The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-12

7 "Once. feelin' some malignant myself, I
tries Jerry's patience out. I don't call
Jerry simply whoops Mules once or twice.
an lets it go at that. Jerry, when lie no.
tices 1 don't cali him none, lays his years
back; an although his r'ar elevation is
toward me, l can see he's hotter than a lady
losin' money. The faithful Tom abides with
Jerry; though he tells him it's feed time.
an that them others with a nose bag on
each Of 'em Is already at their repasts.
| Jerry only gets madden an lays for Tom
an tries to bite him.. After ten minutes,
sullen an sulky. hunger beats Jerry an he
comes chargin' into camp like a bari down
hill. an eases his mind by wallopin' beth
hind hoofs into them innocent mules. peace
fully munchin' their rations. Also. after
Jerry's let me put the nosebag onto him.
he reevarses his p'sition plenty sud- m an
lets fly at me. But nacherally | amt in no
trance. an Jerry misses. No, l. don't frale
him; I saveys it's Lecluse he felis so hoo
inflated, me not calm HIM by name that
time.
LAS a roole, me an Jerry gets through
our dooties harmonious. He can pull like
a lion an never flinches or fiickers at u
pinch. It's shore a vict'ry Jest TO witness
| the heroic way Jerry goes into the collar
at a hard steep hill or some swirlin'. rush
in ford. Sech bein' Jerry's work habits.
I'm prepared to overlook a heap of small
moral deficiencies an never lays 1t up
as'in Jerry that he's. morose an repelIent
when l fngs him ahy kindnesses.
But while I don't resent EN- none by
voylence, still Jerry has habits ag'inst
which 1 has to gyard. You-all recalls how
long ago I tells you Of Jerry's bein' a thief.
Shore, he can't hep it: he's a born KEEP
timaniac that away: Leastwise 'klepto-
maniac Is what Colonel Sterrett calls 1t
once when he's tellin' me of a party who's
afflicted similar. back in Texas yonder.
"'Otherwise this we're GENTS a heap re-
spectacle says the Colonel. Morally
speakin'. thar's plenty who's worse a whole
lot. OF course, SEEM he's crowdin' 40
years, he amt SO plumb innocent. He amt
no debyootanty: still. he amt no crime
| wrung debauchee. / should say he grades
In between. But deep down in his system
this yere persons a kleptomaniac. An at
last this weakness gets its hobbies off. an
he turns himself loose an begins to take
things right an. left. No. he don't get put
in HUNTSVILLE: they sees he's locoed an
corrals him in one of them asylums where
thar's nothin' loose an little kickin' round.
an tlarfore no temptations
"Takin' the word then from Colonel Ster-
rett. Jerry Is a k~leptomaniac. I used for
mer 10 hobble Jerry. but one mornin' I'm
astounded to see what looks like snow sill
about my camp. Bein' she's in Joone, that
snow theory don't 60. What is It? Flour;
this yere kleptomaniac Jerry has done crope
to the wagons while l sleeps an gets away,
one after the other, with fifteen -ffty-pound
sacks of flour. Then he entertains himself
an Tom by p'radin' about with them sacks
In his teeth, sllakin' an tossin' his head,
an powderin' that Pride of Denver all
over the plains. Which Jerry shore frosts
the sityooation plenty nbral
IT'S the next night an I don't hobble
Jerry; I pegs him out on a lariat, What 90
you-all reckon now that miscreant does?
Corrupts pore Tom. who, OF course, Is SYM
pathizin' round all night. an makes Tom
go to the wagons. steal the Hour an pack
it, out to. him where he's pegged. This SEQ
pine Tom-who, nachera1. Is the soul Of in
tegrity that a-way-abstracts six sacks for
Jerry, an. at daybreak that wretched Ter
ry's standin' thar white a frost himse'f.