Show A DUDE IN TEXAS s I II Why lIe Was Permitted to Drink His Warm lemonade Talk about yer dudes said a Texas stockman on the Chicago 1 Burlington Quincy train last I night but a little the daodcat dood 1 ever seen was a fellow thet comedown come-down from Boston into our kentry a year ago las September He dint stay long in Texas I guess said a little man in a silk hatTans Tans hes there now 1 thought tnat hfY wouldnt let a dude live in Texas v Waal Ill tell yon how it wuz we come to let him stay He comedown come-down there with his peeked boots an his tight trousers an yaller kid glove a slingin more style than anew a-new Congressman on the Foth 0 July and a tellin folks that the doctors paid hed got the consumption consump-tion an d have to live in a warm climate Ah yes of course yon pitied the poor fellow and let him stay on that account 11 Not exactly that but as I was a sayin he slung his style like a Mormon walkin by a United States Marshals office Waal one night he ernie into a saloon where a lot of us weie a drinkin an steps up to the bar an says A wI say bah tendah give me a trifle of aw wam lemonade Bill Jackson snorted right out an then says e Boys what dye eay Les make the dood drink gin It wuz a go so Bill walks up an slaps the dood on the back like hed break im in two Bills the best man on the muscle in our hull kentry Say says Bill youd tetter drink gin Aw but its a wam lemonade I desiah says the dood WaaV says bill warm lemonade dont go in these ere parts you drinks gin or you drinks nothin y ou hear me Itawseems to me youre mistaken mis-taken says the dude ithout seem in to see there was trouble ahead I want toawdwink wam lemonade lem-onade an ne reached out fur the glass Bill wuuk at the rest of us and says to the dood Dye know what Im agoin to do ef you tries to drink anything but gin Wealiy I do not man dean boy Waal says Bill Im agoin to stand you on yer hesd in that air box o sawdust Aw that would not be wight says the docdj atipping up his glass to drink Bill reached out grabbed im by the neck an I never seen amen a-men get licked ro quick niB was too much for him was htH H No siree it sireej wuz tother way It wuz B 11 thet got licked Jerusalem Jerusa-lem ad Gnral Jackson but how that dood did jump about An every time e jumped e fetched Bill one on the eye er under the car erl along the jaw an Bill couldnt git within gunshot uv im Why thet air dood hed more tricks fur figh tin than Bill ever dreamd uv Furst hed be behind Bill an then on top uv irn an then underim an every time Bill opened an eye the dood stuck a fist in iterry fist it didnt make no differnce to im He wuz just about as handy with his thumpers es any man needs to be in this world It didnt take him morn a minute to go all around Bill an over im an through im in the bargain an then when he had Bill pretty well licked he took him the alifiiredest crack on the nose an sent im over in the corner behind the icebox like a bundle 0 old cloesWhat What did he do then Why he jest turned aroun an bu3hed the sawdust off his knee where hed ducked down to come up under Bill an says he Gentlemen Gentle-men will you all join meawin a wam lemonade An we jined im too quick 11 I Ye hes thare yet and I gue she s-he kin stay unless the consnmpti n gits away with im There haint nothing else down there that kin do it thats sure Chicago News |