The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-28

an waved its arm up an down ia the
air could hear them slice the air just
as plain as I hear myself a-tal6in' an
il bein' more'n seven mile 10 the next
cabin, 1 begun TO suppose I'd seen day
light an the little Denvereen for the
last time.
But the funniest part Of the whole
business wuZ yet to come. That durne1
ghost stead of wantin to fight. began
10 grow quiet an edge up clost by the
table. Then it pinted to them cards an
motioned for me 10 deal. I backed
away. I felt that clammy hand again
an / kind o. come for'ards again I
picked up the cards n started 70 shuttle
'em, though ] didn't know what on
earth that spOOk wanted ] dropped EN-
a time or two. fer my hands were kind
O. ven-upa-goin'. but that ghost shook
like a sheet ia the wind an blew them
cards outen my hand. picked EN- up
again an dealt a poker hand, an then
the old feiier Just settled down com
Portable like in his seat an begun 20
look at 'em pasteboards.
'Seeln' the spOOk wuZ d sOciabie cuss
an wuz perhaps the remains Of some
Teller who had died with his boots on,
kind o. felt a little easier. Then there
WIZ "a peculiar incident. All to once
I seed my hands were kind O. cold and
/ nUmb. Finally I got a hand O. seven
up a-gOin', my visible friend. The spOOk
pushed part of the money toward me
an began playin'.
Now. on ordinary occasions Pm a
purity fair poker player. an I been in
some mighty ticklish games from time
l. time, but I wuz kind O. nervous that
night an / couldn't play I laid down
the cards in some sort O. way whenever
the time come. an I managed to bet
when the time WIZ wrong until that
spoOk won every cent I had or expected
1 to have fer the next six months.
Now. that made me kind o. hot un-
! der the collar. an ] reached out and
/ took a firm holt onto that little pile o.
/ cash. That wuz where I made a mis-
I take. No sooner had I done il than
/ bling, sOmethin' hit me all over at ODCet.
7 never seed that ghost raise his hand,
( but he wuz a hitter from Hittersville.
an he want so slow fer his home
( town, neither. I can tell you that.
/ never got such a hit in my life. but
I comm from every side, the blows
/ didn't knock me down One kind O.
/ held me up agin the other and made
] 'em all bout steen times wOrser than
( they would "a been comm one at a
] time. Now, that hittin' WuZ over in a
Z blamed big hurry. but can feel it yet,
I an I sometimes kind o. lay this rheu-
/ matiz to that night an the hammerin'
I got
II wuzn't to be bluffed out by no
/ ghost, an froze onto that money. an
finally got it into my pockets. Then
1 there wuz some sure enough dOin's.
} That oil spoOk grabbed up both o. 'em
/ siE-sh0oters and that demijohn and
/ started CaVOrtin' arOun' the cabin. I
( don't know what KEEP the old guns
( loaded. but there want no end to the
/ shOOtin'. He KEEP a-pepperin' right al
! me, but / think them bullets must a.
/ been ghost bullets fer nary a one
| touched me. But it kept me a-dancin'.
/ an don't you fergit it. I KEEP a-goin'
/ arOun' that room at q two-siXty clip.
| a-jumpin' over the table an a-sknnin'
my shins on the bench. an a-crackin'
/ my face on the walls until I wuz blood
er than pack o hounds after meeting
/ up with mountain lion.
! Il knOWed there wuzn't but one thing
/ fer me to do. and that wuZ to git out
I o that cabin before J got perforated
an I made quick dig Ter that win
/ dow 7 went through. il with a ker-
! PUNK jus as the spOOk swung around
| IN the air. an / went like streak of
blue lightnin' out to where my bronchc
was staked. / could hear EN- bullets a
/ pcppin' an through the window / seed
a kind o greenish light. but 7 wuzn't
\ in any mood to stay and study ghost
/ tactics. In about two minutes 7 wuz
a-gin' cross them sand knobs 'Bouten
1 forty mile an hour.
Il KEEP on a-Tidin' till mOrnin', an
( then KEEP a-gOin' till I got back to the
( ranch I had visited I never tot the
Denver gal anything about my expert
! ence, an never went back to my cab
/ in to see what that spOok done to it. ]
amt. a-hankerin to know any more
! ghosts. but I'd like to find out If any
| body elset ever met up with a booze
| fightin' spook."-Chicag Inter Ocean