The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-24
A CREDIT TO HIS
~ HOME COMMUNITY



and ehswsd lt reAectivsly Tor Q moment
o. 90 before swallowing u. hut thsrO h
times when q man stands Zoe 10 loss money
BY not saickin' 20 q name alter he's done
used u long enough for TO be reco 'nized
by ia
.Oh. don't know.' said Mr. Owen
Pepper. -Mebbs II moughG turn out that
away sometimes. but I've knOwed O.
casns when the sIicksst thing q man en-
do IN for 20 gst holt Of q new name right
away
-Mors'n likely you haa.' returned the
old man soornfully. -Judgin' I'm what
Titles knOwed about you In Arkansas City
l IN d reckon you was more to home with
lailbircAs an sich n you be among law
ahidin' citizens. It's considerable of q
s'priss Ia me when I stop TO think On Z
what you ha'n't been run outen here mo-
frequent n you have been. Pears 90 mo
how Ne uns cd breathe . heap better II
you was TO stay away mo- n you do
oh. I don't know said Mr.. Owen
Pepper with q cheerful grin. Il was
just eoin' 20 ast you una 10 want time TO
LIQUOR. Pears like q little booze mou9ht
clear out 20 breathin' apparatus. 90 . Z
20 cd set round q spell longer
well grumbled the old man a. he
brought out a bottle and glasses. -bein'
a. 20 all In got up in the shape of human.
sense
yo' show II like yo' II shown % u nov,
though. = mo- nat'rAl for yo' to gawp
like an heave IN remarks bout what yo'
don't know.
-LAwd knows tn amt no doubt hut
what 20 don't know much. hut its kind
o. wcarin' on them Z has 10 hear about
Il 30 freausnt. Even a Wild ass o. tn
wilderness has to drink sometimes though.
an when he has the manners e. ask them
rs round for 20 drink with him an has
the price pears like its nothin' more n
plain Christian conduck for "a s'ply yo'
necessities.'
Pears tn me that's kind ~ r1Ibbin'
IL in on Pepper some harder n = called
for observed Jake winterbottom So
verely. 4 amt a-sayin' hut what he'd
Oughter be sot on occasional. Pears like
tn amt nothin else tn be did. But that
there Good Book yo' was mentionin' says
somepin' bout there bein' a proper time
f'r everythin'. Looks like faint no time
90 set on nobody when he's settin' EN-
up
oh. I don't know faltered the old
man in some confusion at the unexpected
rebuke bat he proved his sense % hunnor
when his hearers burst out laughing by
acknowledging that the next round was
on him.
-Speakin' o that there matter q names.
though he said after the bottle had been
put away. there was a gre't moral lesson
into what happened Pegleg Gasaoway
some years ago long o. mistooken jedg-
ment on his part a. % whether he'd take
chances on remAinin' q GaasoWay. like
he al'ays had been. ~ ny 90 some other
name what he knowed not on. as the
Good Book aays.
-Pegleg GAssoway was nigh about
the best short card player there was in
the hull state o. Mississippi when 7 was
Twin in Greenville. hut he was consid' able
vi'lent tempered. an 10 wouldn't LEI
even a game % poker interfere with a
fight IL he got good an mad bout the
leaste~t little thing.
Way they come 20 call him PegleR
was long o. him tryin' 20 kill a niger
when he were q little sawedon. no, more n
J or years old 'PeAr~d the Niger
aas-sd him. an he up with a knife an
jabbed At him.
o. co'se 10 he d been older he d knowed
how twAn'1 no Use To stab a Niger in the
hAid. bein . his skull d turn the knife.
but he was that mad he didn't stop to
think. II he knoWed. an he struck out
blind The knife glanced an he hit
hisself in the leg an went lame fr life
-'Peared like that mought a hem a
lesson TO HIM, hut want. They u~eter
Aay what he seen Anythin' rcd when he
got 'xcited. an there want no hOldin'
a. him till either him or t'other Teller
was licked proper Wust on Il was Z
he wouldn't stop at nothin'
He d use a gun or knife Y anything
else Z was handy. an he d fight till he
dropped Wonder was Z he want
killed. an he was later on. hut not till
alter this here remarkable happenstance
what I'm telhn' about.
MO n likely 10 he hadn't been SIGH q
credit TO the c'munity long q bein' a
heIlroarin' good poker player he d "a
got in trouble fr KILN three or To- citi-
nena afo' he was mo- n 80 year old hut
ben' 3 he on'y killed into a fair fight
there was allowances made There want
nothin' onderhAnded bout Pegleg Gasso-
way.
HE done some things too twas
reckoned a benefit 20 the c'mmunity
'Fo' he come to he known or 4 terror
there was mo or leas croasroads gamblers
usetsr come 10 0reenville an get away
with cOnsid able capital. but alter Pegleg
0assoway made xample o. one on EN-
by the name o. Bull Rider they got some
Scary. an bimeby they quit comm.
This here Bull Rider. he were one n
the wust o. the lot. an he done come to
Greenville nigh about ev'ry year just
a ter harvest, when everybody was flush.
till there was them Z said he'd oughter
be run oJten town onto a rail, but there
hadn't nobody sand enough for Go tackle
him. bein' az he was tol'Able well known
f'r a killer his ownself. not till Pegleg
Gaasoway got red headed into a game.
Him an Bull Rider was playin' with
two OF three citizens what had mo- money
n they had sense. an was ioain' the one
'thouten gsttin' much mo- q t'other. an
Bull an him was prosperin Accordin'.
just nAchully they didn't had no ser 'ous
criticism to make conceYnin' one another's
play, . long = them others vas seatin' in,
bein's they didn't want 10 be interfered
with. but a. ter these other fellePs dropped
out, long O. bcin' broke. u como down TO
a two handed game. an the two on EN-
vAs he'll bent on clean in up all Z van left
on the table.
That come Co q matter Of 500 OF $500.
an they vas both playin' f'r all they
knoWed. There want no doubt but they
was both good players. but some { was