Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-03-10

Cne DoaI tnet WIS 200 about thet tlmo
Of year. They left Ollie at home to
fight it out with Bill. The trouble
wasn't long in comm. Ollie Pearsoll
knowed tibet Bill would be over to de-
mand his rights, and SO he fixed fer
him. He loaded the old family gun an
put it in a handy place. 1t wasn't much
after sunrise when Bill hallooed out in
front of the Pearsoll place. Ollie's
mother went out and spoke to Bill in
q pleasant way, but he told her to get
in the house, eff she didn't want to get
hurt. He was there to see Pete and
Ollie, and he'd see them if he he'd 10
wait till doomsday. While the old
woman was parleyin' OF came out.
"'Git in he said, I'll do the talkin'.'
"The old mother went to the house,
lookin' with fear an tremblin' at the
guns the boys carried.
"'Air yc goin' to keep them di'mon's?'
Bill asked, without takin' his eyes ofr'n
Ollie.
"1'nl goin' to keep my SHARE he
said, doggedly.
/ "'You've got no shared ELL ex-
claimed. They're all mine; an you,
! like the sneak thet we air, hev come
along an stole them from me-
"'You'll cat them Words Ollie said,
and without another word, he turned
back into the shapty. Bill raised his
gun to fire; but old Mrs. Pearsoll put
up her hand.
"'Don't, Bill!' she exclaimed. EFF We
must fight, do it fair. My boy amt
afeard of We; he'll meet ye when and
where ye say
On the old camp meetin' ground,
then, at daylight to-morror. Well set
tic it all there, onct nm fer ALL
"He 'clucked' to his critter an rode
OFF in a canter.
"So1ne one told me- that there was
scientific fe'ler from London prospect
in around the country, and I looked
him up, and late thet night we slipped
over to the new timber back of the
Sims place and took look at the tii'-
mond fields. 1t didn't take tibet man
long to bust out in laff.
"'Thet's IL form of quartz he said,
am ain't worth nothin'. Them fellers
down at Moo Orleans will have good
laft on Pearsoll when he brings in that
bag an calls 'em di'monds. Why, eff he
had q bag of 6i' monds he'd be the rich
est man ever drcamt Of
when heard the Teller say tibet I
told him of the dooei tibet was about to
happen on account of the trouble be-
tween the boys. We agreed tibet it
would hev to be stopped. There lad
| been some dooelin' in them parts before
and there was no make-believe in it.
AS there was no reason fer no fghtin'
in this case, we felt it our dooty to in
| terfere.
Long before daylight we went to
see Bill Sims. When we got to the
house Bill was scttin' in the back room
by knot fiXin' his gun.
"'Put it up, BILL says I. There amt
goin' to be no Gght.'
Has he backed out?' Bill asked.
Haven't seen him. said, but this
man here and me has bin over to your
di'mond mine, and he says they amt
di'monds at all. He knows, fer he is
from London, where di'monds grows
on trees
"'Guessyou folks is in with the Pear
Soils Bill said, careless like, blow
ing down his gun an loolsin' along the
barrel.
"Well, we talked an pied and ar
gied until it began to be daylight. and
then Bill, he got up an said he'd hey
to go. We saw it was no use to say
nothin' there, and we follered. 1t
wasn't long till we got to where Pear
soil was. lie he'd Jest come along, an
was look'in at his gun when we rode up.
1.-THE two men glared at each other
out:
"'Air We ready?'
"'Allus ready Ollie replied back.
Then the man from London stepped
up and began to talk. I've heered
preachers thet could talk we black in
the face, but never heerd none tibet
could sling language by the side of
that teller from England. He used
words that nobody understood, talked
about the field of honor an the abusin'
of it, an the Lord knows what else, but
when he got through Bill and Ollie
looked kinder disgusted, and Bill said:
COURSE we feels glad tibet yer so in
terested, but no game like tibet kin
stop business of this sort. I've bin
robbed, an I'm going after the robber.'
"'At least said the man from Lon
don, yell let us act fer yery
"'Say the word. We mean?' Ollie
asked. Il don't see why not
Out there under the trees of tibet
pretty place on one of the finest morn
ms ever see, them two men stood 20
PAGES apart. The man fror, London
measured off the ground and asked the
men to toss up a penny for position.
They didn't know what it meant. but
they done as he said. Then he held a
handkerchief above his head.
"'When ! drop this" he said. begin
"I1e dropped the rag minute later
and one shot came. thought tibet
one of the guns had missed. but when
Bill and Ollie tumbled fore on their
faces, know'd tibet the both had fired
together
"'This Is one time said the man
from London. 'thet science didn't do
no good before and KANT do no good
after st. Louis Republic
The Mississippi and its tributaries
drain an area OF 100000 square miles.
She'll Oisslo Constantly.
I'm so worried about my daughter,-
said the woman in the new fur cloak.
she goes about so solemn, SO de-
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