Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1901-03-22
| HOW OLD NAN HAINES /
LOST PATIENCE.
Observation-Disclosures

The red gentleman with the feathers
IN his hat and the telegraph wire
bracelets became too importunate In
his demands for cigarettes, and as he
had been detected in the act of appro.
printing q wooden handled skinning
knife, valued $1.50, FIVE minutes be-
fore the post trader walked around the
counter and kicked him energetically
out OF the store and half way around
the hay corral 1t spoke volumes for
the post traders activity that he was
able to do this, for II is no easy matter
to keep within kicking range of a prop
erly scared Crow Indian for the dis
lance that he covered, TO say nothing
of performing the act itself There
fore the post trader was GREATNESS
when he returned and had to lie on the
counter with his head on a bolt of pink
striped calico to recover himself. The
old bullwhacker, who had been watch
Ing the race from his seat on a nall
keg, with a grin on his wrinkled ma
hogany visage. complimented the ad-
vance agent Of commerce on bis
achievement
81 wuz suthen OF foot racer myself
when I wuz younger an limberer than
what am now" he said, "but / dunno
that ever seen the time that / could
have done better than that. I'm re-
gardin it purely as a physical feat,
however. I'm not sayIn that you
showed q strikin amount of Judgment.
When Young Man Afraid of His
Breechclout has got you knotted up
with green rawhide an the squaws are
fixing the fire fer the grand barbecue,
mebbe you will regret your pernishus
activity an cuss the day that you hum
bled the proud spirit of the noble In
Jun warrior. Is this shebang insured 2"
You was never introduced to me-"
reJoined the post trader. 'T've got
half inch OF callous on the soles of my
feet, an 1 come into this country from
the headwaters of Bitter creek along
or j. w. Hancher an Ed Phernetton an
the rest OF them desperadoes. I've got
relatives by marriage among the Crows
and Ogallalas, an I've drunk more al
Kali water an eat more dog an buffalo
berry than any white man this side of
the big MizZoura. l didn't bring nv
outfit in here In the spring OF 80. What
did you expect me to do - give that
greasy, tin tagged coyote my stock of
cigarettes to keep him good tempered ?"
IAN IL You had you wouldn't have
forfuted his friendship" returned the
old bullwhacker. LAS IL is I've got an
idee his heart is bad. an he won't come
an see you no more. An Injun has got
his -feelin's the same as a white man
has. an ] reckon you would git hostile
II any hombre booted you from blazes
to breakfast because you asst him fer
the means OF soothin your nerves. You
inferred that Crow In a sensitive spot.
Ike"
II done my best to-" said the post
trader.
He may belong to the Badface band
an have hair In his tepee." continued
the old builwhacker in the same grave
tone OF reproof, ''but at the same time
he's human. an as a human It's your
play to extend the right hand of Teller
ship to him instid of the sole Of your
number nine. Hain't they got no Sun
day school liberties out on Bitter
creek? Hain't you never read about
the settler who found q poor, starin
redskiIlseut in the snow plum exhaust
ed an look him inter his shack an fed
him up a whole lot an warmed him an
then turned him loose with a grub
stake, ar when the Two Kettle outfit
exhoomed the tomahawk an raised
merry Cain Rcalpln On burnin through