“Come back here, and I’ll show yuh.”
I takes him back to the table, and shows him a line of lead letters setting there on the table. It’s the biggest in sight, and they reads:
EPITAF FOR MAGPY SIMPKIN. BRAVE
MEN AND DARN FULES DON’T SKARE.
HE WAS A DARN FULE MAY HE
REST IN PIECE
We walks almost to the door, when Magpie goes back and gets that stick and the can of ink.
“I’ll give him all the credit coming to him, Ike,” says he, and underneath Tombstone’s name he prints—
EDITOR PRO TEMPORE
Transcriber’s Note: This story appeared in the September 18, 1918 issue of Adventure magazine.