The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-07-15

stated that at present Shines wife
/ is visiting her sister who lives in |
Sorrow Hollow and Slime is patching |
it. After Sine had warshed the bot |
tie out clean he fitted the cork to
it, put it inside his outside coat
pocket, put on his hat and blowed
out the light. Presently Seth heard
Sine come out the front door and
snukking around looked past the cor
I ner of the house. Slime looked up
and down the street, lit his pipe and
then walked briskly off with Seth
logging his footsteps.
Sine went straight down street
until he come to Bill Hepburns
blacksmith shop, then he stopped
and looked all around agin, then
went behint the shop and knocked
three times at the back door. From
the outside the shop was APPARENTLY
dark, but presently the door opened
Sine went in and Seth saw that the
little wheelright shop in the back
end was all lit up. Then the door
closed and Seth heard the bolt shoot
back into place.
Seth then snuk UP 10 the door and
peered through the keyhole. While
his eye was glued to the keyhole he
seen Sine hand Bill the empty bottle
and seen Bill fill it from a gal. Jug
which Bill took from a box and then
seen Sine hand Bill fifty cts. and
heard Sine name the amount. Seth
was also considerable surprised to
see Deacon Bradbury setting inside
slipping rum from a small glass.
This was enough evidence for Seth,
who knocked boldly three times on
the door, Presently Bill opened the
door and before Bill could close it
again Seth stepped inside
Bill looked considerable surprised,
but tried not to look guilty. Seth
bid all hands good evening and set
down. The Deacon who had the glass
in his hand half full of rum dropped
glass and rum into his coat pocket
and the rum leaked through and
dripped on the floor.
Seth asked Bill if he happened to
have any liquor by him at that pres
ent moment being as Sam Winters
little TOmmie was sick and Doc Liv-
ermore had prescribed a tablespoon
full of hot whiskey. Bill said good
ness, no, he hadn't had a drop of
rum on the premises sinst a fort
night back. Seth then asked the
Deacon what that was dripping from
his coat tail, blud? The Deacon !
squirmed around and said no it
wasn't blud, it was some medicine |
he got for his wife and he reckoned |
he had went and broke the bottle. |
gosh-ram it! Seth then asked Bill |
what he KEEP in that box Git was the !
box which Bill had put the gal of |
rum back into) and Bill said he KEEP |
a pet snake in there. After Seth |
had KEEP them in agony for some |
time he riz to his feet and said |
Gents, it amt no use to lie to me- |
| Bill Hepburn, you are a rum seller !
and a undesirable citizen. and I'm !
going to put the screws to you-you |
kin all three of you consider your |
sells under rest. Might as well !
come along peaceable being as I !
don't wish to be vilent unless | haft !
! to-"
I What happened after that was aw-
full. Bill hauled off and hit Seth a
turrible belt alongside the head with |
| his open palm. Seth turned corn
| plete summerset and fell all in a |
heap into pile of wagon tires, |
where he laid unconscious Bill was |
then scairt he had killed Seth, and |
went and lifted him up and drug
him to the light Soon as Seth |
opened his eyes there was Bill right |
beside him with a tumberful of Ticker !
and said, Drink this, Seth-quickl |
| Seth he was all dazed and gulped |
down the Ticker before he realized I
what he had did. and by that time
! he didn't care. Bill asked Seth how
he felt, and Seth said alright, except |
his face ached him turrible. Bill |
! then apologized to Seth, and Seth |
| forgive him-Seth also forgive the |
| Deacon and Slime, who hadn't did |
nothing to him to be forgive for
Seth said that Ticker tasted awful |
good, and he calkilated it had saved |
his life. Bill then offered him an
other tumberful, which he swalered |
on the spur of the moment After |
Seth had drunk this he soon become |
helpless, and about 10 p. m Bill |
| logged him off home, left him at the |
front door. knocked and then ran.
| When Seths wife found him in that |
cOndishion she was turrible shocked. !
and, while Seth was under the in
/ tioOence, he told her ali the pertick-
lers, and then forgive her too. Be |
ing a woman, Mrs. Dewberry couldn't |
keep the secret, which she told to |
Jemima Perkins in confidence, Je- !
NINA told it to our wife in conf !
dence, our wife told - to us in con- |
fidence, and we tell it in the Bugle |
in confidence
The moral to this is, that if you !
want to advertise tell your wife in |
confidence.