New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-15
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JUNE d. 1919

and then we seen that it was Doc Ana we was pI t
proud that he only walked like ne was 'iieu anu NV
ike he'd been hurt TO any amount. Il b~oo1,c
"HeIlo thar Doe" says as me anG my vic pic I
out O the bushes and to the pain lhan 'i0 ''
says that you alive wunst more. pre-. co dark
Tbaver he draws no student, and IT wasn't so oar i
hut What we could see him smile his Doyish sii,ic
When he seen that my wife along he TOOK OH III.
hat and bowed lest as he'd always done when iic iie'
her the polite Teller that he was ,.;s,ohr,
eyes still alive he says; but may say c1oi c. c.
took down For | had a joust with Copperhead pc.
vers" he saws "and don't think III ever quite Grgl
it. However he adds, 81 WASH afeard nm Mn, d
me unless he was drove pretty hard You See nc iu
sense enough 10 know that II Would " Oi0"S'''
trouble from Nashville. .;so ho
@Tel us what happened | axes, and my WE sie
leans for ards anxious like-and all OF 1t WASH pan"
curiosity, neither .,.:, ,+ NV
little blue gun in nv pocket, took along flask tiS
spcrits called whisky and said to be good Tor
and here he smiles sort o tickled like ana SET Gu o
Pine Gap as I'd heerd you say that Coppereu iiulS
out over thar most o the time. | lost my way anu
didn't qit thar until mighty nigh noon-and also loSC
NV yaY comm back too, which is what maze me 80
late gttin in. As was gon along Gld Il":i ..ao
leads through the Cap seen somebody dodgc III |lT
laurcls right ahead o me- but 1t was 50 DARK count
the thick treetops overhead, that couldn't even 'c
# il was a man or a woman. SO goes on, and wheh
reaches the pint at which I'd seen the iggeI di' o'
o. nv sight minute afore | hears grufi voice.
Elevate emf it saws; and | knoWed II meant my
hands which same raised considably quickern the
r,oycncnts o. that dry-land wandrer knowed as the
tartoise.
"Well, says, they're up ,,o.+
4Then thar steps out 'afore me, with the very ugest
and biggest old navy pistol | ever seen leveed at me-
that thar villain Of a Copperhead Sewers
a'Whar's yore little toy gum he axes
Fright hip pocket tells him. You see, ne done
got the drap on me, and thought the most sensible
Tin, could do was to be very nice and quiet until
got out o. his power While believed that he Wouldn
Kill me unless he was drove pretty hard didn't feel
like a takin' any big chanst with HIM e..
ale took my little blue gun and drapped II iilSlce
his shirt: then he also relieved me the trouble
carryn around my fountain pen, the flask ShaEeOIe
medicine my pocket knife my purse and the cnallge
that was in it, my watch and cham handful CIGARS
and a box o. matches. And then he-he-
The little doctor stopped and imagined could see
him a turnin' red in the face.
well says l. what else did he DO; -,
"Hc-he put me over that thar rawboned knee o MS
saws DR.. Thaver, "and handed me a spankn that
shore made me think o. my boyhood days and the jam
in the pantry
We by gyaT' ho aI 90 ouim ,-noiI jest c0uan
And he also boxed my ears Tor me- says the docIof'
~TRe mean thing," repeats my wife, downright mad
ayes, he did" Thaycr says; but by the tones 0 MS
voice knowcd that he'd done quit laughn
at looks 70 me- says, pretty sober, that yore
cake is al dough What'rc YOU gOin 70 do now Doc;
you Jest wait, says Thaycr, sort o hard like. "FCT
the present he says, I'm so nigh starved 70 dcatn
that don't want 70 think about nothin but somcthn
% eat
Al that my wife she begins to muttcr somethin' in
rcgyaris 20 the atcrs she'd put % roast IN the ashes
done bcin burnt up, and we all sets out Tor my house
AFTER supper was over that night wc was settin
n around the fire and q talkin about the rowdy,
when thar was the sound o. steps comm up 10 the
gate, and a minute later comes haNoo went - tHe
door and opened it, lctin the light from the lie lamp
shine down the path seen the bent and weary hgger
Of a old woman who had travelled from some little dis
tance-which knowcd by her a hayin' few inches o
her slrts tucked into her waistband at each side 70
keep EN- from a bothcrn her in walkin She was sort
o. sharp faced and didn't know her from side o sole