The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-24
CUSTAvE ECKSTEIN g. CO.

sound. and I put the things in the cabin.
There was little fireplace built of mud
and sticks in one end, with a chimney OF
split boards, and / built fire to git a bite
of supper.
CAS- / was standln' in the doorway feel
in kinder doeful I see man with pack
on his back comm up the trail. He was
stout and his face was pretty red, and
when he see me It got quite bit redder
He come up putin and seemed put out
bout something. and jest then 1t come
into my head that mebbe he was the other
Teller.
what you dom in that cabin? he
says, real cross.
MY residence at present. says !.
Won't you come in"
None o. your bIarsted SARGE wi me-
he says This ere Is my claim, and
want you to git off it directly
You're laborin' under slight mis-
take says l. This is my claim; but you
needn't be in a hurry bout goin'. Stay
till mornin', anyway. Darned IL amt
glad of company
We'll we talked awhile, and he KEEP
gittin' madden and madden.
" You've got the advantage of me now
he roars out. but If it want for that
bloody gun you've got so andy I'd put
you out o my cabin qulcker'n a wink
You needn't fret about the gum I
says Qd left 1t outside leann' agin the
cabin) why. I fired off both barrels at
some quail down here and / didn't bring
a mite o. ammunition with me-
"You carn't come It on me- he says
kinder sneerin. You'd like TO hentice me
to come on and then let me ave IT,
wouldn't you?
"Wel, take the pesky gun and see fer
Yourself 1 says, holdin' 1T out toward
him.
"No. you don't, old smoothly he says.
turnin' away.
leone in and have bite OF supper
anyhow / says. The waters biin' and
I'll make some coffee In jiny'
'IHe grumbled something, end went on
and camped under an oak tree little
ways Off That's the very tree down
there by the barn.
"I'd done my best to be sociable, 80
made my coffee and fried some bacon.
Some way twas kinder pleasant 10 see
the other feller's fire. but he looked
mighty crusty and didn't have a word
more to say.
after supper 7 lit a piece OF candle
and read a newspaper that I'd brought
from town, but ] got sleepy pretty quick
and spread my blankets in the bunk
shut the door and put "A prop agin it-not
that l was afraid. but Jest happened 20
think that | didn't really KNOW anything
about the other Teller.
II was Off TO sleep in minute. ana the
next thing / knew was seem big glare
of light and feelin' things gittn pesky
hot. | Jumped up, and, Lord II the whole
end Of The cabin want in ablaze!
"'Ciosh all hcmlock" says Hes
bad man and Is tryin' TO burn me up sure
as tho devils an Intun.'
"Rut lest then I heard on awful ham,
n,erin' on the door and the other feller
hollern':
".Glt up. you blarsted fool! DO You
want TO be cooked alive? Turn out, and
be id 10 you
"rhen / lodged that the fire had caught
in the old dry chimney. l bounced up
and grabbed the coffee pot and threw the
grounds on the conhagration, but 1t didn't
do q mite o good so | kicked away me
oroo and run out, kinder singed. pick
"a IN a long stick and began TO knock OIL
the boards that was afire, but the ldlot
that built the cabin had nailed en- on
from the inside and when KnocKeu en-
or they all tumbled inside, OF course. and
I had to run in ana drag 'em Out. and l
burnt my hands pretty bad. The other
eeller had been standin' off, laughin' kind
err sarcastic.
7 saws as he started back 10 his camp
'sich blamed carelessness never see,
he grows. You've got 10 repair my caOiu
or pay for It,
81 cut n few saplin's and set 'em up
agin the open end of the cabin. 1t was
moonlight, and l could see pretty wei.
Then ! crawled into the bunk again.
didn't prop the door this time. but l wish
cd had afterward. My hands hurt me 10
bad that / couldn't sleep, and turned
and twisted for an hour.
IAN at once / heard something. My
blood all turned 10 ice and my hair bristled
IKE a shoe brush. 1t was a soft, but
heavy tread, and a loud, hoarse breathin'
lust outside the cabin close to my head.
And then 1 smeit something like pig