The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24

ia ttttts Sdlu lHt
Old man, who had listened discriminate
ingly to both sides, but as Sam savs.
these yer trav'lers Is bleeged TO- tn
come here anyway, IL they gifts as fur
$ whar the train stops. They can't
go nowhercs else.
They c'n be met up with ber, "a
well 5 they kin out I'm IN, u,ood, ~,
IN amt no Expense attached To waitin.
~ cru rieht whai We I've now. IL any
o yo' uns goes up to meet 'em I
sunic Ia De expected to pay fo' the
skiH, an prob1y hire a couple a. ,,p-
gers 70 to paddle it,"
sno would. said Blaisdell very
positively an that amt al. THEY'LL
nave 10 be n few bottles o. red liquor
aood 10 to entertain the gents on the
way to town. They wouldn't he no Use
.aK'h one or two bottles along just 70
I" aggervate EN-. They'd have TO he
enough TO to keep 'em go,n' till we got
EN- here.
III We cd git EN- some picked ON
n way 1t d save time. They'd he mo-
Inclined TO to play n they would ~ the
TRIP was anyways dry. TIL ain't
hothin puts a man mo- out o. sorts n
goin' dry in flood times. Mo- n likely
mats long of everytiiin' else holm
wet ne with a smile at his
OWL .'tie Joke
nu' tne OLD man refused to look at
'he funny side of ".
ihey won't he nothin' " that kyind
diddin'.' he declared promptly. ~
uoht Hind putin up a few drinks TO-
q customer when he's a standin' up to
we u"r an they IL a chanst 70 to git
nm TO set into a game. II he's enough
Vi u Spot II" TO play he's gently lib'ral
enrousn 10 10 pay 10 the drinks his
own sei1. u this yer sendin' out TO
:" "Ne po'ties TO he drinked into a
poat where they can't nobody be
Npected TO pay TO nothin' what's set
up ~ cold blooded an cal'latin', b'sides
oeln NpcnsiVe an won't tand ~ II.
mon tnat IT'S wholesale liquor bust
res an is a retailer
Mepne yo all c'nsiders yo'self a
e1Ailer' eNciaiined blaisdell with sud-
WI "ia'n' put ia eau yo a p%icayune
p'N.r 1 was caiied on 10 to 'xpress
T. p.hion'
iiere yo he monfn' over the
c mutton o business an not w1llin' to
put up icy" potties o boone to fetch
ous.o.hers III. lone been gittin' sick
, Arhhhsas lily fo some time my
III" pe"rs hke mat there Is a
ouiine o straw WHAT'S big enough to
preak d NIUE PACK plum In two. I'm
s"hne qu'' me next Train 10 Little
WIN take me aiohS'
VIC W. S"iu Joe bslsset'. whose
1ASs"S' vas equth 10 bialsdens. II
ueh searhlh 10 retirement 10 some
t"'e recent an 1 reckon mebbe |
""ouSnt Si' reiiei up 10 Little ROCK"
u u I've better n thls' SAID Winter
oo''om with a Sly Wink at Pearsall.
"no 'ooh the h'ht, ana declared with
srea' e"hpnass ina me- 100 would
prefer 70 DE almost ahIwhere else
Ia'"e' '"a" stay iohser IN Arkansas
.iuy. ,
'"e "" mans perturbation would
nave oeen painrui 10 a sympathetic
person nao an! such oeen present.
! reckon us nachui, ne SAID des-
palrihsiy' 10 a mans friends To turn
az III MIN when ne sits "ld. The best
on EN- amt no bcttern broken bull
rusnes 10 iean onto an TN amt no
heaith into EN- as the Good Book
says.
we uns ~ heaIthy enough said
biaisdeii Indignantly. but 10 one I
amt gwine to be tied up with no tight
wah. 'f 20 all was TO loosen up,
mebpe theyd be enough diddin' 70 to
hoId us a spell.
We'll, have 1t 20 W way, said the
old man, fairly at his wits end. III
the business is gwine TO bust up It
mought as well he n way as another.
Gilt 70 SKIN an take the liquor. but II
they Is anythin' comes of IL tn Expense
il TO be tookened outen the game afo'
the profits is divided"
That's fair enough" said Winter
bottom. and the others agreed, realiz-
Ing that the trip would at least be n
relief from the monotony OF life as
they were hFIng IL Ana accordingly
II was arranged on a scale fairly to be
called magnliicent.
Two SKINS n rour coiored men
were chsaseu' ana the ShiiS were
p~rou'sahS lul"'sheu WIN rerresh-
meme "aHSel' anu n'aisuen uoarucu
~ : e''S" d" "'n'e'-
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Nv .rn'po,"ty o,i'h,us III Nv Woo">
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oid uor "a, ,,o,o - Sc 10, H..
sn,rIted h,t ;ndion.rt r., hin, oa,n,
Mr. Owen penncr ~ vbor ,ro nL,
man related tho circumstance of wb,,