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It seems he had spent her money and slugged her and killed her canary bird , and told it around that she had cold feet . `` At the hotel we found a mass meeting of five infuriated citizens chewing tobacco and denouncing the outrage . Most of the town was asleep by ten o'clock . I talks the lady some quiet , and tells her I will take the one o'clock train for the next town , forty miles east , for it is likely that the esteemed Mr. Conyers will drive there to take the cars . ` I do n't know , ' I tells her , ` but what he has legal rights ; but if I find him I can give him an illegal left in the eye , and tie him up for a day or two , anyhow , on a disturbal of the peace proposition . ' `` Mrs. Conyers goes inside and cries with the landlord 's wife , who is fixing some catnip tea that will make everything all right for the poor dear . The landlord comes out on the porch , thumbing his one suspender , and says to me : '' ` Ai n't had so much excitements in town since Bedford Steegall 's wife swallered a spring lizard .