The North-Carolina standard., 1846-08-19
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MGrAMoRA6, june. Il

81 > S3!E4F sf; a., ,lt gdATAMoRAs, June tS4psy
Race nags may be found among the Texas vol.
unteers, yet the funniest fellow Of aflis happy.
go-lucky chap named Bill Dean, one of the Che
valliers spy company, and is said to be one ofthe
best seven -up"s players in all Texas. While AZ
Corpus Christi lot of US were setting oulsin the
stoop Of the Kinney. House. early one morning,
when along come Bill Dean. He did not know
a single soul in the crowd, although he knew we
were all bound to the Rio Grandei yet the fact
that The regular forhIaics Of an Introduction bad
not been gone through with did not prevent his
stopping short in his walk and accosting as. His
speech, Qr. harangue, or.whatever i lmay be term
ed, will lose much IN telling, YET T. will endeaVor
to pot il on paper in as good shape as possible.
Oh, yes, said he, with knowing lcerf of tho
eye,r oh yes, all goin' down among the robbers
on the Rio Grande, are you ? 2s Fine time ,goTU
have, over the left. I've been there myself and
done what good many of you wont dol come
back but if didn't see nateral hz-il, 10 August
at that-I an a tea pot. / lived eight days on
one poor hawk and three, blackberries-- couldn't
Kill prairie rat ON the whole route to save us
from Starvation. The ninth day come, and VIC
struck small streak Of, good lpek Ia horse gave
out and broke down. plumb ohi in the centre ofan
open prairie-not stick in sight big enough TO
tickle rattle with. LET alone killing him. just
had 10 time save the critter by shooliu' him, and
that was all: for IN three minutes longer he'd have
died q material death. Fl didn't take us long to
butcher him, nor long TO cut off some chunks of
meat and stick 'en on our ram-rods but the cook
ing was another matter. 1 piled up a heap of
prairie grass, for it was high and dry, and sot it
on fire but it flashed up like powder and went
out as quick. But---'' .ft
"fBui," put in one of his hearers, "but how did
you cook your horse meat after that o. -@r 3 ~
" How ?''a .'F.t ~. ~ 'l',''.
eyes, how7' ~. '...' .'I .f-..- 'l,f,
'"Why, the FIRE caught the high grass closely,
and wind carried the flames streakin' across the
prairie. / followed up the fire. holding. my
chunk of meat directly the hottest part Of the
blaze, and the way we went was caution 10 any
thing short of a locomotive doin's.- Once in a
while little furry Of wind would come along,
and the FIRE would get a few yards the start; but
I'd burst upon her, lap her with my chunk; aud
then we'd have it again, nip and tuck. You new.
er seed SIGH tight race-it was beautful.py
!. "Very, we've NO doubt," calculated one ofIthe
listeners, interruping the mad wag just in season
to give him d little breath shut did you cook
your meat in the end Q" 70 ti's@-f7a & e 7'5'l
Not bad / didn't chased that id fire
d mile and half the almighliest hardest race
you ever heer'd tell on, and never gave up until
run her right plumb into a wet marsh: therethe
fire and chunk of horse meat came out eyen-a
dead heat, especially the meat" 1aW
. But wasn't it cooked o. pnt in another Of the
listeners zAotiel
Htt Cooked no t-just crusted over a little You
don't cook broken down horse flesh, very easily,
10 how, but when il comes TO chasing upa prarie
FIRE with a chunk Of il, 1 don't know which is
toughest, the meat or the job, You'd have laugh
ed to spItyourselfs to have seen me in lhat race
Ito see the fire leave me at times and then to zee
me brushin' up her gain, hum pin and movin'
myself as though was Funnin' sagin some Of
those big ten nonlesan hour Gidersleves in the old
States. But Pm goin' over to Jack Haynes 70 get
a cocktail and some breakfast Il. see you all
down among the robbers on the Rio Grande"
And SO saying, Bill Dean staIked off, Isaw
the chap this morning in front Of a MexicapJon.
endeavering 10 convince him that he was Add
robber.n' Such is enc Of Bill Deans stories--is
could only make it as effective on paper as he
did in the telling, if would draw laugh from
those fond OF the ludicrous,l 4.l ~ CIV jE.iI