The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-29
.Huaoo indians a1sIetl's Corners
BY w. A. CURTIS.

..The crowd gathered around 'em. close
I'D. formin' a new circle away from 4the
be sket. but me and some other boys 100
small 10 push in and too big to worm
in We stood on the outside and Whlle
We heard the head magician say. TO be
sure, we did kill the pig, just as we 40
ON, boy. but we will make the pig awe
again. lust as we do the boy; While we
heard this we see. there behind the
crowd all loolzin' t'other way, all but u.s.:
we see that Injun boy reachin IN unoer
the basket and pulin' out somethiiis,
and putin it into the sheet Ihen ne
,-st.,ered the sheet into the shape OF
bar and ran off with it hangin' heavy
over his shoulder, across the square TO
a little old empty house the maglclans
was livin' in while they stayed at Lett $
Corners. He was back and had the sheet
all ready and empty before the dlsputln
was over and the maSicians wanted II
to throw over the basket. They done
it. mumbled awhile. pulled off the sheet
lifted the basket, and there was the pig
we'll as ever but with this difference,
this important difference. While 1t
weighed two hundred when it went I'M
der, t'warn't moren one hundred ana
twenty now Otherwise, it was the same
pig.
:. faint my pig said George Bort.
You've stole my pig
But there on the forehead was the
white X there was the white OFF hlnd
leg and the white near fore leg, and the
piece bit out of one ear. 1t was the
same zig. A dozen men sWore 10 me
marks.
They amt stole your pig l whis-.
pered to Bort, but they stole part of
him.
: GIVE me the proofs said he. ard I
told aim what saw and he said, we IL
ferret this thing out. Meet me here at
six this even
I'VE met at six. 1t was IN the 1all ana
pretty near dark at six. We sneaked
I'M to the magicians house and peeked
In a winder There they sat, eatin' spare
rib
..But Mr.. Gorsuch,' interrupted the
audience. NO Hindoo will eat pork.
They consider it accused. Why. there
was a great rebellion in India and thou
sands of men gave up their lives because
the British furnished the native troops
cartridges creased with hog lat.
"What are you tryin' to prove? That
them magicians wasn't Hindoo Injuns?
Well. they was. real. genuwine Hlndoo
tIniuns. not WGnnebagoes. Stockbrldses,
or Chippewas, but the real Hindoo IN
inns same. as a Holland Dutchman IS
the real Dutchman and German
Dutchman amt Well, they was eat'n
snare rib In the kitchen stove with
the even door open to cool Off. we see
porlS roast waitin for EN- when the spare
rib was eat up. and out in the lce-hoS
on the back porch there was Sixty poullua
of fresh pork.
..The butcher said he hadn't sold the
magicians any pork We drove out on
every road for a mile around town: NO
body had sold any pork or heard OF any
hog KILN anywhere:
They stole part of my hog. but
can't arrest EN- I can't specify no
crime There's my hog. whole as he
ever was, though eighty pounds lighter.
No court would find for me- said he, as
We parted for the night. but in the
mornin, I'll arrest EN- for giNln snow
without license
Next day, everybody knew how the
magicians had stole part of George
Bort's pig Bort stepped up and told
the head one he was arrested the min
ute the show begun.
:. You're the boss. These others are
your employees and not liable. so III Just:
arrest YOU said Bort.
...Yo,'ll never take me- said the
magician. and he threw forty feet Of
rope up in the air and Skinned along
s,,p as slick as a cat and was gone. How
the crowd laughed.
:. Our. great crook taker. the hero OF
many thrillin captures said Matt Hor-
ris, pointin' to George Bort standin' there
gapin' up at the rope. as 1T went sildln
up after the vanished magician and was
gone. Pretty soon there the man was,
sittin' over on the steps of his house
across the square. Some of the crowd
told Bort that so long as he couldn {:
hope to ketch the magician. there was
no use in disturbin' the show and spoil
in other folks fun by keep maxim him
break off and shin up the RAPE, so the
1nagicine come back. but he made the
crowd make n bigger circle and stretch
a rope around it, so Bort couldn't sneak
up and surprise him. Well, Matt Hor-s
ris jeered Bort. Said he'd give him back
the fifty he had won before and hun
dred more, fifteen gold eagles which ne
showed, il Bort would go under the bas-
ket like the pig had and tell how it
was. Bort hesitated. You could see
he was thinkin' how the pig had yelled
and how it must have hurt, but the pig
was all right now, barrin' loss of weight.
and the Injun boy who was carved up
two or three times a day, he was all
right and he never yelled any, neither
Then there was the money and the dare,
and the chance to retrieve himself for
bein' beat tryins to arrest the magician.
1t would help him git the sheriffship.
"s.I'u do it, said he, when suddenly
the meanin' OF some scraps of conversation
1 had heard between Horris and two other:
fellers. flashed over me and pulled him
aside. s.
:. Mat Horris has fixed it with Joe
Honx and Tom Annis to start a pretend
ed fight after you are cut UP under the
basket and when the crowd turns It's