Arizona republican., 1900-09-24

ness that was not extended to other tenjerfeet. Moreover, the young Brit isher was a good deal on the domineer. He had habit of ordering other folks around. He seemed to have the mi crobe that 1t was up to all hands to jump and knuckle their foreheads when
 he passed the word. and he was quite a
 lot on the bulldoze in his dealings with people whose jobs compelled them to stand for his cavalierly way of hand ling the game He'd stand off and
 abuse a poor devil of a chink like fury i if the slant-eye didn't have his wash done on time. and he was full of little tricks like that. Now, this sort of thing don't go in a camp like Tombstone. where every man, white. black or vel low. is as. good as another. so long as ne shows no particular inclination to hog the plant. The boys got to noticing and commenting on the young fellows naughty way of throwing himself. and then it was about up to the young man
 to get the jolt that he soon got. "One afternoon he walked into the i feed shack of M7y Sing. as square a ChinG Is ever wore hair in a plait and demanded some tamales. He announced loudly that he'd never triea the miser-
 able trashy things, but that he hadn't found anything else fit for dog to eat in Tombstone, so that he might as well experiment. He demanded that Moy step lively about getting the ta7nales ready, and in general he lugged in lot of personally conducted talk and con- duct that sort Q made Virgil Earp and Frank Carlin. who were peaceably par taking of their ham and GEES in the | back part of the shack. twist some in their chairs. Virgil and Frank looked a long time at the Englishman and 1 then they looked at each other, but they didn't say anything. They just | tossed around in their chairs some. as
 l say. and carved their ham kind O soitefully, and listened to the young 1 Britisher a-shootin' off his mouth piece
 Well. Moy Sing got the English mans tamales ready in good time. and served 'em. Now, the throwing togeth-
 CT of tamales was one of Moy's fancfest Frafts. He could cook any old thing so , that it would taste t01thsome to a man put up the right way. but he was a sure enough ace when it came to the mat ter of tamales. Whats more. YOU could entertain a certain feeling of con- { fidence while slowing away Moy's ta- i males, which is more than could be said of a whole lot of other Chinks far ther north and west: mere than could 7 he said for the tamales put up by the
 Chinks of San Francisco. for instance, i where surrepttiously slaughtered sea gulls used to enter into the composition of the tamales. instead of proper chick en. There wasn't man in Tombstone
 that didn't whack Moy Sing on the
 back of his blouse fer his hot tamaIes. "COnsequently when this young man , from th7 other side took little nibble at one e. The tamaIeS Moy had dished , uD for him, and sniffed at it. and then
 deliberately spat out the morsel at the
 same time making use of lot of cuss words bearing on the 'flthfness of the
 conf0unded things the warm blood If
 Earp and Carlin began to course
 through 'em on the double. and it was
 all they could do to keep from putting
 it right there. But they only glanced . eXpresstvely at each other again and
 went on with their repast. Meanwhile
 the Britisher demanded AIoy Sings eye
 and ear and divers and sundry other
 portions of tba surprised Chink's anat-
 omy, and demanded Moy to remove the
 'tiIidltS stiiu liIIOW Sln Into the QlScarQ
 barrel in the rear of the shack
 Presently Virgil Earp and Frank
 Carlin got up from thsir table. after
 having finished their repast, paid M0y
 what was coming U him and then
 walked over to where the Englishman
 sat tuning.
 ." So you don't like the Chink's tama-
 les, eh. podner?' said Earp, heartily.
 ''fhe young man from the British
 Isles replied that he was demmed if he
 did. and that moreover it had him go- , ing how any white man could fool with
 the things.
 ''Wel, their purty poplar round this
 camp, ombrey. as I s'pose you know,
 said Earp, picking his teeth compla-
 gently.
 '''rhe Euglishman didn't care tup- pence how popular they Were: they wern't popular with him. he said. and he'd be pretty glad when he landed
 somewhere or other where he could get something fit fer gentleman to eat.
 'Earp and Cnrlin didn't appear to
 want to argue the matter. They strode out.
 "'Hey, pal said Virgil Earp to Car 1 lin, when they got outside, dye know that l think that lime-juicer is just