Show HIS BLUFF BCo Wasted to Cut Ahead of the Man with the 3Iortjf3g5 At about noon a I a journeying on horseback through North Dakota I came along to a farm Ijousa which looked very dilapidated but which might furnish n comfortable dinner nevertheless seemed at first to be deserted but after a while n bare headed coatless man answered my I knocks and asked what was want When I I told him he replied Stranger Im sorry but I cant accommodate ac-commodate you My info i down with the chills I Too bad And my oldest gal has got the jumping toothache Just jumped her clean over a chairThats Thats hard lines And the other gal has bin in bed three weeks with a thorn in her foot Im sorry And Ive got my everyotherday ager shako on or I would cook something for you myself Things seem to b going hard with you I suggested Youve hit it stranger he said a he sat down on the doorstep and indulged in a long shiver The land aint what I thought it was NoP And Ive had three crops fail on me1 Yes And some of us have been sick everyday every-day since we came into tho state Barn burned tip last month1 Did ehP And some one run off my horses and I wagon last week I declare I And Im dead broke and nothing in the house to eat except corn meal Well well Werent you discoani red Teetotally And why dont you pull up stakes and I leaveThats it stranger why donc H I know I orter and the old woman says I orter but Im hangin on for a bluff Hows that Eastern man got a mortgage for 0 on this outfit which haint worth SGOO and Im hangin on to bluff him into giving me 30 more to vacate anti travel Ive do it well all die in writ him i he wont o wel al the house and haunt the ranch forevermore forever-more but hes slow in making up his mind Ever see a feller shake worse than I do stranger Its seven miles to the next ho r and the old woman is hollering for water and that jumping gal is jumping with another spell of toothache Excuse haste stranger and keep straight andy and-y nl fetch up at Browns New York |