The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-12-20
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that Nebraska Judge had taken up the
4 after OF gold contracts and had anpoun-
\ ced that he would hold that, III case
4 man who had stipulated for payment IN
y gold or nothing should Insist OIL this
court This being the first decision based
nnd notes and other unconcealed but
deadly weapons, every person who IL at
an interested in the money question dis
AcQSSed the matter, and some held that
the Judges ears Were long and flowing,
= and others asseverated that righteousness
4 had at last come out. OF Omaha. Great
ter. and it was what is called q sensation.
until at length the court heard the rum
3 ersed TO declare that no such thing had
: been held, and that 1t was all n case or
; Hunt again. Then the people settled back
Z into quiet once more, Tor they all knew
about Hunt
There were two Hunts In Omaha If It
\ were not for that nil would be we'll and VIC
would hear less about the fearful calaml-
& ties and dire things just about 10 happen
In that town, The residents therein have
4 got used to 1T, so when they are awaken
In the morning by the newspaper an
.nonncement that a cyclone has torn out
them broadcast they simply turn over in
bed and remark that it sounds like II
4 pretty good story, but IL it was Little
fs his standard of the narrative OF the es-
& capped lion which ate an entire primary
to the circus, While I II IL was ai Big Hunt Hunt
who put the thing into circulation, he
ought 10 remember that he has a reputa,
ZION Tor nendacity TO sustain ana should
not risk 1T by uttering such poor. puny
Il and meek pieces of fable as this. And
they the are not bit frightened, for they
I have been there before. Truth cannot
8 exist in public in Omaha as long as Lit
& Tie, Hunt and Big Hunt remain unwept.
i the populace know It, Little Hunt and
big Hunt are reporters who work on rival
j papers. and the chief aspiration Of each
hn N 1lft sFi44
!. " and then to go around where the victim
is In bed and tell him about ii. This was
y u holy ambition In the beginning and re-
suited in, a great onllvenIng OF the local
columns of the TWO newspapers. but one
day Big Hunt remarked on q mysterious
= going to print the next morning, and Lit
I tie Hunt, knowing that he himself had no
& mysterious or blood curdilne story. dccl-
ied that he would get the better of the
! bargain anyway. So, with Infinite labor
& and perseverance,, he worked UP Il yarn
y Charles Wesley and then in possession OF
8 d poor man with long. white whiSkers
Z who was starving, Little Hunt wrote the
Z hymn himself. and 1t was Il very VILLAIN
Gus pieces of verse. but he told the story
4 with such rathos that it consumed four
columns, and when the editor saw It he
4 thought of putting the paper in mourning
R because the narrative looked SO sad. Ii
Was triumph. and Little Hunts descrip-
Il Of his l.ght-hearted way of rising in the
( morning and singing that hymn in lieu of
n
ner. and later softly grooming it as a sub
sdtute for supper, was a thing to he
f banded asea. down in the Little Hunt family
was that Big Hunts paper did not have
: any story of mysterious sort at ali, for
f f,,e pig fellow had been Dragging for the
Z Iun OF soaring his smaller rival That
started It. and get square for the Charles
Wesley business Big, Hunt found that a
i TO be hanged and who was waiting in nv
4 I 5ienee Tor the starters word. was Il lineal
.neaSa g, an Of Shakespeare, and could
Z more columns with n big head To- II r. =,
5 was different class OF people from the
manuscript who called at the iail TO taii,
y 70 the posterity of Shakespeare. Ri~
4 s ~ i nag been wiser than Little Hunt for
tell all about his connection win no
Il AVON bard. only the fellow would insist
IN IN, getting little mixed in his dates. and
4 39iu OF his poor grandfather until Rig
Hunt heard of it and suggested thai WIFE
B q matter - or few hundred years made
= no personal difference 10 him, still i,
might tend TO embarrass and WORRY such
persons as had thought they knew some.
S snams ABOUT Shakespeares time and ca
!. since he had married into ' the s Sbsr LOT
peare family he had become a rather
9aneu character, and he dismissed Iyt,
~ aunt from his presence and sent for LIE LIE
We Hunt, TO whom he presented the nrn-
p pos1ao MI, that he cease being a Shakes
Z the columns of Little Hunts ponar NE,
ne was fourth cousin of Queen Eic,o,rriiaa'
ana anu mat II was scandal and n sha,nn.
< t tnat ne wasn't given more meat and nofa
toes on the strength of the reIot t;o rbtta-
i Little Little Hunt saw 1t was hot stun. and II.
Z leslanee was at once transferred and tho
fbs w cay Little Hunts paper carried 10
q fourth Cousins wrongs, and nradIn Ia
q Inat the Queen would send a fleet of me-, .eu
n sMps up the Missouri river, past JSans go
Si,jysr ana a,; storm the county jail until Joe
/ 5It,lllner would be glad to give up the i,cvS
" course this created q profoun ,ie si heSs.
i non ana Big Hunt came near ios;nS, Ia;
Ju ~. 5Sr me manner In which he had mixe5
R,,t queen fbe io victoria and the stratfordite.
y lor ,,When the criminal heard thar tbo
4 Btnsll.sized reporter had embellisbad the
mar a,,, and had introduced war vessels
4 ana diplomatic friction into II he insisi
r go on having cent cigars in od%;, iinsist-
IS ~ .ccne%ing tobacco, else he would returU
!: 70 20 the shakespeare lineage For saver.i
s yS Sars lni ms warfare kept on between Bin
: aunt and Little Hunt. Readers Of i ,hee
newspapers could not be sure wbe,Iar me me
$ nan waiting death for breakine ~ o ,ne
a i Sfrcss partenders head with a hiiiiar6
S Sus was an on-shoot of royalty or man
stories in the two newspapers amnics, me
anotner. The one which was Ioprns,
I I usually was counted as the winner ~
!, ta n,ga i ds1s Sh3kespeane article was b,t
9 statement Of Little Hunt ran o,,e. tni "a
4 Lne Inlra column for seven lines tbon 4,
II @ va .a,ecepted IS victory for Little HIM,
& another twenty-f -four hours Tho 10 lor
X er got interested and bribed his Tno,I
s 55sMsalS Sn, 70 read Shasperean SelectjonS MA
4 sSNrke,s Peerage to him and sent a raonnst
S order n few volumes of EnElish fiuuse
4 lYr ms scdification. He began 10 'contS
8 Ll!y pfs eXpensiye tastes, and as a relative
Ia I,T,.I