The sun., 1901-08-11

the innocent: looking chap. This un Is
Sprout Hill Dandy: That un yonder IS
Pride O. Peach Holler. Here laws Harti-
scrabble Dan. This beauty is Pepper
cotton Sal. Line up. there. the huh cl-
Doodle Of your
Then Jim Bennett says the sn,k,s
all moved up in line as regular as soldiers
and their owner hollered TO EN-:
Now, gol darn ye, blowr
Jim Bennett says the whole six of the
snakes fiattened themselves out and se 1t
forth combined current OF air TIT
sounded like two locomotives blowing OF
steam. and 80 strong that it lifted a news
paper OF the floor clear on tho other 81,
OF the room ten feet away. Then tie
innocent looking chap hollered
Pochuck Pete! Blow eastr
Then Pochuck Pete, Jim says moved
out OF line, turned his head toward tho
east. and blew.
Blow north Jim says the snak,
man hollered. and Pochuck Pete veerci
promptly to the north and saluted that
point OF the compass with lusty puff
Fall in hollered the innocent -lookiry
young chap, and Jim Bennett declares
that Pochuck Pete fell back into his pla /,
In the line as good as regular soldier cou d.
Then the snake man ordered Har-
scrabble Dan TO go out and show whe',
the west was, and Hardscrabble Dan went
toward the occident. blew a piping blasJ.
and fell back into line.
Peppercotton Sal, you beauty, where's
your balmy south wind. gol darn yep jim
says the snake man hollered next. AMI
Peppercotton Sal glided gracefully fortl
gently waited her breath toward the land
Of sun and alligators, and glided sinuousiy
back into line.
I could show you heap more o. things
this family O. blowin' adders kin do tho
snake man said, but | guess this II bs
enough TO let you see that blowin' addefs
knows at least little somethin''
And Jim Bennett says he couldn't do
thing but acknowledge il. The snai.s
man opened the bag and the blowing adders
went back into IL in the order that he called
their names, and George Westbrook got
down of Of the counter.
And that's the way you made that
dollar 80 easy, eh' said George. Showing
them snakes and passing the hat
Not exac'ly, said the innocent-look-
ing young man. the way Jim Bennett tells
II, But made it with them snakes. You
see. Sim Magee Is the blacksmith where (
come from, an Joe Bull is hoss trader.
Sim had job o shoein 10 do t'other day.
an Joe bet him $40 that he couldn't get il
done betwixt and 10 O'Clock, play or pa,.
This was the night afore the job was To-
be done, an by an by Joe see that he had
made a foolish bet, but Sim wouldn't ,ut
him back out. Next mornin' when SIN
went TO begin his job, he found that has
belluses was jabbed full o'holes, an they
hold wind no more than a CULLEN.
der would. went home an got Hard.
scrabble Dan, Old Succarunny, an Pride
o. Peach Holler SAY In less than ten
minutes had EN- givin' blast into that
forge o Sims that made it roar louder
than It had ever roared before, an We
turned out them Shoes an shod them hoss. =
.hree-quarters of an hour before the tir,s
was up an Sim won his money He gimme
hat dollar | broke a little while ago, an'
I was made easy.
"Then jim Bennett says the innocent.
ooking young chap went out, saying that
10 was going 10 Port Jervis with his blow
ng addcrs. No one has seen him In Port
Iervis yet, and I'm afraid he got OF Of tho
DAD. wandered up into Sullivan county,
md has been eaten up by some OF the rattlo-
makes they have up there. Jim BennetS
5 all cut up over II, he says