The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-07-30
On came Dog.
"Br-r-rhl" growled the pistol.

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/ "Brr-rhl" growled the pistol.
/; On came Dog.
''WhangW tipped the next shot.
On came Dog.
Six times that iron coughed, with no
swerving on Dogs part.
Then a wild fear crept into Kin
stons face. He threw the discharged
weapon at Hankly's head; Hankly
ducked, and past him sped Kinston in
pretty dodge.
, He gained his horse, mounted and
clattered out Of town.
We were all too paraiyzed to speak
Even Dog Hankly did not see fit to
break the silence. Instead, he strolled
on back to his cabin.
We saw him pass on out to his
shed, and fifteen minutes later he
/ once more hit the road This time he
was mounted, and by long rope leash
he led the last hound which he had
been training for my uncle, Colonel
| Caldwell.
The next afternoon, at about three
: O'Clock, small boy brought startling
| intelligence.
Two men, a horse, and q dog were
coming up the road.
We filed out to witness events. Dog
Hankly sat astride his cayuse; from
the saddle-pommel stretched a rope,
and at the other end strobe Kinston,
the mighty fallen, securely bound.
Well, did they make that lank Dog
Hankly sheriff? Did they apologize
in superabundance of profuseness?
l should smile.
And Dog and grew old together,
for business and health kept me long
in that region.
] Men came from miles around to see
and meet the man who had stood the
! fire and made the capture of Kinston,
the outlaw.
Late one autumn afternoon, as Dog
and I sat chatting on his back porch,
the topic turned to that emporium
ity'' which is supposed to knock once
at every mans door.
"Somethin' In til" grunted Dog
musingly, IF yer couple it with luck
and ingenuity"
Il don't exactly catch your drift" 1
answered.
He looked sharply around to see If
any one was by, and then, leaning
over, said:
'Tn jist bust If I don't tell some
one how got this here reputation Of
NINE"
"Your reputation about that Kinston
affair-about your being the bravest
man In the Old North slater
Exactly" he answered.
well, l sure won't TELL" I pledged.
Eyer see," said Dog, "when Kinston
sprang by me and got away 1 got
plumb disgusted, and made up my
mind to take that hound I'd been
training over to your uncle to change
my spirits.
Nov, l got along by the spring
down there at Does Crossing, and
thought I'd take drink. According,
! approached the bushes around the
water, and what should hear but a
voice come out Of that shrubbery.
Don't shoot, Hankly;' it said; I'll
come peaceable.' Then, sir, out
crawled Kinston, scratched with briers
and clean out of heart. / played the
card which had fallen right in my
hand-bound him up some secure, and
brought him along. Yer see, I'd kind
Of got his goat by walking up to
that there bloody gun of his"
That's Just It," said |. Surely,
facing that fire was bravep
well. not exactly as might be sup
posed" exclaimed Dog. "Yer see
the day Of the election / had seen
Kinston buy two quarts O. BOOZE So,
that night, the night before the gun
play, I slips off to his cabin in the
woods, rolls him over in his dead
drunk, and takes the bullets out Of
that old muzzle-loading revolver of
his.
"Phew!" sighed Dog, In relief. "Im
glad to get that out of my system after
all these years I"