The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-31


 and he has decided to make an ex- ample. of ,ern. The only two lawyers in town is Windy and Mart, which has been in the poker game themselves, the same as always. The doctor says thei hull thing is put up job, and he can't get the money, and he wouldn't if he could. and he'll lay in that town cala- boose and rot the rest of his life and eat the town poor before he'll stand it. And the squire says he'll jest take their hosses and wagon fur c'laterral till they make up the rest of the $25O. And the hosses and wagon was now in the livery stable next to Smiths Palace hotel, which Jake run that too.
 We'll, I thinks to myself it is a dern shame, and felt sorry fur them two fellows. Fur our town was jest as good as stealing that property. And felt kind O shamed of belonging to such town too And I thinks to my l self I'd. like to help 'em out of that scrape. And then l. seen how I could do it, and not get took up for it neither
 Say, Dr. Kirby, got a scheme!'' They jumps up, too, and they looks at me startled Then the doctor kind O laughs and says:
 'Why, it's the young blacksmith!'' Looey, he says, looking at me hard ana SuSQ1c1OuS:
 s.What kind of scheme are you talking about?''
 Why" says I, f'to get that outfit of yourn."
 You've been listening to us," says 1 Looey. Looey was one of them quiet l looking fellers that never laughed much nor talked much. Looey, he never made fun of nobody, which the i doctor was always doing, and I 1 wouldn't of cared to make fun of l Looey much either.
 ''Yes," I says, "I been layink here fur quite a spell. and quite natcherai I listened to you, as any one else l would of done. And mebbe I can get | that team and wagon of yourn with out it costing you a cent.'' l Well, they didn't know what to say. They asts me how, but says to leave it all to me. "Walk right along down | this here crick,'' I says. ''till you get l to where it comes out'n the woods and runs acrost the road in under an iron bridge That's about a half a mile l east. Jest after the road crosses the i bridge it forks Take the right fork and walk another half g mile and you'll see a little yaller painted school- l house setting lonesome on a sandhill. They ain't no school in it now. You wait there fur me- I says. ''fur a couple of hours. After that if I ain't there you'll know can't make it. But think I'll make it."
 They looks at each other, and they looks at me. and then they go off a | little piece and talk low, and then the | doctor says to me:
 "Rube.'' he says. "I don't know how you can work anything on us that hasn't been worked already. We've | got nothing more we can lose. You go l to it, Rube.' And they started off.
 So I went over town. Jake Smith was setting on the piazza in front of his hotel, chawing and splitting tobac- co, with his feet agin the railing like | he always done and one of his eyes squinched up and his hat over the other one.
 '.Jake,'' I says, where's that there doctor?''
 Jake he spit careful afore he answer ed, and he pulled his long, scraggly mustache careful, and he squinched his eye at me. Jake was a careful man in everything he done.
 ''I dunno, Danny he says. 'fWhy ?''
 t'Well.'' says, Hank sent me over to get that wagon and them hosses of theirn and finish that job.''
 'Thet there wagon" says Jake, 'tis in my barn, with Si Emery watching her. and she has got to stay there till the law lets her loose" I fingered to myself Jake could use that team and wagon in his business and was going to buy her cheap off'n the town, what share of her he didn't f1gger be owned already.
 "why. Jake" I says, 'sI hope they ain't been no trouble of no kind that [ Hn k1,< Iaz S,,&.
 "Well, Danny" he says, ''there has been little trouble But it's about over now, guess. And that there outfit belongs to the town now"
 You don't say sop says I, surprised like. tFWhen I seen them men last night it looked to me like they was too fine dressed to be honest.''
 ''I don't think they be, Danny" says Jake confidential. ''In my opinion they is mighty bad customers. But they has got on the wrong side of the law now, and I guess they won't stay around here much longer
 Well" says I. Hank will be glad
 "Fur what?" asts Jake.
 We'll says I, "because he got his pay in advance fur that job, and now he don't have to finish it. They come along to our place about sundown yes terday and we nailed a shoe on one hoss. They was a couple of other hoofs needed fixing, and the tire on one o9 the hind wheels was beginning to rattle loose"
 had noticed that loose tire when ] was standing by the hind wheel the night before, and it come in handy now. So goes on:
 'fHank, he allowed he'd fix the hull thing fur six bottles of that Injun med icine., E1mira has been ailing lately and he wanted it fur her. So they handed Hank out six bottles then and there.''
 s.Huhg' says Jake. .So the job is al