The Express Gazette Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...doctor had asked him if he felt as though he was prepared to Shuffle. The man said he had always tried to lead a different life, and had tried to be done by the same-as he would do it himself, but that he might have made a mistake some way, and that he would like to have a minister sent for to take an account of stock. Then the doctor brought to the bedside the hat, opened up the sweat leather, and showed the dying man what it was that smelled so, and told him he was as well as any man in the city. The patient pinched himself to see if he was alive, and jumped out of bed and called for his revolver, and the doctor couldn't keep up with him on the way down town. The last we saw of the odoriferous citizen, he was trying to bribe the bar-tender to tell him which one of those politicans it was that put that slice of cheese in his hatlining--Exchange. The Vagabond who Neglected to Steal a Fortune. The tramp drank his glass of beer, lit his pipe, and said: " I was better off once--that is a little better off than you see me 'here to-night. 1 had decent clothes and a clerkship. I had a fortune once within my grasp, and I'll tell you how I threw it away; and this is how I threw it: The express office at Coyoteville was kept by one Jasper. Somehow, from dropping in daily at his place of business, I drifted into the position of assistant. He put in my charge nearly everything but the deposits of treasure, which were shipped regularly every morning by the stage to San Francisco. From $10,000 to $40,000 nightly found a temporary deposit in the office. I slept there. Jasper's house was some distance up the street. Still he kept the safe-key in his own hands and came at three o'clock in the morning darkness to ship the treasure. His was an indolent nature, and this ...