Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-09
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Dave unbDsouod
like the funnin
but they're tnnie enol
qucnce, and Pm blnmr
the people Rit worked
way they do, Now.
that 'ud make your h'ar
none Of your mile heats
traok for n big puss OF mos
ten-milc dash across track 49,
try, and the stakes human /.
used to own "A big yelar hoss, II rcs ar
buckekin he was, with hp-
bones that sou could hang
your hat on and II neck thnt curved
iho wrong wnya hoss with long,
ganglin' legn, md n tail like Il scrub
brllhh. lie WIZ n good 'un, and don {
YOU fail to remember IL. When he got
down TO hiH best gait he looked IN IL he
WINS all legs, except II hump right In
tile middle tint showed where hls
back was, Ilis ambition wns to lot
nothing get away that he once started
after, and the iyellpst Toxas steer that
over cracked his heels IN spOrtlve de-
ilnnce al u cuwhoy stood no show when
that lllimnl took up the chnAc
actually believe that II he'd took It
into his hehd fo~oycrtake "a streak ~
llghtnln' he'd "a "h9ue II or busted
every hanihtrlng IN his organizations
WAS hisspecd ever tested In the way
you mention, Ia u fnco for lliepp
F." IL was, for u lhct, stranger more'n
once. | uaned him Lust Chance be-
cnuse lac pulled mo out % 80 many
tight places when thar didn't seem to
lac any other chance for my life. Thar
wA one time IA pnrticklpr that IN
never lorgit If | live to he IA old IA the
Rocky Mountains. II wns when
WINS Mhi'shal AZ Monte bar. The ihieV-
In ApacleS war on II raid aud one
day ~ runner come into tho town with
the news That u band of prospcctors
had been sol upon and butoherpd In
cold blood over NJ Qliolesand GnIeh,
ten niles from thnr. rhe nearest mill,
tnry post WIS nearly twenty miles
away, and some or our citizens begun
Ia git miGht,ty alarmed for fear the
cl,ssea reds 'ud come down on Monte
l'nr mud sweep II out of existence
The town didn't hive much
OF IA population in thom daya,
mud We didn't feel M IL we could
hold the fort aglu n vcy big squad -
hostilra. The up,hot OF the thing was
that volunteered to carry mossnge
To tile conmnndant ~ the post; So |
iilounlo'i Lust Chance Hat nt daylight
one mornin' and set out.
"Wal | hndn't covered half the dis.
lance when ! run afou OF hand of
ieiSkins, Tney fired on me before /
discovered rm but It wnA long range.
aud thar bullets fell short. Then
seed en- come pourin out OF n ravinv,
twenty or more, and 5umpin' on thar
horses 10 give chase, but | tell YOU
stranger, tho old huckkkin wasn't slow
TO kctoh on 81 the racket, lie Jumped
stl1slekScf iui i,w yards, then
stretched out his head and laid baok
his cars, aud The way he paved dust
w'w nrnuton 10 cats, Tho Apauhcs
war well iuonntcd, aud / recku nizr,i
the len,vr ~ teller ihdy called t,hief
hilly the dnlrot,e,l,st thief nnd cut.
throat thai ever pesleu.d n oo,nnn,n.
NY II happened hint hr wus n
hitiof enemy OF mine, and Ind syyor,
TIME ana pgin tina, he'd wenr my
Hkeip NJ nia helI rountr or later. lie
rode u hig black MUSTANG Tint Ind the
reputation OF hen liver md n bn-
gan Ia be "a debatahlu ,iu,s,tion In nv
mihd whether ho wuhldn't sort,r diva
my buckAlin u warm phnhlnl M 10
Tell The Truth, mister, AZ was a hot rncs.
hha " ihs,rd lol IN hnug before there
was amy indication ui how Al wnnlI
etd Tie lWnnr hossta was apernntly
fresh, aud IhVy rid 'eu Tor ali they wns
with, but Rreat Jvncho. how thnt
buekskln q mine I'D gct down Ia
hlnncss' ne bumped hissalf til his
bones rhttl'd llNra dicp box, and had
70 hold ON With both hands 10 Keen
from hotn Oli, Lickety-aplit, hellitv.
scool neck or nuthin', lhc strealSed IL
across the plain, over awols and
through hollors, ol,lstrippInl III,
Wind itself, and The reds kent
purity closa la the rear. III he'd
slAckeied his speed In a lot II he'd
stumbled aud fell; Ii any accident had
happened, II would have been ali day
with Dave liammrrAtone. I,orI
stranger, u your people here could Noe
such y rarv as that WAS they,d hay,,
some excuse for gettini excited .
and how did IL endep
'Wal, You sec that still live. Last
nance Kept M Ills lick for nh hour
: more, whom all ofa sudden | soed
hal We was approachln' u wide chasm
That sirc,chod right across our path.
~ was one OF them big cracks Ia IN.
ground Tint aon,o lollls say israusvd IL
earthquake, u WIS miles In length
nhd too Wide tVbe jumped, Thought.
The lnjuns set up yell; they s,,w
mat was trip, and 80 did |.