The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-11-25

eral superintendent to manage the
match. and we picked out nice quiet
place over in Brands hOller, where
there was a moOnshine still once. and
nobody had ever been there since the
revenooS had scattered it TO the four
winds and wasn't likely to go. it was
SO dern lonesome In course we swore
everybody to eternal secrecy. but there's
no tellin' how leaky bari is till you
put water IN it. Anyway we was on
hand prompl, fer we meaLt business
didn't we, AIiltY''
'Ruther, reckon" responded Mr.
Burgess to Mr.. Hostetter's appeal. "And
we wasn't no towards neither"
Much obleeged, Milt." said Mr.. Hos
letter gratefully. "As | was sayin'
we was there prompt, and the general
superintendent ranged us up about
twenty feet apart and give orders that
we was not to shoot till we got the
word Fire" after he had counted three
and drapped hat"
There wasn't no foolishness about
it neither" put in Mr.. Burgess. fer
me and Hi seen to it that they dida't
put up no job on us by not loadin' the
guns right. fer when they handed them
to us. sayin they was all right. we
poured handful of duck shot in each
bar'l SOS there wouldn't be any mis-
takes
Much obleeged, Milt," said Mr.. Hos
letter las | was sayin, we was to
shoot ut the word. and we stood lookin'
Mt each other with murder stickin' out
all over us till you could "a scraped it
off with a chip When a man is bad
in love, he's the wust, | reckon. Any.
way, we never said word; no hand
shakln'. no nUthin; just cold KILN
was what we was there fer. and we
was goin' to have it, Our seconds
kinder dallied around us if they was
waitin' fer sancthin', but we stood
there waitin' fer the word to shoot
1T gives me goosetiesh to think about
| it even this fur Off" commented Mr..
Burgess. with shiver.
| Much obleeged. Milt." nodded Mr..
Hostetter in full sympathy with his
| late antagonist AS | was sayin'. we
| stood there waitin with our guns
cooked and -drawed tight to our Shout
| ders. and the general superintendent
begun to count one two three, and we
| tuck sight with intent to kill The
superintendent stopped at three, hold
in the hat ready to drap and say
Fire" when all to once there was q
rustic in the bresh. and Mirandy come
bouncin through and landed smack be-
tween the muZzles of the guns"
"Dern If | didn't think it was an
angel drapped out of the sky" ex.
claimed MIR. Burgess feelingly
Much obleeged. Milt." responded Mr.
Hostetter. las was sayin', Mirandy
landed right betwixt us and throwed
up one hand.
"'What air you plumb lifts goin' tc
dor says she. lookin' first at one of us
and then at tother.
"'Goin' to shoot each other said the
superintendent bowin' low.
"'What fer? says she, lookin' at US
"'Fer you says l.
Fer you,' says Milt.
''Then she laughed so loud and kind
er raw that it shuck the bark off 6
hickory tree standin' jist by the edge
of the clearin'
"'Well, gentlemen says she, startin
to git out of the way and talkin' IL
reg'ler book langwidge and as perlit,
as basket of chips, don't let me In
terfere with the festivities, but befor,
actual hostilities begin | think | ow,
it to each of you to say that you haC
better go over to Pleasant Ridge frs
and Shoot John Henshaw. for am go
in to marry him next Tuesday week
Providence permittin. Firey
"Mirandy stood lOokin' at us. the su
perintendent snorted, the seconds lai(
down in the weeds and rolled over ant
me and Milt shuck hands and walked
off the field, not sayin' dern word t,
nobody, and we didn't go to the wed
din neither"
ITS a affydavit fact, gents" corrob
GRATED Mr.. Burgess.
Much obleeged, Milt." said Mr.. Hos
letter. ''It shore Is"