Arizona republican., 1900-09-24

' Come on Tn an IGel up some, said Earp to the naughty youth from the foreign strand, and the Englishman all unsuspectingly went into Mov's with them.
 "There were about fourteen of the well known hot cards of Tombstone sit ting around eXpectantly at the tables. and they weren't there accidentally, either. They all settled back in their chairs sort O contented like when Earp and Carlin walked in with the English man and sat down at one O the pine tables.
 "Lets see.' said Earp, musingly, when they had sat down, what's the hash scheme for tonight? Steak and fried spuds eh, Frank?' Turning to to Carlin, who nodded. Yours is tamales. I s'pose,' suddenly turning to the young Englishman.
 "The Britisher exploded right there. Not by a demned sight, he said, was his tamales. and he launched into all kinds of a knock at what he declared weren't fit for coyotes.
 oh. but you like tamales, all the same, ombrey.' said Earp in a tone of quiet conviction. You're a-goin' to like 'en tonight, anyhow. Moy's got a bunch of 'em fixed tonight that'n make your teeth leak you'll like 'em so much, and just then Moy. in obedience to a signal from Carlin, planted the steaming dish of tamales on the table in front of the Englishman who looked up in amazement.
 Why, what the dev-' he started to say, but when he saw the muzzles of Earp's and Carlin's guns within a foot of his head he suddenly broke off and his jaw fell. and he collapsed back in his chair like a man who's just read a bad telegram.
 "'Y'see,' said Earp. 'tamales Is a sort Q national dish down thisaway, ombrey and its jes' naturally the best thing for a man that lives in this here climate to eat, if you on'y knowed it. Now, you don't look just exactly on edge, so to speak, an it's with a due regard to your health, young man. that a few of i1s has decided that tamales is jes' what you need in your business. Which the same bein' the case, go ahead an git outside that pile O hot ones
 "Of course the naughty young En- glishman was on to the fact long before Earp had finished his speech that it was job. He had also figured it out, judging from the eagerness with which he began to chew up the plateful of ta- males, that there was nothing whatev- CT of frivolous or playful character in Earps little invitation, backed up, as it was, by the two long forty-fives in Earp's and Carlin's hands. Oh. he showed his sense at the critical moment in his career, all right. He began to eat those tamales likes as if he was dO- ing it for wages. Moy had made 'em as hot as that notorious set of hinges you've heard about but their heat didn't appear to bother the young En- glishman a little bit, except that he spu'ttered and gasped quite a bit. and reached over after every mouthful and gulped down a swallow of water out of the tin cup that Moy had benevolently provided. Earp and Carlin rested their guns on the edge of the table, still keeping them in line with the English mans head. however. while the rest of the gang at the tables leaned back in their chair and smoked reflectively.
 Well, how do they go, podner,' in quired Earp. solicitously after a long silence, when the young Englishman hod eaten about half of the mess of sizzling hot tamales. 'Gettin so you like om? Think they're good enough fur coyotes? Think you'd git so after a stretch that you couldn't naturally livs without tamales"
 me Englishman only went on mUnching his tamales. without making any reply.
 Let me see, remarked Carlin naturally stuck on tamales, only he won't own up to it. Ain't that the way you look at it?'
 Was jes' a-thinkin' the same way replied Carlin.
 Yep, he's jest bashful an sort O shy, y sec went on Earp, an don't want to compromise hisself by making out that he's stuck on such straight out American grub as tamales. At that, tamales is what the tenderfoot calls cultivated taste. Howsomever maybe this bunch O tamaIes that Moy handed out to the, Britisher may be some on the blink. and not up to Moy's high standard. How about haVin' Moy fix up some O the right kin O tamales an invitin' the Englishman aroun to look 'em over some time this evenin'?'
 Was jes' thinlIin hathaway myself , replied Carlin.
 50, after waiting for half an hour or so. Earp and Carlin walked back to MOy's and instructed him to have ready at o'clock that night the hottest mess O tamales that ever made a tenderfoOt ache to dive to the bottom of an ice pond. They told Moy he could put pint of cayenne pepper in the tamales if he wanted to- but that they had to be Fotter'n a Yuma pebble, whatever he put into em. They didn't tell Moy what they wanted to do with the ta- males, and Moy didn't do any asking about it, either: he merely grinned sagely and said that the torrid tamales 'ud be on tap at the hour stipulated.
 At half past : Earp and Carlin ran across the chesty young Englishman, seemingly in a purely casual way. and invited him to a nearby emporium de booze to poison up some. The English man went along with them. having enough sense to know that an invita- tion to drink is not to be carelessly thrust aside down in that country. Af-