Show A HIPPOCKET MORAL iI I i The worst licking I ever got In my life was for throwing my hand behind me Bald a man from Kentucky and the wonder Is that I got off with my life I had been hanging around a llttl station In Todd county waiting for a train and being a stranger In that region re-gion of the State I had but little to say to the men who stood around the depot I will not mention tho name ot tha place for J might by some stranga throw of the dice have to go back there again but I will remark by the way that the men of that section had a reputation rep-utation for shooting on but slight provocation pro-vocation and this was one reason why I did not care to net Into conversation with the men around the depot Ton can nevor tell you know when a friendly friend-ly chat is going to wind up in a riot in i Kentucky least In certain sections ot the State I felt that I was in Just I such a section on the day In question I held my tongue But along about train time a mediumsized man approached t ap-proached me and made a remark which I did not quite catch Whats that I asked him sharply and at the same time 1 threw my hand behind me and reached down in my hip pocket Before I fully realized It something was happening hap-pening to me and It was of a furious anti fast nature The Kentuckian had simply crawled all over me He swept the depot platform with me almost in a Jiffy When he let go I was In bad condition to take the train My clothea were covered with dust my face waa limbed and black and I was otherwise In an ugly condition l Did I try to pull had a a pistol No Indeed I never pistol with me and had no Idea of getting get-ting Into uny sort of trouble at the moment mo-ment I had simply reached into my hip pocket for a chew of tobacco but the Kentuckian evidently thought I was reaching for a gun He was taking no chances and he gave mo one of the best i mauUnsu T ever sot The moral of 1 this talc Is Keep your hUd from your I hip rocket while In Kentucky New Orleans lImes Dcmocrat |