighty lonesome place, .when the Train
came to a stop and we hearo a sno. ou.-
side. That was a sign fer me, and jump
ed up and yelled robbers So did the otner
fellows, except two that somehow wasn't
around. The next minute Dig chap WIN
his face masked stepped In where we was
and stuck his gun right at u.s. throweo
up my hands and so did the others, and we
begged the Britisher not to kill anybody
but do like we done. He was meeker n
lamb. and put his paws up IKE oaps' ..
Then another masked man took the
place of the first one. while ne Wenr
through US for our valuabies, whlcn we
handed out, all but the Britisher never
but the first thing I knowed the Britisher
let mis- two fists go, and the two masked
men went down In a pile, ana on the next
lick I Tired 'em with another Teller on top
of me. and the dern Britisher set fiat down
on the accumulation and called for the
rest of the gang. Leastwise that was what
I afterwards heard he said, fer didn
know anything fer two hours, and we had
to git a doctor fer the first two he hit. l
thought mule had kicked me, and they
told me afterwards that they thought
lightnin' had struck the train
"How did he get onto your scheme?" in
"Derned if we could ever find out. I
guess he didn't git on; jist kinder sus-
picioned and took the chances He had
all the advantage. fer We couldn't shoot
him, and he didn't give us time to do any
sluggin'."
.'TIow did 1t finally come out?"
"Oh, fine. When we got to the next big
town we paid for a banquet in his honor,
and before daylight we had cleaned him
out of about $500 in quiet little game OF
draw upstairs.