Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-12-05

don't know how many miies-pernap
the whole length of her,?
"'Well' says I.
"'Our little placer claim says Aggy
slowly. rubbing his hands together
covers that ford. and by a judicioas
taking up of claims for various Uncle
and brothers and friends OF ours aloa2
the creek on the lowlanas we can e..
| 1t so they can't even brio Sc t.
ado you mean they can't cross our
claim If we say they can't?
"'Sure thing- SAYS Aggy. There.
you and me and the law to say NO
to that I wish | had a gum
"'You don't need any gun for thai
skunk of driver
"'Of course not. but there'll be pas
sengers, and there's no telling how ex-
cited them passengers will be when
they find they've got to go over the
hills ford hunting
"'Are you going to send 'em all
around, Agy
"The whole bunch. Anybody COM
ing back from the diggings has gold
In his clothes, so IL won't hurt 'em
none, and propose to give that stage
line an advertising that won't do 1t a
bit of good. Come along. Red. Let's
see that lad that has the shack up
the river We need something to eat
and maybe he's got gun. If he's a
decent Teller. we'll let him in on a
claim. Never mind about the hole.
! 1t won't run away. and there's nobody
to touch anything. Come on
$50 we went up the river. The
mans name was White, and he was n
white man by nature too. He fed us
well and was just as hot as us when
we told him about the stage drivers
trick. Then we told him about the
find and let him in.
NOW says Aggy, have you got y
gum
~ have that says the man. My
dad used to be duck hunter on Ches-
apeake bay. When you say gun" I'll
show you a gun He dove in under
his bunk and fetched out what should
say was No. I bore shotgun, with
barrels six foot long.
Gentlemen says he, holding the
gun up and patting 1t lovingly, If you
ram a quarter pound of powder In
each one Of them barrels and a hand
full Of buckshot on top of that you've
got ain argument that couldn't be upset
by the supreme court. I'll guarantee
that when you point her anywheres
within ten feet Of a man not over q
hundred yards away and let her do bel
duty, all the talent that that mans
family could employ couldn't gather
enough Of him to recognize him by
and you won't be in bed more'n Ions
enough to heal busted shoulder
81 hope 1t amt going to be my pain
full line Of performance to pull the
trigger says Aggy. L think the sigh
Of her would have weight with most
people, When's the stage due backT
".Day after tomorrow, about noon
"sThat gives us lots of time to stake
and to salt claims that can't show
cause their own selves says Aggy. :
think we're all right
"The next day we worked like the
old Harry We had everything fixed
up right by nightfall, and there wal
nothing to do but dig and wait.
|, "Curious folks we all are, amt We
should have said my own self that i
: I'd found gold by the bucketful, I'd b.
more interested In that than l would
be In getting even with NUT that hat
done me dirt, but It wasn't so. Per
haps it was because l hadn't pait
much atteAtion to money all my life
and l had paid the strictest attention
to the way other people used me. Liv
ing where there's so few folks ac
counts for that, suppose.
"Getting even on our esteemed
friend, the stage driver. was right il
your Uncle Reddy's line. and Aggy ant
our new pard, White, seemed to TAX
kindly to it, also.
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