Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-05-11

rap Sampson ana the rest tnteTfered.
After It was all over and Sim had
been released they stood about him for
some time, looking at him in silence
and with kind OF awe. To them he
had suddenly become a new man, and
they felt that they did not know him.
1t was Hicks who broke the pause.
"Why, SIM" he said, whats come
over you? Who'd "a ever dreamed Of
you doin SIGH thing as that?'
LET him keep his mouth shet an
quit alyin bout Loueesy, then" Sim
replied, not exactly in line with Hicks
questions. "I'll hit him ag'in IL he
dast to say SIGH another thing, an I'll
hit anybody else that does 1t, an I'll hit
to kill"
well, that's ell right, Sim, but you
Jest cool down now. Jim Thorn was
the only one that said anything, an
you've done hit him, so thar amt no
more to do, an you'd jest as well git
quiet"
my land, Sim, you shore hit him a
good unp' Jason said. "I never see a
purifier lick struck in all my life.''
CAR 1t was all done so quick" an
other observed. "Why, them words
wasn't much more'n outen Jim Thorn's
mouth till Sim was a-standin up here
an sayin, Jim Thorn, you are a liarp
Jest that Away. Then Jim starts to
run, an afore 1 knowed 1t Sim had
gathered him by the collar an give him
that lick"
"An wasn't it lick, thought Jason
said. why, say, it jest keeled Jim
over thar so quick that bet he never
knowed what done it."
81 bet he didn't know nothin touched
him-jest Topped down thar for all the
world like a shot hog. Didn't low it
was In you to hit Teller like that,
Sim"
lord, reckon Sim never knowed it
neither" Pap Sampson said, ''but he
knows it now, an you all better look
out. No matter how harmless a dog is
while he's asleep, he may be the wust
kind Of a dog when you wake him up.
An Sim Banks is awake now"
"An you'd all better not fool with
him If you don't want to git hurt"
Hicks added.
YOU'D all better not say nothin bout
Loueesy," Sim said, "less'n you all
wants to git your heads punched"
"Guess nobody hain't goin to say
nothin bout Loueesy." Pap Sampson
replied, $50 you thoughts we'll quit
a-throwin that at us. Jim Thorn had
no business to speak the word he did,
even II II had been a true word, an
most know ii wasn't, an you done right
an nat'ral to take it up, I'm peace
oIIa oil EnNxxy
an ingin' ally 1 set my face ag'in fussin
an foughtin, but 1 amt got nary a
word to say ag'in a man what fights
for his woman's good name. So / say,
Sim Banks, an say it open an above
board, you done jest right, an ever fair
minded man an woman is bound to say
the same"
That's what they are" Jacob Hicks
promptly agreed. MY land, Pap, you
uns all knows amt no hand to mix
up in no furse an that amt never fit
nobody in all my life, but you Jest let
some Teller say airy single word ag'in
my woman, an If the fur don't fly II
won't be my fault. Them's my senti.
ments ever time, an I amt a-keerin
who knows It,"
Course, Sim done right" another
said, with that ready sympathy people
are apt to feel for the victor as against
the vanquished. I'D "a done Jest like
him IL I'd "a been In his place, only
bet I'd "a laid Jim Thorn out SOS he
wouldn't "a got up no more FOR 6
month"
by granny" said another, At Tow
Jim got of pow'ful easy myself Il
were good thing 1t want me he had
to deal with" le
"An you can bet your hide It wal
moughty fortunate for him." remarked
a third, that 1t want rae"
Pap sampson thumped his can,
against the nopr, and Laughed.
''Yon uns are all a-talkin pow'fu
Big" he said. 'but you uns better NO
forsit that Jim Thorn amt dead yis
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