The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-06
How II Chinalnan Rides IL Bronco.

Mow Il Chinaman Rides il Bronco.
When Chinamnn does most anything
in his own peculiar Oriental style, it is
pretty apt to attract attention.; but when
he gets Oh n bucking bronco with the
cheerful assurance of n man who under
stands his business, and has been con-
versant with the ways Of the bronco for
over two thousand years, the surging
humanity ceases to surge, and stands
with bated breath and watches the OK
hibition with unfiagging interest. A
Chinaman docs not grab the bit of the
bronco and yanl it around until the no.
bic steed can see thirteen new and pecu-
liar kinds Of fireworks, or kick him into
the stomach and knock his ribs loose or
swear at him till the armament gets
loose and begins to roll together like n
scroll, but he does his hair up in an
Oriental wad behind and jnbs big hair
pin into it and smiles, and says some
thing like what Guinea hen would say
if she got excited and tried to report one
of Bjoernsjerne Bjocrnson's poems back
ward in his native tongue. Then he gets
Oh the wrong side and slides into the
saddle, making n remar). rs though some
thing inside of him had broken loose,
and the grand difficulty begins.
At first tho bronco seems surprised
and temporarily ratified intellectually,
and he stands idly in the glad sunlight
and allows his mental equilibrium to
wobble back into the place while the
Chinaman makes some observations that
sound like the distant melody of a sing
ing club going home ut 2 o'clock A. NJ,
and all talking Mt one and the same time.
By-and-by the bronco shoots athwart
the sunny sky like thing of life, and
comes down with all his legs III cluster
like bunch of asparagus, and with n
great deal of force and expression. This
movement throws the Chinaman's liver
into the northwest corner Of tho thorax
and his upper left hand deuodcssimo
into the middle Of the subsequent week,
but he does not complain. Flo opens
his mouth and breathes in all tho atmos-
phere that the rest of the universe can
spare, and readjusting his shirt tail SO
that it will have the correct inclination
toward the horizon, he gently tickles the
bronco Oh the starboard quarter with
the cork sole of his corpulent shoe. This
mirth- h-provoking movement throws the
bronco into the widest Mysteries md
for twenty minutes the spectators don't
see anything very distinctly. The Aut-
umn sunli. ut seems to be mixed up
with blonde bronco, and the softoncd
haze Of October seems fraught with pale
blue shirt tail and disturbed Chinaman,
moving in M irregular orbit, and occa-
sionally throwing off meteoric articles Of
wearing apparel and prehistoric chunks
of ingncous profanity of the vintage of
Confucius, marked B. G.. 1860.
When the sky clears up little the
Chinaman's hair has come down and
hangs in wild profusion about his olive
features. The hem of his shirt flap is
seen to be very much frayed, like nh
American flag that has snapped in the
| breeze for thirteen weeks. He finds also
that hc las tc]cscopcd his spinal column
and jammcd two ribs through tho right
superior duplex and he has two or three
vertebro floating through his system
that he don't know what to do with. The
casual observer can see that the China
man is robust ruin, while the bronco
is still i'll good state of preservation.
But the closing scene is still to come.
The bronco summons all his latent
energy, and humping his back up into
tho exhiliarting atmosphere, ho shoots
forward with great earnestncss, and the
most reckless abandon, and when he
once more bisects the carth's orbit and
jabs his feet into the trembling earth, q
shapclcss mass of brocndcd silk and
coarse black hair, md taper nails, and
Celestial shirt tail, and Oolong profani-
ty and disorganizcd Chinese remains and
shattered Oriental shirt destroyer, comes
down apparently from the New Jcrusa-
lem, and the Coroner goes out in the
street to get six good mon and chem.
ist, and they analyze the collection.
| They report that deceased came to his
death by reason of concussion supposed
to have been induced by his fall from
the outer battlements of the sweet bye.
and.bye.