The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-06
Richard hollered out. as pleasant as could

Richard hollered OUT, as pheasant aS cooiu
be:
I'll hello pop your says Uncle David
and he went into the house 70 mad that
guess he'd got his gun and finished the
crows without waitin for night if he hadn
met Aunt Sally, lookin all tickled to pieces.
What do you think, David| says she.
Them crows must a brung the city gal s
| watch back, for she found it minute ago
| on her bureau, jest where they took it
FRONT
And sure az green apple gripes, so they
had! Wal, Uncle David didn't make way
with them crows that night, nor he didn't
make way with 'em at all, fur from that
day on they never stole another thing
Richard, so We thought, had talked to that
mate of hisn, fur he see plain enough how
things was headin', and they brought back
that watch and reformed on the minute.
Richards mate, though, had an idea that
it could lick anything that crawled, ran or
flew, and one day he tackled new game
! rooster that Uncle David had brought
home, and in less than three rounds Richard
was left to run the crow end of that farm
alone.
"A year ago Uncle David's boy Pete got
married and moved on to a farm mild
and half from the homestead. Richard
was fond of Pete, and he went along to
live with him on the new place. He come
regular every UlOTHUl DdCh 10 Illc
though, for a little visit, and always greeted
Uncle David with his familiar Good morhin'
pop He gen ALLY stayed an hour or so,
lookin' things over to see If they was run
mir all right, and then would 60 back home;
"One day last week Richard appeared
at Uncle David's good deal earlier than
! usual, and almost knocked Uncle David
dowG in his tracks by hollerin' out
Good mornin', gran'pop!
"Richarl Chuckled and CrOnked, and
every little while would holer out, with a
vim he never showed before, Good mornin'
granpop Gran'pop! Gran'pop!' maxim
Uncle David most bust a-laughin' after he
got over his fust knockout, and wonder
whore in tarnation the consumed crow
picked that up An hour or so after Richard
got to Uncle David's up come young Pete
lookin' pleased all over.
"'Well, pop says he, there's three Of us
down there now. INCEST boy you ever see,
the thi I'd one is, and everybody doin'. fine
And now to think that Richard is dead
and particularly the wav he hi ppcncd to
die, Since he went down on Pete's farm
he took o helpin' drive the COWS 10 pastur,
nippin' their heels like fire when they didn't
step TO sui him. There was brindle COW
among them and day before yesterdS y
when Richard was tendn' to things at
Uncle David's, young Pete swopped the
brndle off fur another one that looked
more snap TO her Richard didn't know
anything about the dicker, and when he
went home and found the brindle COW in
the COW yard inst cad of the pastur', where
he 'sposed he had drove her in the morning
he pitcl ID in TO nip her heels and take her
there. But the new biindle wasn't used "a
such doin's, snd she shot out one hind loot
and sot it az ia Richard so heavy that he
/ never breathod sg'in.
"Now then There was Richard That
WIS him You've heard about him, End
that Is weiphtin' the Beckendarter family
down heavier IL ton Of lead has a right &c
! he weightin EN- down, I'll have to size
you up az ben' 81 tony hearted, and as scarce
OF the milk of human kindness as a sidehi
plough' | will sol"
sized no for nothing was said; but the
Pochuck man went away apparently much
cheered up