Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-11-28

Say, IL you're referring to me,
Ag,' l says. it's kind Of sudden
spring. I amt what YOU might call in
training, and that steer is full of triple
extract of giant powder
"'G'wanr says Ag. You can do it,
and then we're twenty-five ahead
but suppose we loSe|
"'Well-- 1t won't he such an awful
loss
"Now, YOU look here, Agamemnon
/ G. Jones' SAYS |, / amt going to
stand for putting UP a summer breeze
4 agin that feller's good dough. That's
skin game, to speak it pleasantly
"Then Aggy argues the case with
me, and when Aggy started to argue
| you might just as well moo and chase
/ yourself into the corral, because he'd
/ get you sure Why, that man could
sit In the cabin and make roses bloom
| right in the middle of the floor. While
| he was singing his little song you
could see 'em and smell 'em. He could
talk snowbank off a high divide In
| the middle of February. Never see
\ anybody with such medicine tongue,
ger. Now he winds up, as for cheat
ing that Teller, you ought to know me
1 better, Red. Why, I'll give him my
note
$50. anyhow, | done It, Up the
street we went steer bawling and
1 huoly iyp,pine, my hoir a Hvfug anJ mo
as busy as the little bee you read about
keeping that steer underneath me
/ stead of on top of me, where he'd
ruther be, and after us the whole
\ town, whoopln', yellin'. cracllin off
six shooters and carry in on wild
Then we had $50 and was as good
as anybody. But it didn't last long.
/ The tin horns come out after pay day
! like hoptoads after rain. 'Twould
r1.z,e the government at Washington
to know where they hang out In the
meantime. There was one lad had a
] face on him with about as much eX-
| preston as a hotel punkin pie. He
run an arrow game, and he talked
right straight along in voice that had
no more bends in 1t than a billiard cue.
"'Here's where you get your three
for one any child may do 1t no chance
TO lose make your bets while the ar
row Of fortune swings all gents ac-
commodated in amounts from two bits
to double eagles and bets paid on the
nall says he.
Red says Aggy, L can double our
pile right here. Let me have the
money. l know this game You'd
hardly believe 1t, but l dug up. 'Dou-
BILE or quitsY says he to the dealer.
"Let her CO. says the dealer. The
arrow swung around. Quits says the
dealer and raked In my dough. 1t was
all over In one second.
II grabbed Aggy by the shoulder
and took him In the corner for a pri-
vate talk. L thought you knew this
gamer says 1.
al do says he. That's the way II
always happens And once more In
my life / experienced the peculiar feel
ing Of being altogether at loss for
words.
"'Aggy,' says l at last, I've got a
good notion to lay two violent hands
on you and wind you up like an eight
day clock, but rather than make hard
feelings between friends I'll refrain.
Besides, you are a funny cuss, that's
sure. One thing, boy, you can mark
down. We leave here tomorrow morn
ing
"'All right says Ag. This sporting
life is the very devil. l like outdoors
as well as the next man, when / get
there
$50 the morrow morning away we
went. All we had for kit was the
! picks, shovels and pans. The rest of
our belongings was staying with the
/ hotel man until we made q rise.
! Gag said he'd be cussed If he'd walk.
/ A hundred and fifty miles of stroll
/ was too many.
but we amt got cent to pay the
+ stage fare says l.
I Borrow 1t of Uncle Hotel-keep,
1 says he.
Not by town site,' says l. We
owe him all we're going to at this
very minute. You'll have to hoof it.
that's all
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