Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-15

your head the way | tot you. Now
snap II. dash you! Snap 1t till you
git through bein scared OF il. Do 1t
now. or. by gosh. I'll chase yon over
the side of the boat and feed you to
of n be thing
MY good woman" said |. do you
mind telling me what Is your manner"
Names Mandy McGovern. and !
come from Pike" she answered. nj.
most before the words were out Of my
mouth. I've been merried three
times. and my first two husbands died
a.nghtin' like gentlemen in difiikilties
with friends. Then along come this
Danny Calkins, that taken mp some
land nigh to me In the bottoms-lOw
downest coward OF man that ever
disgrnced the sile of yenrth-and then
merried him"
rs he dead. too. my dear woman
| I asked.
Don't you 'denr woman me
amt free to merry agin yit," said she.
Nav. he amt dead. and amt dee.
| vorced either. Just done left him.
| Why, every man In Pike has whipped
Danny Calkins one time or other.
When man couldn't git no reputation
any other way he'd come erlong and
whipped my husband got right
tired OF II. And me the wife OF two
real men befO' then! had eight
chillen by my two husbands that was
real men, and every one OF them died
or got killed like n man or went west
like man exceptin' this thing here.
the son OF that there Danny Calkins
Why. he's afraid to go coon huntin' Mt
night for fear the cats'll get him. He
don't like to melk keow for fenr
she'll kick him. He's afraid to court
n gal. He knint shoot. he KANT chop,
he KANT do nothin'."
Say. mister" said she. show tall
are your
"About six feet. think"
"Hum! That's just about how tall
my first husband was. You look some
like him In the face too. Say, he was
the Rghtlnest man In Pike. How come
him to get killed was difiikilty with
his brother.in.lgw, a Dutchman that
kept saloon and couldn't talk Eng
fish. Jim, he went In there TO get a
bite to eat and asked this Dutchman
what he could set up. Paul-that was
the Dutchman's name-he says, Well.
we got dawg-mallard dawg and red
head dawg and canvasback dawg-
what's the kind of dawg you like,
Chimr
my husband thought he was pokin'
fun ut him. talkin' about eatin' dawg.
not KNOWN the Dutchman was tryin'
20 say duck and couldn't. I might
have n piece Of duck. said Jim. but l
amt eatin' no dnwg.'
81 said dnwg.' says Paul. still airy.
In to say duck
81 know you did, says Jim, and
then they clinched. Jim he broke his
knife of. and the Dutchman soaked
him with beer mallet But. Mandy,
says Jim to me Jest before he shet his
eyes. Il die content. That there fel
low was the sweetest cuttin' man
ever did cut in all my life. He wal
Jest like a ripe pumpkin. Say, Their
was a man for you. was Jim. Yor
look some like him."
you compliment me very much, Mrs
McGovern." said.
SAY" she responded. II got 2.0O'
head o. hawgs runnin' around In thu
timber down there In Pike"
At the moment l did not see til,
yelled tenderness of this speech. bu
thought of nothing better than to tel
her that was going no farther up tn
river than Fort Leayenworth
"And I may be wilder almost IN.
day now: somebody II shore kill Dan
ny Calkins fore long," was Mandy
final hint.
We were running in the dark befor
!, the rising OF tho moon. n thing Gnu
tious steamboat men would not hav
: ventured. when some time towar
midnight there came a slight shock.
grating slide and a rasping crash @
. wood. With forward churning q
her paddles which sent water hig
> along the rail the River Belle shut
: dcrcd and lay still, her engines throl
b bling and grooming.
Joined the rush TO the bows ant
. leaning over. saw that we were har
aground at the lower end OF san
bar Embedded In this bur was n Ion
white snug. II tree trunk whose make
arms, thruSting far downstream, ha
literally immlcd us. The upper WOOD
work of the boat was pierced quit
through and. for all that one coul
= tell ut the moment, the hull belo'
e the line was In all likelihood similarl
o crushed
y Sudden disaster usually brings SUI
u den calm. the pause before resolutiO
or resignation Running down III
cOmpnniOnwny. ! found myself anon
= crowd of excited drrkhandS. mo-
q of whom. with many of the pnssei
J. gers. were pushing toward the sta
bOnrd rail whence could he seen Il
y gloom of the forest along shore II
gnngwuy door on the opposite side
the boat was open. ! sprnng ~
Il and. mailing good my hold upon Il
) nearest limb rs plunged found m
self standing IN moi more than f0l