Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — Whar Was His Six-Shooter. [ARTICLE]

Whar Was His Six-Shooter.

A man in an Austin saloon, read out a newspaper account of a prize fight to a group of earnest listeners. Among the most interested listeners was an old frontiersman, who continually interrupted the reader with such ejaculations as: “What! knocked him down again?” “Did you say he hit him in the ohest?” Finally, when still another knock down was scored, he could stand it no longer, and called out in a perfect frenzy of excitement: * ‘ Whar in the was his six-shooter ?” —Austin Sittinga,