The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1915-05-13

| ever saw. His mother told me that
Jed commenced to lie before he shed
his milk teeth and the habit kept
growing on him as he growed up. He
would lie about his crops and about
his stock and about his family and
especially about himself. One day
horseman who owned some of the
fastest steppers that ever hit the
track was telling about the fastest
runner he ever owned. He said that
this horse went around the track so
fast that the judges in the stand were
all made cross eyed trying to keep
track of him as he went around Jed
listened and said that he didn't doubt
the story a particle, but said he used
to own horse himself that was some
goer. Il used to ride that horse N.Y.
self" said Jed. One day l was racing
on half mile track and the saddle |
girth broke and that horse just jump
ed right from under me leaving me
and the saddle up in the air. Natur-
ally you would suppose that was in
for a hard pull and so l would have
been with any other horse, but that
critter just went on around without
any saddle and just as | commenced
to fall he come around the turn and
run under the saddle and right be-
tween my legs. The judges all said
they had never seen anything like it
in all their experience | heard Jed
explaining to stranger one day why
he hadn't any teeth. Jed said that
when he came to Kansas he had as
fine a set of teeth as any man in the
state, but one afternoon he laid down
to take nap. He had habit of
sleeping with his mouth open, and ,
while he was Snoozing cyclone come
cavorting along, dipped into his mouth !
and pulled out every blamed tooth he ,
had in his head. He said that after :
noon he found molars scattered along
for three miles in the track of that
storm. But Jed's lying got him into
trouble at last. One day a horse ,
ihrowed him. They picked him up un- :
and the doctor thought he T
vas dead The coroner called a jury G
md brought in verdict that Jed had t
)een killed by accident and that no c
'ody in particular was to blame. Just C
rs the verdict had been signed Jed c
ONE to and asked what was the mat
er. The coroner told him to shut up:
hat dead man had no business but
ing in with conversation. Jed in n
listed that he wasn't dead, but the -
oroner who was in the undertaking h,
usiness said that according to the bt
ecord he was and that there wasn't a
man in that neighborhood who would "
axe Jed's word against the record.
o the coroner went right along pre-
airing for the funeral. Jed cussed .,
nd ripped around and said that he -
asn't dead and didn't propose to be -
lried, but nobody would believe him. ne
Id men who had been acquainted ne
it'll him since he was a boy said they y
ever knew him to tell the truth in
IS life and didn't believe him now.
he undertaken got the coffin ready
I'd they were about to catch Jed and :.
e him in it, when stranger who
Irried a gun took up for Jed and u
vore that he would do some shooting L
the funeral wasn't stopped. Fnally tn
lie coroner said that rather than al
i've anybody hurt, the obsequies :.
ould be postponed, but told the or
that when he had been ac- ca
tainted with Jed as long as the rest M
them he would know more than to 10
1t any dependence in his word. That he
ranger was the only thing that kept
ID from being buried right then and r. r,
ere."