The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-21

slam it breakin out three lights of
glass and reckin the sash like every
think
Then when Lem reulised that his
quick temper had made him do more
damage than ever he resorted to per-
family and Missus Sim Hines next
door who was woked up becuz he
swore so loud says that she newer
lissend to stitch awful shockin lang
widge in all her born days.
Jest then there was knock come
on the door of Lens front door and
he went and opend it wondering who
in Sam Hill would be calling on him
that time of night and what they would
want?
When Lem opend the door. there
STOOD Seth Dewberry our lion harted
town constubble holdin his head in one
hand and his six shooter revolver in
totherl
'.What in dognashion did you hit me
wallop behint the ear with that gor-
rammed bootjack fer?" saws Seth
shakin his revolver so clost under Lens
nose that he could almost smell the
cartridges in i'll
Il diddent know hit you with no
bootiack" says Lem a good cal sur
prised,
well. you done So" says Seth very
bitter land if you don't beleeve it 'ook
at this swellin areddy behint my ear
which is half as big as a hens egg
and | calkilate it will be as big as a
goose egg VIXEN it gifts al sweld up to
its full sizel Purity howdvdoo | cant
he waltin along the st in pursoot of
my dooties & gardin the lifes and
homes of the citizens of Ringville
aginst desprit criminals & burglars
without havin some 6end in burning
form like YOU throw bootiack thru a
winder when line passin peacable and
try TO dash my brains out with IT Fer
two cts Ide rest you fer assault and
with intent to kill eft cetterv too
numerus to mentchion and cast Won in
doorants vile in the town lookup"
lyon don't need to talk quite so i'm
portant under my roof" says Lem
berry that this is nv house and ! cal
kilate to do purity mulch as ] please
when line inside of it even to the
THROWN of bootiacks outen winders
and I also calkilate that other folks
even constubhe1s cant come into nv
house and talk to me without con-
sidable impoouitty
"To who do you refer, or to me ?"
says Seth bristlin up and shakin his
revolver closter under Lens nosen
everl
eyes. to you. Seth Dewberryl"
snarls Lem. "And if you don't take that
dinebusted pistil outen my Ease lie
grab if outen YOUR hand and hit you
belt over the head with itl'
lest then Seth to show his othorittv
tribe TO stick the pistil leetle mite
closter TO LENS Ease and prodded him
in the nose with it Thereupon Lem
who was alreddv mad with whot all
had haDpend to him grand the pistil
outen Seths hand like he promisd he
would & hit Seth a crack with it along
side the iawi
clinchd and rasslin all over the room
in shrugged to the deth figgeratively
speakin All to onct LENS foot slipd
and he fell over backwards with Seth
On top of him who come down so hard
that he like to of squo7e the life outen
Lemuel who hollerd "Helpi HelpF as
loud as he could boiler.
This woked up Mary Lens wife who
had alreddy went to bed who come
arunnine down stairs in her nightgown
& not fit to be saw in publick but when
she seen Seth Dewberry a gittin the
best of her Lem she grand up the stove
poker and hit him acrost the neck with
il with stitch Whence that Seth iurnpd
up and lit outen the house like the
| Old Scratch was after him.
Then she tride to help Lem git them
boots off but it wassent no use-they
stuck on like as if they was glued and
to make long story short Lem had
to go to bed with his boots on and
slept in EN- all mite but ne managed
| to git EN- often his feet next nornink-