Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-02-26

CuI Iuc man ON the renee on
pretty sharp and would have whipped
up my horse, but he held up his hand
and said:
Terbacker has p'isoned Solomon
dead says /, and 1 went in the house
a-wailin'. It was an hour afore I had
the heart to go out to git Solomon
and take him off and bury him. and 1
jest about jumped out o my boots for
JOY men l see that he had turned
over onto his belly and was wrig-
glin'.
"'He skinned a pretty sick lookin'
eye up at me and shook his head
kinder as if he didn't care whether
school KEEP or not, but by and by he
started out and swan around some,
still in the arena, as it were, but
little off his feed. Next mornin'
though he was on hand as lively as
cricket and eat pound O liver and
three flannel cakes for his breakfast.
Seem that So1omon's health was
fair to middlin' after. his first chaw
of terbacker 1 cal'lated it wouldn't
be bad idea for me to sort O. ex-
pertinent on him. / sent and got O.
plug O. black navy terbacker, cut of
toler'ble good-sized chaw, and hand
ed it over to him.
"'He came up and took it exactly
like it was jest the thing he was
lookin' for. He sa'ntered to one side
O. the tub and chawed and chawed,
rollin' his cud from one cheek to
t'other and shown as plain as the
grin on his face could show it that
he was enjoyin' himself more than a
log-chopper at the circus with his gal
and pint O. peanuts!
Solomon had rarnt to chaw, and
he begged all that plug O. black navy
away from me afore night. 1t was
sight that drawed people for miles
to see Solomon layin' back and chaw-
in terbacker jest as juicy and jest as
KNOWN as if he was Squire Jagers
state Of the country, down to the
Geeville tavern.
but I didn't think that it was
jest the proper thing for a catfish,
that had a right from it's surround
ms to be brought up in the way it
should go, to chanter-b cker, and so
l set out to break Solomon of it, out
great dog hopple. I hadn't counted
ON Solomon's idees about it.
"'When I quit hand;n' him down
his regular chaw it upset his nerves
tremendous. He ripped and tore
| around in the tub like mad dog,
and his eyes laid way. out on his
| cheeks.
"'When he stopped for minute he
| clean over the top O the tub. Then
he took to buttin' his head ag'in the
sides O. the tub, and I see that un-
less he got ease pretty ding quick
| he'd have that tub over-runnin' with
brains that he'd knocked out of him
self. So I passed him down a
| chaw.
Solomon grabbed it and begun. to
chaw away. In less than minute,
mornin, and as contented as a cow
standin' up to her knees in the creek,
in the shadder of a big tree chawin'
her cud.
Ever sence then Solomon has had
to have his chaw of black navy plug
regular on the dot or die. We've run
out O. plug, cap'n. and can't lay in
none this side O. Geeville. Unless Sol
ONION gifts chaw afore long HE'LL
Il whipped up my horse and drove
on.
The man ON the fence hollered aft
| er me:
Say, cap'n! If you kin give me q
couple of clutches O that three-cen nj
long-cut blue paper smokin' O. yourn
mebbe / mowt coax Solomon through
on that!'
81 didn't answer him. / half be-
lieved he was liar. When / looked
back and saw him cutting himself of
a big chew from plug of black navy
tobacco 1 was sure he was."-N. Y
| Sun.