Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-07-23
The Culinary art i'm the Texas
PrairieS.

The Culinary art i'm the Texas
Prairies.
The following graphic accoun, OF the straits
TO which The Texan Rangers are sometimes re-
duced for cooking materials, addresses itself to
"lhe charity that believe,h all hings"-never-
,heess many things have had their day as sooh,
which are not quite as credible this. There
is no compulson intended upon the credit of
any body, though the story, all must admit, is
easier of deglu,;.ion than the meat when roasted.
MArAMoRAs, June l3. 1916.
Race nags may be found among the Texas
Volunteers, yet the funniest fellow Of all is a
happy -go-lucky chap named Bill Dean, one of
Chevallier's spy company, and said 10 be one
of the best "seven-up" players in all Texas
While at Corpus Christi, lot OF us were sill
ting out on the sioop of the Kinney House,
early one morning, when along came Bill Dean.
He did not know single soul in the crowd,
although he knew we were all bound for the
Rio Grande ; ye, the fact that the regular for
maIites of an introduction had no, been gone
through with, did not prevent him stopping
shor. in his walk and accosting US. His speech,
or harangue, or whatever i, may be termed, will
lose much in the telling, YET will endeavor 10
pu, it upon paper in as good shape as possible.
'Ob, yes,' said he, with knowing leer Of
the eye, 'oh yes; all goin down among The rob-
bers on the Rio Grande, are youl Fine times
you'll have, over the left. I've been there, my
self, and done what good many Of you won'l
dol come back +: bu. if | did'n, see material
h-lI-in August a, that-l am teapot. Lived
eish. days on one poor hawk and three black
berries. couldn't kill prairie rat on The whole
route 10 save US from starvation The ninth
day come, and we struck a small streak o
good luck--.a horse give out and broke down
plumb out in the centre Of an open prairie---no
stick in sight big enough to tickle rattle
snake with, lei alone killing him. just hac
time to save the critier by shooIin' him, ant
that was all, for in three minutes longer he'e
have died material death II didn't take Us
long TO butcher him, nor long to cut off some
chunks of mea, and stick EN- on our ram-rods
but the cookin' was another matter pllet
up heap Of prairie grass, for j. was high ant
dry, and sol i, on fire but it flashed up like
powder and wen, out as quick. But
But pu, in one of his hearers, but how die
YOU cook that horse meat after that!'
! How!
Yes, howl'
why, The fire caught the high grass close
by, and the wind carried the flames streakin
across the prairie. followed up the fire, hol
ding nv chunk of meat directly over the tio:
tes, part Of the blaze, and The way We wen,
was caution 10 anything short of lncomotiv
dolns. Once in while little furry of win
would come along, and the fire wo0ld get fe,
yards the starr; but I'd brush upon her, lap he
with my chunk, and then we'd have i, agair
nip and tuck You never seed such ugt
race---il wa, beautiful
very, we've no doubt, ejacula'ed one Of tn
listeners, inIerrupting the mad wag just in sea
son TO give him lille breath but did you coo
; your mea, in the end 2
Not bad didn't chased lha, d-n fir
a mile and half, the almighIiest hard race 20
] ever heer'd on, and never gave ii up until ru
: right into wet marsh; there the fire and chun
J of horse meat came out even--a dead heat, e:
( pecaly the meat
But. WASH, it ,ooked? put in another
the listeners
Cooked no.-jusl crusled over ll'le.-
y You don't cook broken down horse flesh ver
easiv. no how; but when il comes TO chasiI
+ up prairie fire with chunk OF 1t, | don
+ know which is toughest, The meat or The lo