The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-30

Billy thought was derogatory to the ledge
well, Billy want goln' to have his fathat
insulted That's all theah was to that
So he pulled his boss pistol out OF his hip
pockets and commenced to shoot.
The streets was putty full of people at
the time, but when the battle was ovah, and
1t was ovah in less time than I'm takin
to tell you about It,. theah want nobody
theah but Billy and the dead and the dyin'-
Billy standln up theah with his little side
whiskahs, lookn' TO- all the world laik a
little Presbyterian preacher, surrounded
by his victims, and that was all.
Now, do you know what they saidS
They couldn't let Harrodsburg alone. No.
They couldn't. Seems laik they've got a
special pick at that theah town. They said
that Billy Baxter was Dawn and raised
theah on the Shelbyville pike, about TO
miles out OF the town, measurin' from the
i don't know how much truth theah
was in the statement, but that was what
lThen theah was that fellah way down
in Texas. You remembah the fellah Jim
Chinoweth used to tell about, what had
killed about five or six men when he fust
met him and he forgot jest how many aftah-
waro2
You remembah Jim Chinoweth2 Lived
right across from you theah In Harrodsburg
on the Lexington pike
H.,
aroun on some bizness or othah when one
night way in the middle of the night, theah
come tap at his do.
MARS jim whispahs a voice. 1t was
his body servant, niger what stayed with
him aftah the web, he was SO fond Of him,
servant till he died, he and was. 1heah
Is lots on EN- in the South laik that. You
know that as well as l do.
Mars jim whispahs this voice, git up
about Mars Tom Tom Brown, the fellah
that had killed his six tn man. He's in a
peck o trouble the niger finishes, -,
Whats the mattah with him9' inqui red
Jim Chinoweth.
Hes done killed anothah man, Mars
Jim. the niger answahs back, an he's
In a peck o trouble, cause this amt Ken
lucky, you know, Mars Jim. This Ia Texas.
.'All right says Jim Chinoweth III
be right down, 8 soon 3 kin git inter my
clo'es.'
We'll, Jim he hurries on with his clo'es
and goes out In the dark with his ole body
servan and comes to Tom Browns sto e.
little sto' wheah he sole groceries. Theah
he foun' Tom Brown in attitood Of deep
HE was bent ovah double he had his
elbows on his knees, Jim said, and his chin
in his hans. He sutt'nly did look. Jim said
as if he was in peck O. trouble.
whats the mattah, ,Tom?' asks Jim,
IccIlu loi he ioohci ~ SAL
"a fellah come In heah,' explains Tom
without lookin up. and gifts to talkin'
around putty sassy. and I Jest raises up
on the head without sayin' word he falls
down dead in his tracks. And / didn't do
nothin'. tall but give him Jest the least
little bit of tap on the head
Jim fell to studyin' tn situation.
What you think ] bettah do, Jim2
asks Tom Brown. DO you think I'd bettah
step ovah into the Territory awhile, until
the excitement's ovah?'
dim studies ve'y thoughtfully.-
-. No. answers he by IN by, I don't
Jest tapped him little tap on the head,
II was you I'd stay and see II out
well, Tom Brown he followed his ad-
Woe and saw 1t out
4Howsomever, the excitement It run
putty high, because it want Kentucky,