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This tough guy is from the rock quarries of Hard-scrabble county wherever that may be. The men there are so tough they crack big rocks Just by spitting on them. When a blast Is set off the men get right in the middle of It with 10-year-old white oaks in their hands batting the flying boulders'around or else playing catch with them without any gloves. Their family life is not without charm, since they whip the children with barbed wire until the brats are 10 years old. After that age it Is the children who do the whipping.

STRANGERS are afraid to travel into the rock quarry country because the few venturesome ones who tried it never came back to tell the tale. What is worse, however, Is that occasionally the quarry men come to town. Whenever that happens everybody but invalids, little children and cripples takes to the hills until the danger is past. One day a lone wolf got right into town before anybody noticed him. He was riding two snarling panthers, a foot on each, and lashing them with a whip made of three six-foot rattlesnakes knotted together.

He suxxi a good eight feet without tiptoeing and didn't have enough fat on him to grease a one-egg skillet. He made for a shoe store and bought some brogans and then the hardware store to get a mess of tough roofing nails. He hammered the nails right through the soles of the shoes before putting them back on. "That's the way 1 like it," he explained, "it gives you a good grip and all you got to do when your foot itches is to wriggle it around a bit." HIS next errand was to the barber shop to get prettied up, but of course the barber had to go borrow the tinsmith's shears to cut his hair and the plumber's blowtorch to give him a shave. Then the saloon.

The bartender knew enough to get down his strongest brand of fortyrod. Some of it sloshed over on the bar and ate through the varnish, but it failed to please our tough friend. "None of that bellywash for me. I'd as soon have a pinky, sticky ice cream soda with a cherry on it Gimme a pmsslc acki cocktail with a little sulphuric for a chaser." After tossing off a few the visitor got in a better humor and began amusing himself by spitting on the floor and burning holes right through to the ground underneath. Soon the bartender asked hopefully if the visitor expected to return to the quarries before nightfall.

But the quarryman shook his head sadly and said he didn't reckon he would ever go back. riiO console himself he snatched a can of tomatoes off the shelf and gulped it down without bothering to chew It open. "Don't it lay right heavy on your stomach, stranger?" asked the bartender, awful unhappy because the quarry-man wasn't leaving. "Not long," the tough man answered. "I soon digest the can from around the tomatoes." "You aim to make your home here?" the bartender wanted to know, still hoping he had heard wrong." "Brimstone ami damnation, no, man!" said the quarry-man, so riled that he bit a foot-long chunk right out of the mahogany bar, spitting it in the bartender's face.

"I wouldn't live here for love nor money. I wouldn't be caught dead here." "Well then," came back the bartender, getting a little bolder, "why did you leave the quarries? Don't you like it out there?" "Aw, I dkln't want to leave, but 1 had to." had to? Why? Get into a fight or some kind of trouble there?" "A fight? Are you plumb stark tooney, man? Whoever heart! of a man getting Into trouble over fighting in the Hardscrabhle county rock quarries? Why, out that way we live on fighting before breakfast. Gimme another drink of prussic and hold the chaser this time." The bartender served him fearfully. The moody silence lengthened. He was afraid to break it but more afraid of not knowing what had impelled the stranger to leave his natural haunts.

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