The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-23
the GRANGER AND THE BANANA.
GREEN RIVER, Wyo., March 20

GREEN RIVER, Wyo., March ~.
DEAR LEADER Il landed in this
quiet little burg a week ago, and have
since been taking my bearings. Agree
ably to a promise made while 1 was in
your city, 1 have taken a chair and ia
BILE and will spoil some white paper by
writing you a few lines.
AS you are aware, Green River has a
daily paper and has made a move
toward waking up and letting the
world hear from her. The publishers,
Holden & Co., have had considerable
trouble in getting a fair start, but as
they seem full of energy, will undoubt-
eddy make n success OF it.
There is little to write about here,
and 1 can think of nothing save a
ludicrous episode that occurred on the
train the other day, which 1 will relate,
although you may not deem it worth
printing.
An old granger from Nebraska, who,
with his daughter, was on his way to
Utah; strolled about Cheyenne while
the train stopped there. Seeing a bunch
of bananas for the first time, and learn
ing that they were good to eat, he pur-
chased a pair and gave his daughter,
who sat facing a Jewish merchant, one
of them. After eating q part of the
banana, the old fellow, wishing to de-
post the remainder in his carpet-bag,
where it could not be injured, made a
general Jail delivery, and out of that
bag came a bald-headed hair-brush-or
nearly so-a few hairs alone remaining;
a fine-tooth comb, which to clean
would have been as dangerous as to
remove Times accumulation ON the
canvas of an old master; some ex-
tremely worn shirt collars, horribly
soiled /; q red flannel undershirt !; some
stockings so rent and tattered that l
concluded his custom was to wear them
outside of his shoes and a half peck
OF fragmentary sandwiches, which APP
peared to be the result of a feast that
had exploded in some mysterious man.
ner.
The old man chased bits of ham
about, and cornered biscuits, every
once in awhile laying a particularly
fat piece of ham on the Jews trousers,
an unconscious delicate attention, a
species of mosaic charade. Having
cleared out the hold and restored the
cargo, the old man, who seemed to be
devoured with a raging thirst, made
his twentieth trip for a glass of water.
In getting out of his seat he crushed
his daughters bonnet and tumbled
ntyar tha Tauy IVhn, In yaf,nal H.
was doubtful about his ability to get
into his seat, which was next the win
dow. He took hold of the back of the
seat and chung to it, and then lifted
one leg over the child of Jerusalem,
but could not make up his mind, hay
ing no faith in himself to speak of, to
let his hand loose until he had some
where to anchor. This evolution re-
suited in his getting the Jews head
into chancery. With one arm around
the neck of that prosecuted Israelite, he
literally tumbled over into his place
with the neck under his arm. The vic
tim of this vancouver came to the sur
face in total darkness, with his hat
driven down on to his neck, while the
daughter Strengthened out her bonnet,
which again had been crushed. The
Jew metaphorically hung his harp upon
the willow. He fled to the smoking
car. The triumphant old granger fell
asleep in his shoes, to the intense grief
of the whole company.
L think a liberal subscription could
have been taken up on the spot to have
had that old man wound up again so
that he could have run to the end of
the journey. PHARRo.
Eighteen pounds of bread for one
| dollar fnnO0-faE II IT Irrrc