Show BOB THE GASSETT After a Tender Bringing UpTurned Up-Turned Out an Ingrate JEEMS AND THE JUDGE HURRAH The Conrt Decides that Revenge Is Sometimes I JustlQableThe Widder Dalton and the Fiddler I was travelingamong the mountains of East Tennessee and one day about noon L was casting about for place wnerel might get somthing to eat when like the traveler who discovered the blind preacher my eye I was attracted by a number of horses that were tied near a ruinous old los house Curiosity and a hope that I might be on L the trail of something to eat drew me to I the house Upon entering the doorway I found a justice of the peace holding court it was a criminal cas and I discovered the I prisoner to be a long lank fellow with a bony face and a complexion that proclaimed I the clay eater I fancied that having killed L some one he was now on trial to determine whether or not he should be sent before the grand jury as a sort of sarcastic preliminary prelimin-ary to being hanged and began to pity his probable wife and presumable children when the judge saidf This hero court bole sorter tired will now take a recess fur halfer hour The court has sot here an chewed now to backer till the hide is about all took offeji the inside of his mouth an I wanter to say that if anybody has got any tobacker that is a leetlo milder in its parts pass a chew of it right up to the court The prisoner took out a twist of tobacco and handed it to the judge whereupon the jurist remarked This court thanks you Jeems but at the same time reminds you that the law of this great land aint to be bought for a mess of pottage nor a chaw ot tobacker Hows yo crap Jeems J Sorter wallerin with the crab grass an rasslin with the rag weed I woulder had it it all right but this nere trouble come on inc When a man is bowed down in tho sneret he aint thinkin of craps He isa thmkin of the shame that mout fall on him an take all the color outen his repurta tionYes Yes thats a fact Jeems What is all this about I asked turn ing to a longhaired fellow that sat neai where I stood Wall he answered leaning over and turning loose a squirt of tobacco extract that might have singed a cat Jeems Tim bony has shot a sheep an11 reckon hes in fur it They dont intend to hang him do theyNo No wusn that Theyll hit him about fifty lashes with a hickory an then make I HrtQ i J u u u 01 T LLT ll RAn A JtIXIT him work the country road some day when thars a hoss show in the neighborhood At this juncture the judge pounded on the table Come to order now The courts court-s about to put on the solemn gyarment of the law of this here free an mighty land an if any man so fur furgits himself as to interrupt the proceeding hell fall under the witherin displeasure of yourn truly Now lots git at this business fur this court has other affairs on hand This court must go some time this evenin an reprimand repri-mand a man that pizoned his dog Jeems as I said at the outset of this trial I never was more shocked in my life Fur many years we have knowd you to be reasonably reason-ably honest with generally a putty good dab of meat in yo smokehouse an vo kaint see why you should have killed the wider Daltons sheep Yes spoke up the widow who for the first time 1 noticed was present sitting in I a corner an a finer ram never blew his breath on a bunch of ponnyrile But here comes Jeems an shoots him an that too when hes got more meat than have an ho knows that Ive got three soninlaws to feed Jedge said Jeems if you will jest lei me have a minit I will fling a good deal of light on this here subject I dont deny a killin of the sheep Well then Jeems you neenter say no more Youve stated tho very fact that we air tryin to git at an thar aint no use in foolin along here no longer The court lows that it will hafter sentence you Jeems Not withoutgivin mea hearin Ihope toI dont see what good a hearin will do you when you have made that confession Wall jest listen to my talk an the meb by youll see I dont want to take up yo time so that you kaint meet tho feller that pizened yo dog but I do insist on havin a hearin Wall then go ahead but cut her short Jeems gout up roached back his long hair and thus addressed the assembly One cold winter night when the snow came down faster than you over seen chaff come outen a wheat fan I heard a bleatin noise an geing to the door I thought the sound come from the valley not fur from my house I told my wife that I had to g o down the valley because I heard a lamb cal in for help and let me say right here that II til T 1f frf tt m SENT ME SPRAWLING ON TilE GRoUND I may be bad in a good many things but no lamb ever called to me in vain I thought of Simon Peter that was told to feed the Lords sheep thought of it as I stood thar in the door with the snow adrivin past me into the house My wife said that I better not go out in sich a night specially as I want feelin very well j but 1 lowed that I couldnt sleep with the pitiful cry of that lamb aringin in my ears so I took my lantern an went down into the valley The snow was whirlin so fast that I could hardly see whar I was coin but at last I j 2 I ri I comin nearer an nearer to the bleatin I last found a little lhtnb with his head stickin out of a snow drIft III took him out his legs were frozen stiff as sticks I took him to the house and warmed him by the firegot a bottle of milk and fixed it so he could suck I fixed up a good fire so ho wouldntget cold durin the night an every time he would bloat I would get up an fix his bottle The weather staid cold for a long time an once when theold cow got out of the lot an wandered off au didnt come up in time to give milk for the lamb T searched for her on the mountain side an away down in the valley It was late when I got back Dome an long before I reached the house I heard the lamb ableatin He seemed to be powerful glad when I came in with the milk an the thought read in his eyes was II never will forgit you Wall tQ make a long story short 1 brought up that lamb till he was as fine a sheep as you ever saw an in every lookof his eyes he said that he would never forgit me We called him Bob an ho peared to like the name One day the next fall Nat Sarscaet that I owed five dollars come over to my house an lowed that he must have the money I didnt have it an told him so Just then Bob he come up Ill take this sheep says Nat an he done it in spite of all my beg gin an promisin that I would pay him as soon as I could get the money Last spring I heard that Nat had sold Boblo tho widder Dalton So much for tho first part an now for the second A day or two ago I was goin through the woods carr in a bag of corn on my back an all at once ker bip something took me au almost knocked mo lifeless As soon as I could git up I looked round an thar not mora than ten feet away stood Bob a shakin of his head Gracious alive Bob said I dont you know me He backed a little an jest as I expected to see the look that said he was ever goin to forgit mo ho shot at me an gave me a biff that sent me sprawlin on ho ground Ithink ho hit me three time bolero I could git up an then ho followed me to the fence a churnin me every jump of the wayan tickled I Wy I never saw a ram enjoy himself so in my life Well when I pot home I sot down an thought a long time about the ingratitude of this life ali then I thought I would teach that rascal ras-cal a lesson so I gotmy gun an went back down into tho woods 1 hold the gun be hind me an poked about Putty soon I aw Bob an ho saw me about the same time Here ho come I didnt say a word He was so tickled that ho thought bed stop an laugh a little before biffin me an be stopped an snorted with delight an jest then I ups with my gun I never say such a 1 surprised sheep When ho saw that I was fixed for him he tried to l jlt IN w11 1 a A 7 J 7l 7 i I I 1 I I 3 I vJ1 t j fl t I lf J ff I I U fr i Uii I i r ff I ff iT S e jrJ I I > f I I I J l l3 J I f9 f JrJ CII3 O II I jl j WAI1ED FOR HIM look lovia but I let him have it right between the eyes TKhts my statement tr edge an it shows that I want out attcr neat but revenge furL didnt even skin the rascal an now if you want to whip me and make me work on the county road all right Jeems said the judge any court that could have the heart toc nvict you oughter be hung Wider Dalton what hard you did with that sheeps meatl Ive got it at home Wall you po hoaieron roast a hin quarter of it This cbuhfran < Jeems air goin to take dinner with you tomcrrei OiiE P READ I |