The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-20
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but money Is skeerce, and I've got to git
to Injyanner But don't you ever let 'em
find out that | turned EN- over to you fer
$50, fer they'd Don't care for 'eml
Not at thirty? Jeewhoppityl l see Il
ha'n't begun to strike yer VT, Colonel,
how dodwhollipin' thick and ugly bars Is
up along Little Kitte!
T'Well sir the bar reared and the mules
squealed. Blood spurted and fur few. The
concert was enough to skeer into FITS
the rampagin' panther, whose yen give
that holler It's blood curdlln' name. ac-
tuly begun to git skeert myself, fer, as
overpowerin' lively as them mules was,
somehow they couldn't git their work In
on the bar as tellin' as the bar seemed
to be gittin' his work in on the mules;
and when you come to think ON 1t, mules
wasn't invented with the idee that they'd
have much bar hghun' 10 do, and so
they amt built for that kind O. work as
handy as they be for yanlsin' canal boats
and bark wagons. / amt goin 20 crack
them muels o mine a single pin more than
they've got a right to be cracked up, 50
there amt no use in my sayin' that l
wasn't glttin pooty durn squeamish over
the way that fight took to leanin' for
spell, cause / was Fer somethin' Ike
three minutes durn' the rumpus 1t look
ed 10 me that II bars ever put mue.s
on their bill o. fare for supper, mule
would be on that pertick'ler bars Dill
o. fare that night, and nothin surer.
The fight had an alarmin' aspect, an l
was beginnin to look round TO see " 1
couldn't change that aspect little with
a club / got the club, but II didn't take
no part In the fight. Just as ! got 1t,
the bar had backed away and rlz on
his hind feet to make rush on one o
the mules, and IT looked to me as II he
had sort O. calculated that IL was goln'
TO be the grand windin up o the hui
fight He was right The rush was
grand, and it was the winder-up But IL
wasn't the winder-up the bar mad calc-
LATED on for the mule had backed away,
too. and made UP to have grand rush
and a winder-up OF his own.
"Soon as the bar started on his rush the
,n,,Ia started on his'n. l only wlsht you
could a been there to see how that mule
handled hisself! IT was that Off mule yoIl-
der. The one that's got his nose hung Nigh
eat the ground and his ears loppin' the
furdegt. That's him. He's blue llghtnin' on
bar. It'd break his heart II he knowen
That I'm wantin' money 80 bad to git out
ia Intvanner that I'm golu' to let you have
him and his mate for S25. II would, by CATS
INT I've got to git to lnJyanner. BESIDES
that II don't seem to me as IL Ia ever
sleep easy agin II j let you go up among
them Little Kittle bars without tnem
mules goln along to protect you. twenty
five Is like givin' EN- away, but-huhE nor
All right. You're the doctor, but you're
takin' your life in your hands, l want TO
teu Won goln' up along Little Kittle with
out them mules.
"Jist the same I visit you could "a
been up there TO see that little etss out
wonder handle hlsself When him and the
bar was about six foot apart, he rlx up In
the air shot over that bar ike sky-rock-
81. AS ne went over he sot both OF his
heels ae'in the back o the bars head, and
sunk ,em clean to the fetlock tint into the
uelv old bruins brain. Well, say! Maybe,
tbat ba'r didn't tumble! So did the mule.
cause he couldn't help hisseh. fer his
heels had gone so fur into the bars head
tbat ne couldn't get 'em out quick enough
"a Keen from goin down with the bar. But
the mule got up ag'n. The bar dldntThat
ended the fight. The mules quieted down in
less'n a minute. j loaded the b ar 3 carcass
ONTO the wagon, hooked the mules In, and
o,,,ay we went fer home The mules wasn't
burt much-not fer mules. II they'd been
bossos. though. the collection o gouges
and rims and tears they had would "a sent
'enn 10 boss heaven q hummin. You can't
find a pimple nor scar on them mules
to-day and here I'm q settin sunk 50 low
as to say that I'll let you have 'em fer SIS.
/ want to git TO Injyanner so goll durn
bad What Not fer hfteen2 And you're
eoin' up along Little Kittle among them
bars? Well, by gravy I've heerd O. fellers
THROWN their lives away deliberate, but
fer you, unless 80 d a. Go to blazes,
then! I'll drive to InJyanner with them
mules. by catsl And II you git chawed
and clawed and gouged and mummixed
into sassage meat by a bar up along Lit
tie Klttle, don't you never turn to and
blame ma fer III