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Show TilEY POUND EfGn•r DOLLAR . e · A FTEH brcakfa 't I wanted to talk a bout the dead man and gue. s out how h co1n to be killed, but Jim didn't want to. lle ~aiel it 1\~oulcl fetch bad luck; and be ide. , he said, he 1night come and ] 1a'nt u. ; he said a nmn that waru·t buri d wa 1norc likely to go a-ha'nting around than one that was planted and comfortable · That sound eel pretty reasonable, so I didn't ny no more; but I couldn't k ep from studying over it and wi hing I knowed who shot tbe man, and what \V they done it for e ruininagecl the clothes 'd t d . in silver sewed np . tl . r _we go , an found eight dollars J' . d h 111 le 101ng of an old blanket overcoat. liD sai e reckoned the people in that house stole the coat, Till? Jt'I1YIJ. l l because. if they·c~ a know cl Lh~ 1non y was thcr th y wouldn •t a . lef, t 1t. I saul I r ckon d th y killed hi1n ' too., b n t Jl'J U d1dnt want to talk about that. I ays: "No\v. you think it': bad luck; but what dicl you say when I fetched In the snak:-ski~ that. I ~ound on the top of t11 ridgP day before yesterday? lou sa1d 1t \Vas the worst bad luck in the world to touch a snake- ·kin \Yith rny hand . \V ell, here's yo~r bad lucl~ ! \Y e've raked jn all this truck ancl eight dollars b Ides. I Wl 1t \ve coultl hare :·o1ne bad luck like this ~v ry d ay, J1. m. " "Never you 1nind, honey, nev r you rnincl. J)on 't you git too pcart. It's a-contin ·. ~I ind l te 11 you it s a-eotnin . '' It did co1n , too. It "\Yas a Tn.e day that we had that talk. vVe1l, after dinner }'riday, \Ve was laying around in the gra · at the upper end of the ridge, and g t out of tobacco. I went to the cavern to get som , a1Hl fonncl a rattle nake in th rc. I killed him, and curl d hitn up on the foot of .1irn' blank t, ever so natural, thinkino- i.hcr '<1 be son1e fun " ·h n Jim fonncl u him there. \Yell, by night I forgot all about t.h snake and when Jim flung hitnsclf down 011 the blanket wl1ilc I 'truek ~ light, the snak 's 1natc \ras t her , and bit hin1. lie jump eel up yelling, and the iirst. thing t h light slwwed was the varmint curled up and re,ldy for a not hc\r prin 0' . ] laid hin1 out in a seconcl with a stick, aud J itn grabb d ~>ap\~ whisky jug and begun to ponr it clown. lie was barefooted, and 1 h ~ snake bit hin1 right. on th heel. That all come of 1ny being such a fool a· io noL r - member that wherever you leav a dead nake it nude alway come" there and curls arountl it. Jim told 1ne to chop off th snake's head and throw it away, and th n skin the b dy and roa t a piece of it. I Llon it and he eat it ancl said it would help cure him. J[e mad 1ne tnk off the rattles and tie thern around his wri::,t, too. lle ·aid that that would help. Then I G |