The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-01-17

! fight it out with Bill. The trouble
wasn't long in comm. Ollie Pearsell
knowed tibet Bill would be over to de-
mand his rights. and so he fixed fer
4 him. He loaded the old family gun an
put it in handy place. 1t WASH much
after sunrise when Bill hallooed out in
front of the Pearsoll place. Ollie's
mother went out and spoke to Bill in
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 TO
wait till doomsday. While the old
woman was parleyin' Oh came out.
"'Git in he said, I'll do the talkin'.'
"The old mother went to the house,
lookin' with fear an 1remblin at the
guns the boys carried.
"'Air yc goin' to keep them di'mon's%
Bill asked, without takin' his eyes off'n
Ollie.
"T'm goin' to keep my SHARE he
said, doggedly.
"'You've got no sharel' Bill ex-
claimed They're all mine; an you,
like the sneak tibet we air, hev come
along an stole them from me-
".You'll cat them Words Ollie said,
md without another word, he turned
back into the shapty. Bill raised his
gun to fire; but old Mrs. Pearso1 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 We when and
where ye say
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then, at daylight to-morror. Well set
tie it all there, onct an fer ALL
Gle clicked to his critter an rode
off in a canter.
'So1ne one told me that there was
scientific feller from London prospect
! in around the country, and / looked
him up, and late tibet night we slipped
over to the new timber back of The
Sims place and took look at the Ill
mond fields. 1t didn't take thet man
long to bust out in laff.
"'Thet's IA form of quartz he said.
AN amt worth nothin'. Them fellers
down at Moo Orleans will have a good
laff on Pearsoll when he brings in that
bag an calls 'em di'monds. Why, eff he
had bag of di'monds he'd be the rich
| est man ever QrcdmC OF.
"When l heard the teller say tibet 1,
told him of the dooel tibet was about to
happen on account of the trouble be-
tween the boys. We agreed thet it
would hev 20 be stopped. There had
been some dooelin' in them parts before
and there was no lnake-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 settin' in the back room
by knot fixin' his gun.
"'Put it up, Bill says l. There amt
goin' to be no eight
"'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
"'Guess you folks is In with the Pear
Soils Bill said, careless like, blow
ing down his gun an lookin' along the
barrel.
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gied until it began to be daylight, and
then Bill, he got up an said he'd hev
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. He he'd jest come along, an
was look'in at his gun when we rode up.
"The two men glared at each other
fer a minute, and then Bill blurted
| 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 l 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 Disguised, and Bill said:
"'Course we feels glad thet yer so in
terested. but no game like thet kin
stop business of this sort. I've bin
robbed, an I'm going after the robber.'
cat least said the man from Lon
don, yell let us act fer yer"
"'Say the word, We mean| Ollie
asked. 4 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 90
PAGES apart. The man from London
measured off the ground and asked the
men to toss up penny for position.
They didn't know what it meant, but
they done as he said. Then he held q
handkerchief above his head.
"'When drop this" esaid, begin
HE 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, l know'd tibet the both had fired
together
"'This is one time said the man
from London, tibet science didn't do
no good before land KANT do no good
after st. Louis Republic.
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