A TENDERFOOT IN TOMBSTONE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4525, 6 July 1883, Page 2

A TENDERFOOT IN TOMBSTONE.

A few day* v» *#** TOO* aawfttm » Kutem«(«*>•Wi*lW*» e , A rum. w|| twffiataired U» nub s* Om principal! betel. A socially ioclined peteo* in a blue shirk and wide-rimmed hit, who chanced to b«ratbeeffice,|Mo4*ttat«redl7 answered erery question andt&«uiteefed avaatdealof interestuiginfor^tm *be«t Arizona jn general and TombaiaMi in Articular. ' , 'Do you »cc them hills?' asked the Tombstoner, '^•mting,throash <mm>oC the office winifcirfl. 'Well, thisi hith » cbook fall of pay dirfci" The young man from, the East looked shocked. > f - ''.""•., ' \

'My dear sir/ he said <*tlmly, bat proudly, • you should say "those hill* are" —not,'them hills is!" * J -" The Tombstofaer wassilent forajKUßMt He looked the young man from- the- Eajfct critically over As if be was estkaatmgtlie size coffin he would wear. Then drawing out an ivory- stocked «ev*n shooter of elaborate style, and Sntib.he sauf in a soft, mild, musical tone bf, voice 4bjtf sounded like a wildwood brisk Awning o'er its pebble bed; 'My getttie, unfalted tenderfoot from the land of the rising sun, this here's a pint that yon and, me disagrees on, and we might -as we'll We it settled right now. I hav#n,t looked in a m»mar lately, but I My * them hills is is correct, and I'm going toistand by that opinion while I've got a shot left. I'll give you just three minutes to think calmly over the subject, for you probably spoke in baste the first time, and theu, I'll hear your decision.' "• . / , 3 The young man from the-East rooked dowo the delicately<chaWd 'barrel' of the revolver into the plaoid depths of the eye of the Tombstoncr and began to feel that many points in grammar are uncertain and liable, to grow more so. Then he tbovgfct of the Coroner's inqnest and of the ver« diet,' Came to hig death by ttaading in front of Colorado Ton*'§ aevea-ahooter,' and the long pine box goiojr Bast by express with 69d0l oharges on it, and before half the three minutes was up he was ready to acknowledge bis error. ' Since, be had thought it over calmly,' he said. 'he believed that" them hills is." is right. He had spoken on the spur of the> moment,' he added, 'and begged a thousand pardons for his preetmptuoaa effort to substitute bid ' grammar for good.' The Tombtttoaar for^av* him fnely k and, gtaspmg his haad, Milt: _ I knowd you'd aaj ytm^wm mm* after yoo thoaeh* « «oeje«, |ed«iWT njn who gives tight m wjtkjat «m|ml when W knows bf's wtom. lOim f&S and irrigate.' And taeyirrHjeted.