The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-27
A Cost!
Seth Dewberry Our Lion Hearted
Town ConstubbIe Had a TurribIe
Experience With One Tother
Mite Thrilling PartickIers as
Per Below!

Tother evg down to Hen Weathers
| bys store where some of Bingvilles
representative citizens was assembled
around the stove smoking & indulging
in soshia1 discourse, the subjeck of
costs or spirits come up.
Some of them present believed II.
costs and some diddent. Brad Hins-
ley swore he seen a COST onct about 2
yrs ago which come walkin into his
bedroom about 2 o'clock in the mornin.
Brad said he got betwixt the COST and
the bedroom door and then the COST run
into the clothes closet and shet the
door after it and when Brad struck a
light and opend the closet door logged
if the closet wassent empty. Brad
said if it wassent a COST how could it
of vanishd like that.
Seth Dewberry Our lion hearted town
constubble who was present pooh
poohed the very idee of SIGH thing as
a COST. Seth said give him his trusty
six-shooter and he'd Ease whole regi-
ment of costs & be glad of the chanst
While this conversation pro & con
about costs was goin on Lem Quigley
snuk outen the store unbeknownst to
ennybuddy & went home. LENS wife
had went to bed but Lem went up very
quiet to the spare bedroom and pulled
a sheet often the bed and tux it under
his arm and left the house and walked
to the grave yard down Main st at the
lower end of town. There Lem set
down in the dark and flld his pipe and
waited for Constubble Dewberr to
pass by the grave yard on his way
home. 1t was a cloudy mite with the
moon showing through a rift now and
good mite for costs to operate.
Well Lem SET there ma Shier,tfy wait
in for bout hour. At the end of
that time he heerd Seth clumpin down
the middle of the road lords the grave
yard whisselin away as cheerful as you
please. Lem knowd it was Seth by his
whissel being as Seth was whisselin
Pop Goes the Weesil," which is The
only tune Seth can whissel and he cant
whissel that very we'll
Lem wrapped the sheet all around
hisself so as he would look like a reg
lar COST and pinned it in place with
some safety pins he found at home
then he waited. Presently Seth passed
by still whisselin with his hands in his
pockets and when Seth was jest oppo-
site the grave yard Lem he riz UP from
behint a tombstone and stepped out into
the road behint Seth and follerd along
about six ft behint.
Seth diddent know there was emmy
COST in the vicinity until after they
had went about so yards and thea Seth
jest happend - glance bach and seen
Lem in the white sheet follering him.
Seth jerked his hands outen his pock-
cts and stopt whisselin and Lem saiG
he stepped along a little mite Eastern
common & KEEP glancin back over his
shoulder every seckond or two to see
if the COST was still there. Lem did
dent say nothink-all he done was to
keep up with Seth jest about six # !
behint him.
Finally Seth broke into a trot and SO
did Lem Lem says that in few min
nits Seth was runnin like race horse
and that he had a turrible hard time to
keep up to him. Whilst they was run
min like this Seth lookt back with his |
eyes plugged out to see if the COST was |
comm & tripped over a stone in thu
road and fell sprawlin Lem was goin |
so fast he couldn't stop SO he tript up