TUSooner
2/1/2007, 01:11 PM
The "watch what you drink thread" reminded me of a great short story I read in school back in the pleistocene age. Maybe somebody can remember reading it and tell me its name or author or something.
It's set in the late "Old West" or some rural setting in the late 1800's, I think. There's an illiterate bad-guy bully who always makes life miserable on the storekeeper (or something). To make the short story shorter, the storekeeper arranges for Bully to transport some barrels of wood alcohol (the deadly non-drinkable stuff) to somewhere. He knows (or plans, hopes, or all of the above) that dumd-azs illiterate Bully will be unable to resist the temptation to tap into the barrel of "alcohol" and get drunk. Bully keeps true to form and is found poisoned, frozen and dead by the roadside. Mr. Storekeeper says "good riddens" or something like that. Anybody know anything about that story?
It's set in the late "Old West" or some rural setting in the late 1800's, I think. There's an illiterate bad-guy bully who always makes life miserable on the storekeeper (or something). To make the short story shorter, the storekeeper arranges for Bully to transport some barrels of wood alcohol (the deadly non-drinkable stuff) to somewhere. He knows (or plans, hopes, or all of the above) that dumd-azs illiterate Bully will be unable to resist the temptation to tap into the barrel of "alcohol" and get drunk. Bully keeps true to form and is found poisoned, frozen and dead by the roadside. Mr. Storekeeper says "good riddens" or something like that. Anybody know anything about that story?