The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-14
FUNNY NOTES ON TEXAS.


Texas is emphnt cally the land Of ponies
and doves. There axe more of ootn than have
ever $ en- anywhere else. The former are small,
ragged. Of vafiegatcd color, ana vicious. Ihey
are Inexpensive. selling. acc tuing To size ana
quality, at from four to ten, aud even twenty-five
dollars. the doves abound. They bWld their
nests III the praries where trees are scarce, on
the ground, ana between the rails Of the fences.
saw four nests IN one fence corner. and more
than twenty In one small post oak. Numerous
pHrtridges, san In hOcks, wnirred across the
road, especially In the mesquite country Ibis
fIvOrite little tird Is said to be found by the
hundreds of thousands In the country between
Sin Antonio ana the Rio GTlDde-a fl ck. "A
f1end told me, under every mesquite bush, and
the bushes close together l saw u few chapar-
raj cocks, splendid looking fellows, the color o
a prairie cnicHen, some~nat llrger, ana with a
long tail He's almost as Haet OF foot as an IS
tricl, flies reluctantly, anu but for short dis
tances. HIS safety against ms enemies lies in
the density Of the cover he keeps. ana his speed
when found III open ground. His wings don't
appear tn De OF any special use To him, further
he leaves uehind him with astonishing CELEBRITY.
Inc mucNng bird Is abundant, US Is also "A bird
called here tine brd Of var disc, beautiful lit
tie fellow with an eNtravdg ntiy long tail, which
really seems to impede MS light. Add about
STA Inches Of tail feathers to "a small mocking-
biTu. ana give him dun wnlte breast, and you
nave TINS cnap.
Blackurds by the thousands at times darkened
the ar, anu crowded the heels Of the plough
man. whiie Tue uulet d plover : To be seen In
81 The new'y pluugued iand nd throughout the
prarics. No one WAC has not eaten TINS ueh-
cious oifd al Tons See son ia Tex can have any
ideIof what a uthcAcv IL IL. lie - hunted In
Ouggics on Oaeu wagons, II beng Impossible to
get sufficiently near him either on foot or on
horseback.
\ wurl + san Antonio. took supper In a
NeXican eltn- no Sc. You never ate cnth nddd,
did your hope you never will. You never ATE
tdmdlllS did yOIg Well, don't. An CHchUddd
looks not unlike IN Drain ~ flannel cake rolled
Oh Itself ana covered with mOiassts. Tue iugre-
dleuis which 20 to make II up are pepper, I've
huming, pepper. onions chopped fine, pepp, T,
erdted cheese, ana pepper. he hOniny l. first
Oeaten into a p ste or dough, and THIS Is HAT
tened To about the thickness OF IA ordinary bat
ter cake, and then turned several lines upon
ltseli, the pepper, onions, pepper, cheese, aud
pepper bting pl ced between the folds. and oN r
AL - poured sauce or gravy ol pep ,er. In
point of iooks. the cnchilIdd IL. A. / have inti-
iDtied, not uninViting, IN point OF taste. II Is
cross between blcafUun tie II sOua and Z fp-lcum.
Inc tdlndUis, when placed on the table, pre-
senteu tuc appear nee of u lot Of huge shuck
cigarettes whicl h Il been soaked Ia w.ter.
lueN were cumposei OF the same I've hOminy
pAste, SNAPPED into cylinders "a little lar ger than
and aOout as long as your finger, cont iuing
some KIND Of forced meat. L. Ch cylinder is
WI ppcd and then boiled IN IA corn shuck md
served in TINS envelope. y friend VINO was vi h
me, and who declared no WIS not particularly
fond u tie uisn, though ne often tte n, soon
had Pile Of wet shu rs 10y his plate SIX lncuts
nigh think he ATE a dozen Of tho things.
VS. satisfied with snln part OF one. The
tfntiNts tasted to mo very much as | suppose
bored maccArunt, thickencd with bread soda
would do. Ay opinion Is That no man can cat
tHctiddt and tdniIhis long aud main honest.
The three staple 40 Mexican cookery, ~ Oh
served II, ar pepper, com ana pe Der; the corn
J. sHnuw icutu between The pepper. The corn a.
trSt hu~ktd ~ tVlug sNahrG III I've or lime
M.ier, .nd theu orlsAh rubbed and Ueatcn ON q
uougn, ot meal, me .ner than auJ be hom!ny in
IuulduapOlls.