The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10

catcher Of the ingine lifted Hackaliah I'D
and pitched him ag inst the bank as if he ID
been shot out of 4O-pounder. The
ingine didn't seem to mind the shock bit
but went right on as il nothin' had hap
pened
THE emigrant trains in them days was
more than half a mile long. Hackaliah
Bascom had plenty O. time to consider
what was best for him to do. He felt some
thing like piece O meat might feel after
1t had passed through a sassage machine.
There's one thing certain says Hack
allah; 1 amt going to lay here all night,
and I'm blistered if feel much like walkin'
any further. l guess III ride the rest
O. the way on the emigrant. says he.
$50 he lacked himself up till he got on
his feet. The train was goin' twenty mile
an hour. When the hind car came along
Hackaliah Bascom made a grab for it.
He ketched it and got on. jest as sure as
sure as you're DRAWN beer for tibet Teller,
who is seemin'ly as dry as il he'd been
talkin' for the last fifteen minutes and no.
body hadn't said nothin'.'
The Gust omer who came in for the beer
got it and went out again. The manipu-
Iator of the cash register whistled I'm
Jonah Man, with far-away look In his
eyes. The man from toward Pochuck
CTachtu soItIt ulOi luSrIs dil1 Iesulucu.
-Hsckaliah ketched that hind car said
he, "and got on to the train as slick as strad-
din sawbuck. forgit how many stitches
the doctor took in him when he got home,
but Uncle David Beckendarter says they
had TO send to the county seat after more
thread.
Then there was the time Hackaliah had
the big runaway accident. He was watering
his no rises and stood right in front of EN-;
Some boy or other sot OIL firecracker and
49, tnl
-The old man-Hackaliah was oomin'
II :hen-grabbed this end o the wagon
tongue and throwed his feet up around it.
There he hung. The horses run for two
miles, when they fetched up ag.in the side
81 aS f Boseom WAN wenf sRt on HI sailed
through the air clear TO the middle OF
flve-acre lot. and lit on his head.
Now it wouldn't be natural to expect
that man O. his years. after setoh flight
and 60 to dancin' a honpipe Mr. Hacka;
liah Bascom didn't git up at all. He laid
there till some Of his folks went lookin to
see in What part O. the district he was, found
him; and picked him up:
and the doctor said the most likely thing
he could do to get Hackalieh on his pins
az lin was to trepan IL. So he pried out a
piece O the skull and sot an old Mexican
silver dollar in the place. Heckaliah got
"One day he went to town. While he
was there thunder storm came UP: Hack
allah Bascom had great way o setting
In one O. the big armchairs on the tavern
stoop, tippin' it back agin post. an goin'
to sleep.
"The thunder an lightnin' didn't prevent
him doin' this that day he went 20 town,
and besides, so Uncle David BeckenGarter
says. he had been lucky In rulinin' up agin
considerable O. the old stuff. He got his
chair a little too close to the edge o. the
stoop, and in his sleep his head got to rollin
over to one side. and pretty soon the chair
lost its balance and kerplunk! went Hacka-
liah to the ground. four feet below.
"Thc concussion knocked the silver dollar
out O. the cd chaps topknot, and II rolled
out on tho ground. Hackaliah jumped TO
his feet The first thing he saw was the
silver dollar He picked 10 up:
"'Sizzlin' John Snodgrassf says he.
What clap that was Struck the bank,
didn't it,
.Thsy fixed Hackaliah up all right. and
he gave the dollar to Uncle David Becken-
darter. Uncle David gave It to me for .