New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-15
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We can git detectives from Nashville We got TO ca'ch
Copperhead Sewers myself. , -.
had done gone out and we throwed EN- IN the hre
Then | spoke -, it,. ;t
II han't got no advice to offer, says mighty nign
IN whisner 81 ike YOU much to want TO see you
rt vorcSef in danger | like the pore little Children
too much to want to see you give up the gh uitl te
law can git Sewers out o yore way. You 90 do YOU
think is best Doc. course adds IT W3uId DC n'C
fer for YOU to catch Copperhead. 1t would be the max
in of YOU in the eyes o the people and yoe SIZE anu
youngncss wouldn't count nothin az lIlSt you 'N'N
Still saws, Il han't advisn you to Try IT, -o.
I'm a little man, and Sewers IS big man: says
Tbaver lookin' thoughtful like at the tre i We got
a class o. brains though he goes on, "that SeeVcIS
hain't got So its brains ag inst brute SIrc8Ii'
pap says he, "and brains is the best gilat can iino
a giant wincc-in his eye. Say he deciar s. d SO,diBn
cnin' ND in his splint-botomed chair, Il m gon 70 gu
in the giants eye that's edzacty what I'm goih 70
" How his face did light up as he gazed at me and
waited to see what had to say about IT, But ! had
done spoke nv sentiments afore and didn make iip
remarks in regvarls to what he'd jest said; although
| did look at him admrn like
rUEN the doctor he changed his gaze from me to the
L one winder q the cabin, which was IN the wal
acrost the room from the door, and his face went d
little white | turned my head quick, ana seen inc
same thing he'd sccnlcst beyant the glass tEH "'S
the dcvlish and Cunnin face o that lowdown copper
head Sccversl He'd been listenn' to what we peen
a talIn' about,-whch we'd ought o knoWed aio I
we found out by what ne SAD minute l''O'' GU" -:
was a smn' and grndln his teeth at the same 'io'
which was his danger signal -, Ton,
"Don't reach for a gum | whispers, plumb aeard
that | was a goin 10 witness the paSSih uie nv
little doctor Hes got his old navy pistol ready 10
lift above the WlndcrSl, | says, ana nc JcSV Hyi''
to take a crack at YOU l.,
Then Coppcrhcad he pushes back his slouch hat,
raises his left fist and SinashcS out tne lQuI PIoS
glass them and the light woodwork that held EN- M
at one single blow His face comes cloStcr, ana pIcIY
soon half O his head IS IN the room .,-,
$50 It's brains 40 inst brute strength IS 1t; he SnecrS
and the Old Scratch hissclf couldn't a beat copper
head Sewers snccrin. 81 reckon | nam got no
brains myself hey? Why, YOU pore little makcshlt OF
\ man YOU wcczlv. dricd-up pncworn, I've got more
sense in one minutc'n YOU did have IN al yoic
life So you're a gon' to capture me, are YOU run!
You couldn't make me spill gourd water. for TWO
cents consam yorc hide Id come IN thar and put you
over my knee
Don't saw nothn', Doe" manages to whisper; but
il was so loud that Coppcrhead hissclt hccrd me PLAN
He'd better not say nohin', says Copperhcad, a
smilin and grindin' his teeth III he does, 1t better
be "a prar Remember Doc he says 10 doh l ie1
another sun go down on YOU here.
For whole minute the two men stared at e3Ch other
AMI | could tell by the way the doctor Diuc eyes
snaDocd that il was al ne could DO 20 hold his tongue
Then Coppcrhcad he shifted jcrScd up hls red mead,
and wadcd of into the night as silent rs ghost
~Watoh and see il don't git him says lhavcr to
me- SO mad that he Coulin hardly talk You Nid
that brains will always win out ag INST brute strength
| don't know VT how m "a Gnin TO 90 IL ouI il "'
It, Jest the same, .
BE kccrfIl. for goodness sake says 81 know its
sort o. od-woman talk; but its good advice IN TINS IN
stance.
And when I started to go to my cabin a hour later
Thaycr he told me that he was goin after the bad
man the next day.
WELL III told my old wife about the rowdys visit
w and the doctors partn words to me, that night
after III got home, and she made me haul ont o bed
early the next nornn and go down % try 10 persuade