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Show I TRAMP LOST A GOOD THING. I'pfecllng Sheriff Drove Him Away From Piece of Luck. ' "I had n Kood thine of It once ffl Texas." said tho tt,:iiup uit he hunted throiii;h hi pocictn for n cfirar atc.o. "and It waa a sheriff who itlstied me out of It. "liowu there they hnvn the moat severe Inwa In any state, snd when I waa arrested one day 1 wss charged with hefn' a tramp, a vagrant, a home-Ion home-Ion person sud a suspicious character. charac-ter. On top of thai I bad built a roadside road-side fire, aikcd. for food and thrown alone at a dot.. J na convicted on every charge, and after flgurln' for a inltilt tlio judge rnlled nut : '"I nnd the pi Is. .ncr guilty on all count, and he Is sentenced to Jail for seventy years.' "I was looklu' for a long rest when Cin sheriff took tux over to the jail, but I lindn't been In the place fifteen minutes when he handed me a crowbar crow-bar sud pointed to the wall and said: " Hlg out of this aa soon as yuu rsn.' "Hut I'm lure for seventy years,' says I. "'You nln'e here for seventy mlnlls. If you ain't out before supper time I'll come In with a rlun and break your neck. D'ye 'spose I'm K"I"K to have you hniutln' around here for any seventy sev-enty years? flit In work.' "I wouldn't ihi It." snld the trump, "not wlHliln' to work myself out of a long job, and when that sheriff saw I wouldn't ne Jest hitched up Ills boss snd buggy, run me out on a prairie fifteen nillea from anywhere aud dumped me out. "It took me two dnys lo git hack to jail acnin, nnd I hadn't scarcely kicked on tho door when ho put two bullets through my lint and IIiiiir nin nut fifty - tils. hi.iI I bad to let go and head for Hiilius. "That seventy years In Jul! would have been a pnt bund for me. but luck was an In my sliiln' in the game and I don't pxpt-rt to ever tumble over another good thing while I live." |
