Las Vegas optic., 1913-09-02
DISGRACE OF TErLOW
By CLARENCE HoLcoMB.

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SAY. he's that green that when he
climbs down off the box of the stage
he looks up an down the street afore
he gets off. 'FTaid he's goin to step
In front of trolley car.
sure he's green, but he's good
stuff. I'm runnin' bunch Of control
cattle on Stinkin Water mountain
that summer, an ! gives him job
Shure it looks like maxim him pres
ent Of them wages, but he's such
decent sort chap / aint got the
heart to turn him away. hears about
him every month in Tompson's report.
He says:
~ thought when you sent him out
here you must be losin your mind
but 1 guess you knew wot you was
dom. He's fine chap, an a hard
worker
1T ain't long after this till the first
snow falls on the mountain, an the
cattle has to be got in on the home
ranch.
TITS hard work this, fur strange
camps don't appeal to the cow-brute
none, SO after it's all over ! gives the
boys a week in town. hangs around
the boardin' house principle, an Joe
keeps me company. The house was
run at that time by q little widow by
the name Of Cumming.
1T seems 4 iow named Black
Jack Tetlow was rayin' all suits both
ways from the adle tryin' to win
the widow, but she don't enthuse
Final, when Joe arrives on the scene
she passes him up like he's a white
chip, which makes him imagine Joe's
alienatin' them affections.
'Harry, Jed an Barney is all down
to the saloon, an before we turns in
Joe an I lights our pipes an strolla
down town. AS we pass the saloon
the boys is in l takes it into my head
to drop in an try to get them to come
to bed an Joe follows.
I'VE amt no more than entered
when a. slab-sided kid called Google
Eye George, sticks his foot between
Joe's legs an trips him up. This Cog
gle Eye Georges eyes stick out like a
shrimps, but when Joe gets up, he
shure puts one Of them back normal
Just one lick, an Google Eye amt
got no more fight in him than sheep
but he don't need to do his own fight
in, fur right hyer Black Jack takes
his hand an plays it fur him.
"Gettin' up from the table, where
he's been dealin stud poker he walks
up to Joe.
"'Wot do you mean?' he snarled
a hitting of my particular friend?
"Joe didn't say anything, just stood
his ground.
"rWelI, I'll make you talk" shouts
Black Jack, haulip' off an knockin
Joe over couple of chairs.
Joe picks himself up, brushes his
clothes, an faces Black Jack.
You're not goin to shoot me?"
asks Black Jack, like he's alarmed.
Yes says Joe, 4 think l shall
"Now you're talkin' like a sport,
even if you amt got the ear marks,
spouts Black Jack
with this he motions the crowd to
get off the firin' line, pulls his gun, an
goes to the further end of the room.
Joe, he pulls bulldog 80 he's
raked up somewheres, but keeps on
standin' in the center Of the room.
"'You picks the quarrel, and you
suggests the weapons. Now, I'm goin
to name the distance, says Joe.
"'Wot's the matter with this? asks
Black Jack.
'Nothin',' says Joe, only the school
I attends when I'm a kid teaches man.
ners instead of sharp-shootin', which
same system seems to have been re-
versed where you're brought up. Now
If you will be SO kind says Joe
bowin' low. you will step this way
"Wot do you mean?' stammers
Black Jack.
"I mean, says Joe, cool as a mint
juIip, that this affair is goin' to be
breast to breast.
For a moment Black Jack looks at
him in surprise, then swallows several
times an hangs his head.
IF he don't except he knows it's his
finish in the COW country, an likewise
it's the same if he does, fur even
tenderfoot like Joe cant miss at that
range. Black Jack is a bad man, with
more than one notch in his gun, but he
don't dare run his brand on the little
slick-ear that's standin' there in the
middle Of the room, even If his horns
amt out Of the velvet He looks
around at the crowd, then seein' it
amt no use he shoves his gun in his
pocket, an goes over an gets his hat
AS he does this, Tompson gives hiss
an though you can see it hurts he
never turns.
"BIack Jack Tetlow is gambler
says the judge, as we arose and
pushed our chairs against the wall
but he let's tenderfoot make hin
lay down a cinch."
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