The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-07-23
x, Chinln>a's; Attempt to Ride a Buck
ing Bronco.

IN C06 Stomach anu kuOCh his nus lOOscs
or swear at him until the armament gets
loose and begins to roll together like a
scroll, but he ties his hair up in an Orr
entail wad behind and jabs a big haifpih~
into it, and smiles, and says something
like what Guinea hen would say If she
got excited and tried to report one of
Ujotuptjemes Rjoarns@h poems back
ward in his native tongue.
II ThSn he. Rtts oh.the wrong side and
slides into the saddle, making remark
as though something inside Of him had
broken loose, and then the difficulty
begins. II h. th"S s'ta'i#''''@ ;,
81. At first the bronco seems susprissd.
and temporarily ratified Intellectually,
and he Stands idly in the sunlight and
allows his mental equilibrium to wabble
back into place, while the Chinaman
makes some observations that sound
kk1 the dis6htt melody of . politiesli
club, going home at two o'clock in the
mnSoiffhfng and ar taking at one and the
came time. ~ gums: ata ~ .
By and by the bronco shoots ath6Sr<
the. sunny sky like . thing of life, and
comes. down with all his legs in clus-
ter like bunch of asparagus, and with
q great deal of force and expression.
This movement throws the China
man's'liver into the northwest corner of
the thorax and his upper left hand
ded6dessiho It'd tAi middle Of the sub
,seQpapt week. but he does not complain.
'H5 dPbhg hi5m0dth and breathes in all
the atmosphere that the rest of the uni.
verse can spare, and readjusting bis
shirt-tail so that it will have the correct
inclination toward the horizon, he gent
" tlckles the 'bronco on the statboatd
Aufgter with the c9rk 9ole Of his corpu-
, me9t throws BY! the bronco into the Widest
hystetics, and TOR twenty minutes the
spectators don't see anything very dis.
tinctly. The autumn sunlight seems to
be mixed up with blonde bronco, and the
softened haze Of October seems fraught
with pale blue shirt-tail and disturbed
-Chinaman, moving in an irregular orbit,
and occasionally throwing off meteoric
hrls|es ko5 ApPegd eld bis pre- pre- historic il. ri 6
viutsgvof Confucius, marked b. G. 1860.
=, When the sky clears up q little the
Chinaman's hair has come down land
hangs in wild profusion about his olive
| features. The hem of his shirt.6ap -
seen to be very much frayed, like ii,
American flag that has snapped in the
| breeze for thirteen weeks. He finds also
! that he has telescoped fis spinal column
and janihiei two ribs through the right
superior duplex, and he has two or three
p&1ebsae lelsnxak lit through his sys'
tenn that he don't know what to do with.
The casual observer eau sec that the
Chinaman is a robust ruin, while the
bronco is still in q good state of preser'
walton. '''' - u..- ,
But the closing scene is still to come.
The bronco summons all his latent en-
ergy, and humping his back up into the
exhilarating atmosphere, he shoots for
ward with great earnestness and the
most reckless abandon, and when he
once more bisects the earth's orbit and
jahs his feet into the trembling earth, a
shapeless mass of brocaded silk and
coarse black hair. and taper nails, and
Celestial shirt tail, and 0olong profanity
md dfsdrga1ized sChiaese remains and
shattered, Oriental shirt destroyer, comes
| down apparently from the New Jeru'
salem, and the Coroner goes out on the
street to get six good men and a chemist,
| and they analyze the collection-
Il They report that the deceased came
20 his death by reason Of conclusion,
supposed to have been induced by his
iail from the outer battlements Of the
sweet BY and by.-RN Nye.