Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-11
Red Saunders
& HENRY WALLACE PHILLIPS
COPYRIGHT, 1902 & COMPANY
CHAPTER II.

lie pay tdlle up ike lIls. TA.Sl
they made the Chanta Seechee into
stock company; then the stock COM
pany put ali their brains in one think,
and says they. Wen make this man
Jones superintendent and the ranch
Is all right at once So out comes
Jones from Boston. Mass. and what
he didn't know about running ranch
was common talk In the country, but
what he knew about running ranch
was too much for one man to carry
around. He wasn't Il bad hearted fell
Ter in some ways, yet on the whole he
felt it was an honor TO looking glass
to have the pleasure of rejecting him.
Looking glass? | should say he had!
And IL bureau and Il bootblacking jig
ger and a feather bed and curtains
and truck in his room. Strange fellers
used to open their eyes when they saw
that room. 'Hello-o-o" they'd say.
Whose little birdie have we hereT
And other remarks that hurt our feel
ings considerable. Joncsy. he said the
fellers were a rank lot of barbarlans
He said it to old Neighbor Cases face,
and he and he old man came together
like Il pair of hens, for JOnesy had
sand in spite of his faults. That was
fight worth travelling to see. They
covered at least an acre OF ground:
they tore the air with upper swats and
cross swipes: they hollered, they jump
ed and they pitched. and when the diff
ficulty was adjusted we found that
JOnesy's coat was painfully ripped up
the back and Neighbor Case had lost
his false teeth. One crowd of fellers
patted Jones on the back and said,
Never mind your coat, Old horse;
you've licked a man twice your age
and the other comforted NeighbOr, say
ing, Never mind, Case, you can ease
your mind by thinking how you headed
up that rooster and he fifty pounds
lighter than YOU
"Jonesy put on airs after that. He
felt he was hard citizen. And then
he had the misfortune to speak harsh
ly to Arizona Jenkins when Old Dry
Belt was In liquor. Then he got roped
and dragged through the slough He
cried like baby while | helped hin
scrape the mud Off. but not because
he was sea ed. No, sir, That little
runt was III of blood and murder.
"'You mark me now, Red says he.
the tears making bad land water
courses through the mud on his
cheeks. L shall fire upon that man
the first time | see him. VIII you
lend me your revolver?
lord, Zones, see here says |.
Don't you go making any such billy
goat play as that. Keep his wages
until he apologies. Put something
harmful in his grub; but, as you have
respect for the Almighty's handiwork
as represented by your person, don't
pull gun on Arizona Jenkins. THAT'S
the one thing he won't take from no
body
'D-d-darn him. snivels Jonesy. :.
amt afraid O-o-of him. and the
strange fac. is that he wasn't. Well
/ saw he was in such taking that
he might do something foolish and get
hurt, so | goes to Arizona, and says l.
You ought to apologize to Jones'
What Zony replied amt worth repeat
ing. And you along with him. be
winds up.
"'Now, amt that childish l says
a six footer like you that can shoot
straight with either hand and yet aim
got generosity enough to ease the feel
ings of poor little devil that's fail
busting with shamer
"'Well, what did he want to tell mt
to shut up my mouth for? cried Ole
Dry Belt. Men have died of less thar
that
Jaw, shucks, Zony,' l says. :
great, big man like you oughtn't t.
come down on a little cuss who's al
thumb hand side and left feet
That be bowed says he, only b,
says II different. I'd like to know
what business such u sawed off ha
to come and tell a full grown maj
like me to shut up his mouth. He,
ought TO stay in Il little mans plac
and talk sassy to people his own size
When he comes shooting off his baZo
to a man that could swaller him Who'll
without locsening his collar it's i'm
pidence; that's what 1t is
"'Well, as favor to me- l says.
"'Well, If you put 1t in that way
don't want to be small about it.
$50 Arizona goes up to Jones an
sticks out his hand. There's my hanC
Jones' he says. I'm mighty sorry 20
told me to shut up my mouth says b,
$50 am L. says Jones heartily, nc
taking In the sense of the words, br
feeling that it was all in good inter
!. ton. So that was all right, and
stood In with the management In grea
shape for fixing up the fuss so plea:
ant. But it didn't last They say notl
Ing lasts in this world. There's som
pretty solid rocks In the Occur d'A
enc, however, and / should like I
wait around and see if they don't hol
out, but III never make 1t. I've bee
In too much excitement.
"Well, the next thing after Jones
got established was that his nice
must come out during vacation an
pay. him visit .'Jeerusalemv think
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