The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-21
PERMANENT CROUCH
OF JARED PINKERS
Caused by Being Bitten by a
Dog Belonging e Buck
Hawlcy's Slave.
\ LESSON IN MODERATION
NJ DAVID 4. Curtis,

18th amt no good comes o. lickin' a
man no mo alter you done beat him
to death said old nan Greenlaw, and
having said II he looked AROUND at the
others. who sat with him In the little
saloon which he maintained in Ar
kansas City. at the time when that
community had nothing but a possible
future to commend it TO the favorable
consideration Of the world.
His manner as he ~onunciated this
profound observation was that OF one
who is entirely convinced Of the cor-
rectncss of his statement. and having
made it he comported himself as ons
who has no fear of being successfully
contradicted. His air was that OF con-
scious possession and enjoyment OF
great wisdom. and his look was
naughty and high. Taking a cigar
from his YES. pocket he proceeded after
his usual custom to eat one portion
% II and light tho other. then seating
himself by the window and putting
his feet oil the sill in evident expecta-
ion Of a period of p~lessurable mac
t,vity.
His hearers were not unaccustomed
w us = NliiN NfIf lTF-
ouently as astute as his one. and ike
this entirely uncalled for by anything
that had been said or one in the i'm
mediate past. For the most part those
who heard them were unimpressed by
hem. preferring to let him anus
himself rather than enter into con-
%troversy.
This was not always the case. how
ever. there being occasions when a
certain pestilent fellow named owen
Pepper from cast Tennessee would
sit among them and interject pro-
Vocative comment.
"Oh. | don't know" said Mr.. Pepper
after he had thought a few minutes
about what the cd man had said
sometimes they is q heap q satiSfac-
ton kickin' the stufin' outcn the
corp"
The others looked at him a while
without manifestinG the slightest APP
proval. though. on the other hand, no
one seemed To he sufficiently exasper-
ated 10 render it necessary to resort to
physical violence. II might have been.
Eovcvcr. that they had learned from
experience the futiliiy of attempting
. cXterminate Mr.. Pepper. and that
they regarded anything short of tina;
as Inadequate. However Il was. they
2azed at him unfavorably. and con-
tinued to do so until Old man Green.
avs SAFE intensified itself into a
-,sre.
They is soIae has that kyind % a
disposition 10 said in a tone which
he evidently I'M anded TO express with.
ering scorn. Mules has 1t IT, some
extent. I've knowcd a mule to kecr
On kickin' holes in tie air 70 a lons
time alter they amt NJ use in it. Blu,
faint gently 'Xpected what they Is
no two legged biped cwine to waste
hissclf thatsway 'thouten he's a rat
tlesnske."
"Oh. | don't know said Mr.. Pepper,
emboldened oy the inactivity OF I'll,
company. they is some difference be-
twixt kickin' holes in the air an
kickin' EN- in a corr.
81 reckon this yer is done went fur
enough" said Sam Pesrssll. reaching
out in the direction in which Mr.. PEP
per was. Mr.. Pepper, however, wen
away from there. Things settled
down after that and the old mar
said:
81 oncet showed a man what wa
'ficted with hat ky!nd q c'nte mpt!h,e
Sperit most remarkable. Vicious. he
was. Peal red like nc want satisfied
with nothin', not till he dom tored II
10 pieces an burned up the bits
IL reckon he done come I'm Green
vile" observed NJ. PearSall sarcas-
tlcally. Mr.. Pearsall had been mar
ried in Greenville some limo before
that.
NO" said the old man. He dane
come I'm some'rs else, I don't rightly
know whar twas. but he undertook L.
settle in Greenvilie. un'y the citizens
done rode him away onto a rail iat''
on. him bein' Considered undesirable.
Must "a been amazir' low down
said Pcarsall. III he want tit comply
70 nobody in Greenville,"
want fit comp'ny TO nobody. ne
where's said the old man, sidestep.
ping the reference to his native place
II reckon mebbe they was a streal'
~ Ozark into him" he continued
'bein's he 'peared to been bo'ned :
cantankerous : catam. UNITS"
The old man hal preiudices Of his
bWn. ana one OF lHtll WIS a Nloi'Hl
antipathy to any one who came from
The region OF the Ozark Mountains
ANYWAY" he e on TO say, This
we're yap-he called hisself Jared
Pinkcrs, but o co'se everybody
knowed they want no SIGH nam"-
was nigh bout the orneriest indivija'
what they W was in Greenville."
They was others said Pearsal
but no one paid any attention t.
him. All respected his sorrow.
"Fust thing hc done when he come
t G%recnyille,' said the old man, was
70 git bit by a dawg, Nice, pe'"c.bl'
kyind Of a ds u2 Il was too. BIonget
70 a Niger. an hadn't never beer
knowcd TO bite nobody afo. but thu
minute he sen Jared Plnkers h'
reared to go mad suddint, an tool
\ piece outen his lsis like u d beer
did with a knife.
THEY want nobody s'prised noaf
when Plnkers pulled a gun an sho
him da,d. That was nachul enough
an they d.dl't nobody say nothin', no
wen the Niger. till later on.
"But Ne was C'nsii'able s'priseC
when Jared Pinkers keep or shootln
a'ter he done killed the dawg, an
pumped lead into him tiI ne mu "a
weighed mo n a boss. An rv'.i 'lleI
H. van. s2tisN"' ""3red like IN
nj - cent mad to", fo' lie Stompe'
otto inc dawg's carcass an dance
up an down tin he had II all hattene'