| Show an explanation we have been severely criticized criticised because we refused to attend the fui fu i iceal of old pete who died on hll wa acs m old pete was our creditor in the sama of 12 and that it was shabby in us not to see him planted in the first place old pete owed ns 2 borrowed money instead of our owing him in the sunday pantaloons needed patch about jour feet square at the ead opposite the bow and we did not care to eject ourselves to ridicule for the sake oe showing off we can keep our back behind us in our own office until better times arrive and what we are trying to do we have sent to san franicsco for a patch the color of our pantaloons and when it arrives and is folded on the spot bichard will be himself again and ready lo 10 rustle at funerals or address a public meeting on the topics of the day three times daring the laboc monah wo have surprised ourselves and the public by mopping the floor with assailants sai lants while on two occasions we have taken to flight we state it as a physiological fact thai there anra times when we had as lief fight a dozen men and other timas when we would run from good sized boy parties planning to lick us be prepared to take their chances we a lion or run like a jack cabbil tony society pretended to be all upset last week because colonel de claire was arrested arre sled for a horse thief and taken 0 o nebraska to stand trial it was only a pretense we have known for months past that the colonel was a beat and an impostor and many others it he sent an order for a new hat as soon as he arrived here and thus put us under obligations not to give him away the hat grew old and rusty after a time and as the colonel come in with a cash subscription we felt that we had given him room enough we just dropped a hintta the sheriff of henry county and a week later the colonel had the irons on arizona kicker |
