The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1916-01-07
Won at a
Shooting Match
3, OSCAR cox

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By OSCAR cox
Yo' want to know why we culled
gemmelmen nebber fought a duel
case we got mo- sense n white folks.
Wha' de use two niggahs standin' up
to fight TO- DER honah when DER honah
won't be no use to 'em when dey get
killed? One live man Il with two
dead ones any day.
De neares' I ebber come to seem
two culled gemmelmen fight a duel
war down in Mississippi aftah de wah.
One OBJ de Lincun culled regiments
wah disbaDded down dab. Majah
Wa'fleld, dat belonged to Curnel Wa.
field befo' de proclamation, was a cap'n
OBJ de regiment-dat is, SO many OBJ
de white ossefers wah killed dat dey
had to put In culled ones. De majah
was mighty swelled up wild bein'
called majah and put on all de airs OBJ
a plantah what owned q t'ousand mig
gahs. All de culled gals was stuck on
he fine manners and de brass buttons
he wore and buzzed about him like
flies on a sugah bari. Wha'ver he
went der war suah to be a string OBJ
simp'erin' gals at he heels.
But de majah didn't want any OBJ
'em 'cept Sue Venables. de likeliest
gal on de Venables plantation. and
de only reason he wanted her war
case Jim Archibald war gwine to
marry her hisself. Majah Wa'feld
was like a rooster in a chicken yard
dat won't low any udder rooster dab.
He went shinin' up to Sue. and soon
as she sor dat she could git an ossefer
she kind OBJ dropped Jim. Den Jim
says. says he:
EFF yo' want Majah Wa'6eld mo
dan yo' want me I'm gwine to slide
out"
who said l wanted Majah Wa'ield
mo- dan I want yo'?"
"Wha' 20 cotton to him so TO- II
70 don't want him?"
Sue, she wouldn't give up de majah.
and she wouldn't glib up Jim. OATS
de way wild some gals. Seems g II
dey want to max trouble tween de
men. De majah and Jim KEEP g1ttin'
hotter and hotter till dey war just siz-
zlin'.
At las wha' war goin' on sploded.
De majah. who had carried de pistol
in an affair OBJ honah tween two gem
melmen and reckoned he mus put on
all de airs OBJ white folks. sent wo'd to
Jim dat If he wanted Sue he mus fight
TO- her on de field oh honah. Oar war
no odder way to sit her.
When Jim got de challenge he war
walkin' towa'd de BAN, and settln' be-
side de ban do war Uncle Nose. a mig
gah wha' had de mos sense OBJ any
niggah on de plantation. Jim toll
Nose about de challenge. and Nose
says. says he:
dat fool niggah t'ink he mighty
sma't jes' case he belonged to de
army. Yo' leab 1t all to me. Jim. l
git yo' de gal"
Jim agreed. and Nose called on Ma
jah Wa'1eld's second to arrange de
TENS.
DE bes' way TO- to settle de mat
tah." says Nose. 'is TO Majah Wa'deld
and Jim to gee which is de bes' shot.
To do dis dey needn't shoot at each I'D
der. Dey kin shoot at a max. TO II
dey git killed wha' use de gal to
The majah was persuaded to leave
Sue to de bes' ma'ksman. and Nose
said dat dey shoot at an egg hung to
thread. Whoeber put de mos shots
into de egg war to hab de flel' cIar to
git Sue.
All de niggahs turned out to see de
shootin' match. Nose. bein' de oldes'
niggah. war master 1ofsceremonIes. He
hung up"an egg. and. lookin' wise. he
said:
''Yo'. Jim. 20 fire six shots ut dat
egg. Den Majah Wa'ield fire six
shots at anudder egg. De one dat
puts de mos shots In de egg gifts de
gal"
He handed Jim a revolver wild six
shots in 1t. Jim TUX de pistil. shet his
eyes and fired, hittin' a niggah stand.
in to n side in de heel. Den he fred
some mo-, openin' his eyes mo- and
mo-, and de las shot he hit de egg and
It all ober de crowd standin'
roun'. .
Majah Wa'6eld he lated, feelin' sho'
dat he could hit de egg ebery time.
When Nose hung up anudder egg de
majah fred. He didn't hit de egg, but
It. He fired agin and joggled
it agin. Six times he fred and six
times joggled de egg. Den Nose said
to him. says he: "Yo' go'n way from
hyer and leab Sue TO Jim. She be-
long to Jim anyway till you come long
wild yo' fine soldier manners"
The majah he list tuned around and
walked away, and he didn't show his
face about dere no mo- nohow. Nose
TUX Jim by q am and ma'ched him to
where Sue was. and he said to Sue.
says he:
"You quit 20 foolin' and take dis man