Capturing Bad Bill

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Bill was such a bad man that the insurance companies would not let their clients run for sheriff of Mustard County and the mayor had to advertise the job. Even then there were no applicants until Pete Pepper, tired of feeding Bill and then having his restaurant shot up, took the job and the badge. Bill was a man of his word. He promised to pay the funeral expenses of the sheriff and right away he sent an undertaker to measure Pete for a coffin, which so cheered Mary, Pete's wife, that she bought a widow's cap and weeds, which cheered Pete a whole lot. But he was not such a fool after all. He knew that Bill would continue to favor him with his patronage and the first time he did so Pete doped his coffee. As the other brave citizens were holding an indignation meeting, because Pete let Bill throw scrambled eggs in his face, Pete delivered Bill nicely done up in a clothes line and then went back home to kick Mary's mourning out of the window.