The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-01-02
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and brothers and friends Of ours along
the creek on the lowlands we can fix
1t so they can't even bridge It,
ado You mean they can't cross orr
claim If we say they cantF
"'Sure thing" says Aggy. There's
you and me and the law to say mo
to that wish had ii gun
"'You don't need any gun for that
skunk of driver
"'Of course not, but there'll he pas
sengers and there's no telling how cX-
cited them passengers will be when
they find they've got to 60 over the
hills ford hunting
"'Are you going to send 'em all
around. AgT
1.-The whole bunch. Anybody com
Ing back from the digGlngs has gold
in his clothes, SO it won't hurt 'cm
none, and | propose TO give that stage
line an advertising that won't do it IA
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. II he's Il
decent Teller, well let him in on
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
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
gum
"T have that says the man My
dad used to be duck buntef on Ches-
apeake bay. When you say gun III
show you gun He dove in under
his bunk and fetched out what should
say was No. 1 bore shotgun, with
barrels six foot long.
"Gentlemen,' says he, holding the
gun up and patting 1t lovingly, If you
ram quarter pound Of powder In
each one of them barrels and hand
full of buckshot on top of that you've
got an 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
hundred yards away and let her do her
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 long
enough to heal busted shoulder
81 hope it amt going to be my pain
full line of performance to pull the
trigger says Aggy. i think the sight
of her would have weight with most
people. When's the stage due back?
"Day after tomorrow, about noon
"'That gives us lots Of time to stake
and to salt claims that can't show
cause their own selves says Aggy. 1
think we're all right
1.-THE next day we worked like the
old Harry We had everything fixed
up right by nightfall, and there was
nothing to do but dig and wait.
"Curious folks we all are, amt We?
should have said my own self that If
I'd found gold by the bucketful, Ia be
be in getting even with NUT that had
done me dirt, but it wasn't so. Per
haps it was because | hadn't paid
much attention to money all my life,
and / 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 in
your Uncle Reddy's line, and Aggy and
our new pard. White, seemed to take
kindly to it, also.
with innocent glee, it was when we
heard the wheels OF that stage coming
why, the night before l was woke
up by somebody laughing. There was
Aggy sound asleep, sitting up huggins
himself In the moonlight.
"'Oh, my! oh, my" says he. IT.
the only ford for 1000 miles"
1--WE planted a sign in the middle o
the road with this wording on 1t in bi;
letters, made with the black end of
stick:
NOTICE..
This and adjoining claims are the prop
erty OF Agamemnon G. Jones, Rad Saun
ders, John Henry White. ct al.
.Trespassing done at your own risl
Owners will not be responsible for tn
remains.
"There was a stretch of about mil
on the level before US. When the stag
come in plain sight Aggy proceeds
load up old Moral suaslon.' as b
called her, so that the folks could Sc
there was no attempt at deception
They come pretty fairly slow aft
that. At fiftS yards, Ag hollers Halt
The team sat right down on the
tails.
".Now, Mr.. Snick'umfritz,' says A
nv, you that drives, mean, COME he
and read this little sign
".Suppose l don'ti' says the fell'
trying to be smart before the passe
gers. -
ats a horrible superstition, 50
Argy. and the innocent will have
sufycr with the guilty. Then ne coz
the gun. -
wsf,od sakes! Don't shoot! yeiis
a sey passengers. Man. You ought
,,.,v.. more sense than to try ana