Show Wigo Wi We write this editorial just as We go to press and as we write it we webe webe be sitting up in bed with our face tied up in a towel and a terrible headache You ca can bet your boots that we feel that this editorial which we be going to o write is needed or orve we ve wouldn't write it at ajl Last week Lafe Packard come into the Bugle office with a all wrote up about his neighbor Amzi Doolittle It seems seems- that Amzi and Lafe have had some trouble about the boundary line betwixt their re n respectful farms as to whether the theline theline line went on one side or the other of a Northern Spy apple tree They have have- trouble every fall about the i ti e Northern Spies get ready to top p pick ck about their boundary line They have went to law about it several several sev sev- eral times and have spent more money than a whole orchard of Northern Spy apple trees is worth to have the ques question on settled which aint settled yet they haven't spoke to each other ther for f r years neither have the women folks nor the chil chil- dren r ell this which Lafe Laie wrote was a slander on up H tj y It was a kind of a It went on and reviewed Amzi's history from the time he was knee high to a duck telling about how mean and stingy he allus was and how he had swindled had swindled the and the their fortunes and left them without a rag to their back Lafe wanted us to put it into the Bugle Being as we was short of news anyhow we done so and didn't think no more about it until yesterday yes yes- ay morning when h n the office off ce door opened and Amzi walked in without knockin He was hard and was terrible red in the face Good morning Amzi we says to him pleasant how hows the world using a-using you at present hey Dont Don't you try none of your soft oft so soap P. P on me says Amzi what wh t did you write that about me in the thel thelast l last st weeks week s Bugle fort for tell me th that t J We Ve didn't write it we says it it was Lafe Packard who wrote it 99 Well Vell his name wasn't signed to it an and so Ill I'll hold you personal responsible re re- for it says Amzi Oh well then go ahead and hold us responsible if you want to we says gitting kind gitting-kind kind of hot und under r rhe the he collar We Ve hadn't enny more than got the words our mouth than Amzi hauled off his coat and slammed it down on the floor and come at us We W was just a aad aad ad for Hen Weathersby's general store from rom the imposing stone to the press when Amz struck ruck us T Tad The Thead ad went into a thousand of pi and spilt all over the floor Amzi and us clinched and in the scrimmage scrimmage scrim scrim- mage we into a keg of printers print ers ers' ink h half way to our knee and andoor upset the ink an over the floor an anthen and then Amzi tripped us up and we both fell down into the ink and wal- wal in it in our efforts to get on top of each other Fate was against us and so Amzi he rolled roIled us over and clim astraddle of us and set there and punched our our face and nd him with his hands oYer ink too and asked aske us to apologize po in the Bugle for what we said or he would injure US u S so tn that t twe we wo would ld be a cripple for life Under the circumstances circum circum- stances we promised to apologize which we do het herewith with by saying that if all Lafe Packard wrote about Amzi aint true we are mis mis- taken Amzi Amzi then got o n. n u us and nd out without saying a word One of our eyes was shet by this time and a couple of front teeth was loose As for the ink it got all aU over our clothes and is on em yet It also got in our hair and we th the only way we can get It out is to have our hair cut and this will I likely ly give us a cold in our ur head to get our hair cut this time of year In conclusion we ve wish to sav say that hereafter when our subscribers nave any grudges against each each oth other oth-I oth othIer I er they aint going a-going to make no paw cats us a second time by writing up things against each other and having us print them and md therefore therefore there there- fore become responsible for same ame Let st them fight it out then themselves selves hereafter What do ye we care which side of the Northern Spy apple tree the boundary line between Lafe Packard and Amzi is on We VI e anca an- an answer that we don t ca cayet care a hang and yet here we be in bed with two teeth loose and a black ck eye and a ache Su Subscribe for the BugIe |