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Show DOC THAT COULD BITE. Singular Eiorptlnn to the Kule Found in a ileal ( owbuy. T( xas 61ftin?s. I lie cowboy left his cayuse at the door and sauntered in his manly, open way up to the bar. "Got the dust?" asked the barkeeper suspiciously, without a sign of fear. "Got the dust?" ho be you in-sultin'? in-sultin'? Guess you don't know me. I'm a he chicken of the great hen bird of freedom, 1 am. When I scratch for worms the gravel llies. Do you hear me warble?'' "Yes, I've heard coyotes." "But ye never beard tliem in front of to. Produce the ticker." "Lay out the sand." "Miist the talons of the noble chick tend the soil while his piuious beat the air. or will you produce tho beverage? Last call." "Come now you git," said thu barkeeper bar-keeper as he came from behind the bur with a brass faucet in his hand. When the barkeeper got up oft the floor one sleeve of his c:;at was gone and boih boots wore oil', while the loungers who had been in the room were outside looking in through the bar windows. "Say, neighbor," said the barkeeper, as ha" limped back behind the ba; , "we've got three kinds of red licker and two of white. Which'il ye have?'' The cowboy drank his firewater, and after he left the barkeeper remarked to ouo of his regular customers: "Darned if that ain't Che first man I ever struck that could blow and light both." |