| Show when pinkeye pink eye simpson took water itras away back in the when they were still working placer dirt on tiger crick an weighing out gold dust tor plug ter backer in grosenbeck s store that I 1 saw pink eye simpson take water said the old prospector he gasn wasn t addicted to them potations an I 1 don t know that anybody ever give him a subsequent invite to the same without fer the central in a coroner s inquest still pink eye took water doncet A feller blew in with a sloppy chi nook along one december the boys congregated in grosenbeck s in the front part he kep his bar in front an his store in the i ear so s ter ketch em goin an comin when the feller fust come in ve all took him ter a kid he was all bundled up in a little boffola coat an had a fur cap pulled down over bis ears I 1 don t reckon he was much more n four foot high an when he got that coat ed an his cap pulled off there gasn wasn t a great deal left of him but he a man a mighty sour faced red nosed red eyed hump back ed runt but he had got his growth he looked around him as fierce as an en raged chipmunk an then walked up to the bar an called fer a drink grosenbeck grinned as he set the bottle out I 1 reckon we all smiled some he looked so sorter lous amusin youa squeaks the lit tie man maybe you find my pers nal appearance a mirth I 1 auz because I 1 hap py says grosenbeck quite meek you ve ly skinned somebody good an plenty then says the little man dounn out a bath an howerin it that s the rottenest amita alon lacker ever I 1 run accost any i belt fer bawl n says he a few min utes later grawin the ends of his next day mr wallis lumped dan ny cassady s claim an began develop ment work danny went up with a winchester ter run him off an comes back thankful that mr wallis had let him keep the gun then he diverted the water the thaw had started from Gilli cuddy s flumes the time he made pink eye simp son take water when pink eye barted out on hs spring saturation mr wallis was in grosenbeck s select in his weekly grub supply when pink not scein him on account of him bein hid behind a length a stovepipe call ed everybody to the bar any son of a gun who hangs back 11 be made too leaky to hold licker he yells mr wallis heard him an emerged from behind the stovepipe an strutted up ter pink eye do I 1 understand that this invite is compulos rya he asks have I 1 got ter drink because a hu man hyena with a of alcoholic swill an a bryin need of a hair cut makes a bluff at homicidal maniac not if you d prefer not to says pini eye I 1 d esteem it an honor but I 1 don t insist on it my remarks were in a jocularity you ve a poor sense humor sas mr wallis you re enough of a joke yourself without it by A man who d drink with you would git down into a trough an eat with hogs that s what he said to pink eyed simpson an lived an he acted in that ou tragis way fer nigh on ter three months it went on until finally grosenbeck been picked on moren usual an called fer a drink body that d accuse you ellan whis by would be a aar don t look cross eyed at me ou tat faced hippo pota mus charge that ter mr walls my same an im coln ter taked up my residence in this yer camp I 1 now grosenbeck gasn wasn t no slouch when it came ter resenting res entin an insult an he generally gine rally took a prelim nary request fer credit as an insult for bar goods I 1 ve seen him mal e a mighty rapid showing with a gun an himself creditably jn a free fer all rough an tumble bu he dian didn t make no hostile plays tha teatime time whatsoever he jest looked at the tittle sawed off wisp fer a moment an then he says your credit s good mr wallis glad ter be favored with yer custom have another with me wait till I 1 m better acquainted with you afore I 1 drink with you says mr wallis he went out we watched him lead his mule back along the hill to billy Thor sens cabin which lly MUS off on a pros pectin trip in the crazy loon range berned it he dian didn t kick in the door an carry in his plunder grosenbeck had been lerin hard which was his way when ager bated what is a man goin ter do with a ven ermous peanut built rack skin an bones like thata he says I 1 could squeeze the breath life out of him with my finger an thumb like dittin a six months kid a one evenin said he d be everlastingly it he d stand it any long er see here mr walls he says I 1 m through with you I 1 make no un hind ter your contour and proportions were they otherwise you have lasted five minutes after you struck this camp I 1 m not a goin ter jump on you an grind yer inter the floor an I 1 m not a goin ter break yer in two me bein a full size man but I 1 m goin ter take you accost my knee an spank you like a mean young one in this I 1 have the full approval of the camp with that he reached out for mr but mr walls gasn wasn t there he was extraction extrac tin a pick handle from a barrel an the nex linit that pick handle come inter contact contac with grosenbeck s cranium an laid him out you all approve do youa yells mr wallis an here he come at us with the pick handle he got four of us the rest of us all left abrupt we come to our senses in about five minutes all but grosenbeck an with the that the pore remnant of humanity able ter take his own part in a game phyll cal vl lence he made a rush ter billy thorsen s cabin ter git him he husn t in when tom Gilli cuddy went ter feed his horse next mornin the only good horse in camp the horse husn t in either that the last we ever saw mr walls chicago news |
