SCARED A DRUMMER

Mr. Williams said he used to work in the hotel office there. He had a counter with cigars and candy. He kept a collection of pistols and among them had a "dragoon," a large flintlock affair about as long as your arm. One night he was tinkering with it. A traveling man was sitting on the veranda and the gun accidentally went off and hit a post and knocked splinters all over the traveling man, who thought someone was cracking down on him.

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