Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — A Strictly Texas Pleas antry. [ARTICLE]

A Strictly Texas Pleas antry.

Chicago Herald. A. P. Macauley, of Fort Worth, was in Greenville, Tex; ; a few days ago, selling to an old customer.- As he relates himself: “The strictly Texan joke that was

was played upon me while I ‘ was tilling that order would have caused a nervous man to have had St. Vistus’ dance in five minutes. I had just closed the deal and was preparing certain promissory notes for my customer to sign. Leaning over his front counter, I showed him the form of one of the notes, terms and conditions. Just then from the doorway a pistol shot was fired and a bullet cut its way through thecenter of the note, narrowly missing my customer and burying itself in some shelving. “Of course I looked around. Two burly cowboys stood at the door, each with a drawn gun, and one ol blank Yankee Can sell goods in this town,” and with that a shot whistled over my head and another hustled past my feet. Still another went into the ceiling. My customer did not seem to be very much disturbed but smiled in a deprecatory manner on the two. I concluded that it was best for me to stand still, but after a volley had been shot into-the wooden Ceiling and another into the floor I beckoned the entire outfit out of the back door, tlemen, barring a slight tendency to shoot at anything and everything. They bore me no ill will—only performed their little acts as a matter of humor.. But I had those notes signed without further delay and went on my way.”