Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-07-05

a steamboat with a single engine. hard
aground.
do you snore?" asked the landlord
of the Earl
"At times" was the reply.
Il reckon, if you can control the Job,
you had better not pull it off tonight
Rattlesnake Bob's dom all the sn0ul'
that's necessary, and eff he was 20
rouse up an hear you snOrinn' thar
might be an npleasantness
The Earl said he would endeayor 10
control himself. He was ushered into
the room quietly. Rattesnake Bob was
crosswise in the bed and his feet in his
bots, hung over" He was the man
the Englishman had read about lie
was the frOntiersman OF his dream
What an opportunity He turned IN as
quietly as he could, occupying The
spare space in the bed. But he
couldn't sleep. He was thinking OF
the story he would have 20 tell when ha
went back He was thinking o., that
when he heard Rattlesnake Bob turn
over. He he'd his breath. Rattlesnako
Bob was awake. He put out one hand
and it lay upon the Englishman's face.
Then the hand was raised and In sec
ond Rattlesnake Bob was from under
the cover and on the floor In another
second he had lighted the piece of cane
die that was stuck on the window s.lL
He surveyed the stranger in bed, who
was quite still.
Don't look like a tenderfoot, an De
don't look like one of the boys. CO,
his shoes off. That's bad. Putin On
airs"
There was a lull. The Earl remained
quiet. Then he heard a loud laugh
This was followed by a pistol shot and
the shatter of glass. Rattlesnake Bob
had blown out one Of the glasses in tae
sash. The Earl remained quiet &c.,
was used to pistol shots. Heard thDn
in India. Rattlesnake Bob fired again.
The shot punctured the ceiling. SUI
the Earl was quiet
Then Rattlesnake Bob peppercd t1a
door, and the floor and the remains
glass in the window. After which
pulled the blanket from the Earl 10
shouted: Are We deaf or are We dc
The Earl opened his eyes cOmp
ly. He looked at his room mate oa..s.
and the said
Il wish you would put that e a1
and come TO bed, Robert. qe
late and you annoy me-"
With this he lay down. on Rattle
snake Bob, completely mosuerz.t. as
never before, put aside DTS eu .P
out the light and went br',T and,
arousing the landlord. d. said.
81 reckon I'll e) back 10 tlr ranch.
That man called me Robert and said |
annoyed him. Rcja, Ihta what
my mother used 10 call me. Wen. he's
kind o. touched me. Who yer he ie. and
man like me cant dfcrd 10 be touch
ed I'm of.
The landlord stood il the doorway
and saw the man pass DOWN the street
in the gray OF the morning, and d'
pear in the direction of The NOM 20,
the peaks Of which were being bIu-
ished by the sun.
81 reckon there's another one OF -..n
touches of nature, said the landlord
(which is dOin' more 70 ciyiize
country than preachin'," and Doc "'
in and closed the door
The Englishman said he was l9ra--
In all his life he said. there bad Doc.
experience like this, and he wen. .-i
J satisfied.-Chicago Chronicle.
SHERLOCK HOLMES AT TIL T---'
PHONE.
Hello"
| "Hellow
The law clerk was In commu1ica'I
the typewriter in another office.
"Ah. you have red hair" he raHr
How IN the word can you tell
"a white horse just passed. ~. --'
is not very red though"
"How can you teli?'
"Thr horse Is not very white"
For the lands sake"
"And you once lived IN the ae
districts"
..Ye-es. did-once; but how go
know that?"
by your exclamation. for t
sake"
You are from the country, CO...
clared.
Yes: how did you know thar
by the way you rang TIA,
! bell You thought you were Sill
grindstone." ..,
Never turned a grindstora in ms
Then It was a fecd-cuttcr. coy
a corn shelter, or a cider press. IL ..
Ard YOU have whiskers-ro. % may
wind whistling through the teIephoh,
1 hear. Good-by."-San Francisco w.