Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-14

he YAH ulinh 10 near MN talk, and who
believe implicitly every word he utters.
| Hence he is able to keep drunk ali vim
| ter. lie diners from other REPTILES by
| lying torpid all through the summer.
Old Ananias was sitting the other
day at table with two convalescents.
who were listening to him with open
| mouths aud close attention They kept
| the whisky coming Just often enough
| 70 keep him going Wen tuned up and
In line spirits.
or course, gentlemen, In the late
nnploaSantness 1 was on our side.
/ was IN n Texas regiment. fighting
1 regiment, sab. and II l do say II, my
self was not the most backward. |
| was a-goin' along one day up in Old
I Nirginyah, when three Yankees took
after me, Three was too many OF
I course 10 fight open, 30 l tries strategy.
l ran up a hillside where there was a
[ big rock, as big, sab, as n freight car;
! jumps behind IL and cocks my gun.
] You sec, the rock was 'twixt me and
I them, and / heard them fix It up for
one TO go round one way, and tothcr
tother way; the third man to lay low
where he wae--a sorter reserve, you I'M
derstand. II was a good scheme, but
l was fox In them days, gentlemen,
ana / takes my nun and crawls up on
top the rock, The two fcllers came
round. met each other sudden Ike.
and each, thiukin' the tother was me.
cracked loose-bang and there was two
dead YANKEES pulled down on the
third man from top OF the rock aud he
clNed right there, give up his gun. and
! took his money, his hat and boots
You know | cut on one OF his ears
and let him 80. Never liked to be
bothered with prisoners. and stlll want
cd some token OF the capture, Why,
when the war was over had two water
httt EtfIUlA Of 'rhnEf 50
my house now, if the hounds amt got
away with them"
'oh, mNl said one Of the convulcs-
cents, turning pale. Liquor all around
was procured, aud Ananias went right
along.
you've an heard tell, ! reckon. about
old Judge Bean, up 10 NinCEnroun ac-
quitting man for killing a Chiuce
because there wasn't nothing said iu
Texas law about a ChinpO at all.
was that man, | amt proud over KIN
INK a Chinep, for them and nigEcrs and
MeNlcaus don't count. But this cusacd
heather was running cptlug Joint,
and one time. waiting for gruh. / sce
him stir up u plate OF soup with hts
pigtan. ! Just cut on his head with
one sWipe of my bowie. My fayoritO
weapon, gentlemen / tool, the pigtail
home, ana my vile uses o. right now
FOR switch IN her back hair. Itg never
got over being greasy Whether It's
from the soup or because Chinese hnir
81 never heard anything like thut he
fore" said one of the couvaluscpnts
Refreshments an around, aud tho false
hood factory went TO wprl, ugaln
Did YOU ever hear tell OF Jim Blood? I
They called him Trigger Jim No?
We'll he WINS one OF tho worst mon ever
In this country. His range was from
Waco down to Austin. aud he run that
country 10 suit his own self lie did
what he burned please. and nobody
give him No / was n bowling coyote
myself In them dayE. uud there wasn't !
anybody who could out Jump. out-nght
or get away with your humble servant.
l used 10 roam from the coast up here
to Santonc, and I heard or jim 1 |
sent him word I was coming over to I
Austin and tame him. that | wouldn't {
bring no gun. uu 1 didn't need n 10
tame such "A lamb ms he was. I run I
chances In this business.
for | went right over. ana took nothing .
but my bowie.
you know how Ausiinp built, don't .
you2 There's q hig wiuo main street /
running from the river up hin.
HtrnIrht for uenr a mile 90 whore The
capitol building w.. looked for Jim an .
mp this Hill, everywhere. ana didn't .
md him. | begun to think he wasn't .
iiInNnN. WHOM WHY nm ON the mn I ran
slap into him before know IL. lie was
luylng Tor me mp there. and had me
covered with "a MNahonter before could
got my bowie
Il gtnrtcd To run. and figured 10
dot whea ne shot AZ he cracked loose
1 jumped way up In tho air and aha IA
sniff. lust what those ahow gals docs.
1nlv mine wasn't on tho ground bv siN
foot. Tho bullet went under mo.
knew he had Ave more cartridges go
mn the ground running. and gduntted
low down when his run bnrl,pd tho SEQ
md time Tint bullet took or NV hat
md pont IL spinning forty feet In front
~ mo was 10 ii in n second. and "a
stooped tho third shot came. II nil
nae iust ON ton the lowest end of nv
spinal column, and piowed up streak
" meat clear to the nnpc OF my neck.
was iuunine like the devil right down
Iho middle of tho mnin etreet. nnd MIN
ligbt nftcr mo. There yn AMI a soul in
,it3bi. evervhndv RIM In Ma hole nj ne
nrst b,oinnfnts of tbinpa + never Inst
rack Of the number Of the shots
,bnt,,rb and mad nv fingers ON the how.
~ N",.t G,e inmned sideyyiso ana
.Lo t,,iint III NV nina nocl,st ana scat'
800 danis az ,nn,tn rards al 40,
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az ~ '1,,rnered ,vhirii,i, sor, M n innn
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