Show SHORTY BEAR A Palti painful ful result of on the martof piert of sol the landlord chicago inter ocean SOLS RIDGE PH pit april 18 A good many folks thinks when they see shorty short ryerson for the fus flus time that some time titue or other he must ha hat been kayin iu in the sor mill whar tho the log had orter been with the mill a goin full split but that aint it said old sol land landlord to rd at the tavern at sols ridge shorty ryerson lad just gone out there was nothing remarkable about ilia his appearance axce except pt that he lie was wits less than five feet high and that every square inch of one side eide of his face was a scar sear no that want it said old sol ye sec see goin enter five year ago I 1 bad had a tame bar var an kep kept him chained to that pole out in the tile road him an shorty wad was etick lar good friends an when shorty want doin bothin winch which wis was benerly ge from daylight one mornin till daylight next morning count countin fi ill sundays hew he war arout out boolin with that bar cuddle down together ango an go to sleep steep shorty an the bar would jes as fatral zif if they war both bars and it got so that when shorty shorty happened to be away fur ten minutes the tile bard git so ineasy that hear him beller better like a baby all round tho the ridge shorty I 1 famed arned the bar a il heap ot 0 smart tricks an business W wasa half the time an the folks all out a batchin him the bar through what he knowd the thing that tickled me most was the matches shorty and the bard give shorty had larnt wat bar to stan and spar with him ez natural as life and I 1 swan ef it want a sight good fur a life time to cea sea em stand an bat away at one another cz ez ef cf they was a fightlin figh tin fur money an the stakes was up nother thing that chat illy take the town down was the way that bar bai would walk into the tavern with shorty when anyone invited him to take sum stan long side 0 him and take his glass 0 rum cz good ez the rest on cm em thet bar war a harvest fur shorty fur everybody come along would hat haf to call shorty t and solomon shorty named ake the bar solomon because he knowd so terrible much call shorty an solomon in to have Cons constence kence was thet both shorty an the bar bed their ruthless less skins full booty much all the time they got to be the hardest drinkers on the ridge 11 an I 1 usety say that the fust thing knowd they both pit git the jams wall wal 1 by and by shorty an tho the bar got to be a nuisance I 1 got tired a feenin cm em performing per formin out in the road an rum anthe an alie whole town spendin spen din its time watch in em an I 1 threatened time an agin to shoot the durn bar var an stop the hull business but I 1 hated to do it an kep up with it and it out cussin shorty illuk commenced business with tile bar long iong about daylight an the fust thing on the pro program ram were allez ft match one nice mornin in june shorty come aluf fin down ez usual to begin begill tho the days work the bar var were cuddled up round the pole shorty gave ave him a whack on the side bide an anja kotlers hoT hollers lers out come solomon git up an put up your flip flippers pers the bar got up an put up his flippers ye see whar that panel 0 board fence is up by the ben house well shorty war picked up right the they y took him hum bum an sewed h his fil face cc up ez good ez they could and the bo bar ar wera were gono gone when shorty came back to the tavern three weeks after he ile never aked asked no moro more question questions capt to say eay solomon must ha hal had the jams he lie yo ic tee see the night afore the bar put up his flippers to shorty ez I 1 told ye an arter everybody had gone hum lium th ill were a peddler como come iong long to stop ull till night ho he had a durn r ug ugly ly bar wite with him that lie alicd d traded fur au all the idee struck me ine to swap wap solomon fur that bar nud 10 to boot an all I 1 did the now bar war chait chained led to tho the pole finby daylight next nex mornin solomon on hia his way east et an ye see I 1 fargot to send word to shorty bout the dicker |