Jim Cummings - Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery by A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton
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"Who are you fellows anyway; can't you let peaceable travelers alone
without shooting their horses?" "Oh! you were peaceable travelers, were you? Well, now, that's strange, we took you to be some horse thieves that have been skurrying around these parts lately." "Do you think I look like a horse-thief?" indignantly. "Is that your own horse?" "Not exactly. I hired--" "Ah! yes, you hired it--they all say that--you hired it some time ago and have forgotten to pay the bill--" "Well, I didn't either, I hired it for a week, and--" "Really, Mr. Cook, you were going to make quite a visit--" "My name ain't Cook." "No? Let us call you Mr. Cook just for the sake of the argument. It's a good name, is Cook. I used to know a fellow named Cook once. He had a cooper-shop on the east bottoms, Kansas City. I went over to see him a week or so ago, and we had a high old time I can assure you. Cook was a very amusing gentleman. He could sing like Brignoli. What was that song he could sing so nicely? Oh! yes, I have it." "For we'll pass the bottle 'round When we've--" |
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