The sun., 1898-01-23

git to Injyanner But don't you ever let EN- Ind
out that turned 'em over TO you fer $40, fer
Jecwhoppity! see 1t ha'n't begun to strike yer
yit, Colonel. now dodwhollipin' thick and ugly
0sTs up sr hopEE Ed Is Ssf kss rosTsd and the
squealed. Blood spurted and fur flew. The
concert was enough to skeer into fits the ram.
blood curdiin' name 1 actSu'ly begun INTO to cit
skeert myself, fer, as overpowerin lively AS
work n %s The Ss fK as he
seemed to be gttin' his work in on the mules;
and when you come to think on it. mules wasn't
bar fightin' to do, and SO they amt built for
that sina o work as handy as they be for yank:.
to crack up them mules sDS; mine single PIN Fpint
more than they've got a right to be cracked up.
Ra sR there wasnt en "so sooy in ss
ie%nin fpT spell cause was Fer
II looked to me that If bars ever put mule on
@ their bili o, & fare fer supper. mule would be on
nothin snrer. The fight had an alarmin u as.
pect and was beginnin to look around to see
II couldn change that aspect q little with a
in the fight. just as / got It,. the bar had
backed away and riz on his hind feet to make a
i he had sort O. calc'lated that It goin to be
the grand windcrup O. the hull fight. He was
right: The rus rush was grand. and it was the
winder.up. But it wasn't the winder-up the b ar
had calc'laled on. fer the mule had backed
away. too, and made up to have grand rush and
Soon as the bur started on his ush tho mulc
started on his'n. only wisht you could q been
was that off mule. Sonder. The % one that's that's got OF
his nose hung highest the ground and his ears
loppin' the furdest, and looks as i he was
lightnn' on bar. It'd break his heart il he
knowed that I'm wantn' money SO bad to git
him and his mate for S25. 1t would. by catsi
But I've got to git to Iniyanner. Besides that.
i don seem to me as If I'd ever sleep easy ae in
II let yop go up among them Little Kittle BARS
without them mules goin' along to protect you.
twenty-five is like givin,, EN- away, .,but-huh !
takin your life in your hands. want to tell you,
goin up along Little Killlc without them mules.
Al. Jist the same wsht you could q been up
there to see that little cuss out yonder handle
hisself! When him and Tho bar was about six
foot apart; he riz up in the air and shot over
sot both Of his heels ag'in the back o the bars
head, md sunk EN- clean to the fetlock j'int
Maybe that Bar ar" didnt ,umbe S So ei did 'nS tRo
mule, cause he couldn't help hisself. for his
heels had gone so fur into the bars head that
got uD ag,n. The bar didn't. That ended tho
minute. I loaded tho b'ars carcass s'V onto o
the wagon. hooked the mules in, and away
We. we went fer home. The mules wasn't
been hosses, though, tho collection o gou9es
and rips, and tears they had would "a sent 'em
pimple nor scar on them mules to-day. and
here I'm settn' sunk so low as to say that III
let you have 'em fer $l5. want TO git to Injy-
amer so goll durn bad! What! Not fer fifteen :
And you're .goin' up along Little Kittle among
them b'nrsi Well, by gravy! I've heerd O.
fellers THROWN their lives away deliberate, but
never seen one before! But can't do no more
fer you, unless $40 d be a Go to blazes.
by cats! And II you git chawed and clawed and
gouged and mummixcd into sassage meat by a
bar up along Little Kittle. don't you never turn
to and blame mo fer itI'