The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-12-13
THE. COWBOYS BRIDE.
How She Proved She WAS no Wax
Figger."

The evening train on the Union Pa
cific drew out from one of the little
desert stations of Wyoming few days
ago, leaving behind a group of merry
youngsters who had come to see Oft a
newly-wed young man and woman.
The departure of the train was signaled
by three rousing cheers by the for
saken young men and maidens, and in
a certain manner strongly emphasized
by the startling reports of several pis-
tol shots.
The bridal party in the car were in
teresting witnesses of this grand demon
stration in their behalf, and, lovingly
locked in each others arms, leaned
from the same window, smiled, and
waved their respective headgear in
adieu. A bend in the road soon re-
moved the married pair and their
friends from view. The former slowly
lowered the window and sought their
seats Immediately they became the
cynosure of almost every eye in the
car, and they justly merited the atten-
ton.
She was beautiful and buxom, and
! was dressed in her best which was
rather of the shabby-genteel order.
Her face had pristine beauty, which
cultivation and association with people
of refinement would have made particu-
larly attractive. As it was, there was
the ruddy glow of health, the evidence
of a robust constitution, and withal the
power to charm the best young people
of the district in which it beamed. In
her eye there was the merry and mis-
chievous twinkle of the inborn coquette
that delighted in compelling devotion,
and took not a little delight in making
the .'feller she liked best feel that he
was not the only lad around she might
have for the desiring. In her hat was
| concentrated the evidence of the hight
to which millinery had attained in the
mountain town.
| The young man was dressed in a
| brand-new cowboy outfit, so stiff in all
! its parts that he moved like paralytic
and smelled like a leather store. He
was not so brawny as cowboys some
times are; indeed, he seemed like tyro
in the business. His face was devoid
of that black-walnut complexion pecu-
| liar to members of his calling, and its
| expression was such that it might but
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| Mark Twain would have termed gos-
pei ducks smile.
The twain had hardly taken their
seats when the young lady burst into
tears. The feeling of homesickness
| had already come upon her. She sobbed
aloud, and attracted even more atten-
ton thereby-the undivided attention
of the crowded car The newly-made
| husband was trained in business in
such cases made and provided. The
next instant his arm encircled her
waist, and the fair form was gently
moved as a consequence in a reclining
position, until the dropping head rested
upon her protector bosom. Then
were poured into the listening ears of
| the weeping damsel the whispers of
consolation which the young husband
was able to conjure up from the re-
sources of his vocabulary Some of
| these whispers found their way into
! the damsels mouth, because it was
noticed that several times the lips of
! the twain met in closest contact.
By degrees the disconsolate maiden
returned to her former self, and there
ensued such scene of embraces, and
kisses, and whispers, and hugs as is
witnessed only on q well-appointed bri-
dal tour. Indeed, everlasting love,
confidence, and fealty must have been
proposed and assented to thousand
times.
Of course, it was a picnic for the
other passengers, of whom many had
been there before. Some of them had
not, and to them, especially of the
rough border class, it was something
the enjoyment of which was almost
supernaL Several of the more demon
strative of the latter reached for their
neighboring companions, and began q
honeymoon of their own, initiating to
the letter the traditional performance
which was being given by the heroine
and hero. 1t would be difficult to de-
scribe the scene in the car when this
emulation became almost general. The
smacks, the "ohs!" the ''ahs!" the
laughs, the outlaws became almost
legion.
Meanwhile the loving pair seemed
almost unmindful of the merry scene
of which they were the occasion. At
| length, however, the pair separated
for moment, and the fair one looked
around and smiled on the passengers.
Immediately dozen finty hearts,
smitten with the appearance of the
lady, acknowledged the potency of her
sway and began to make themselves
irresistible in appearance by the sun
dry tying of scarfs, Strengthening of
shirt-fronts, banging of hats and smooth
ing of heads, and returned the smiles
| With the lavish interest of millionaires.
| At this juncture one of the smitten
border gentlemen, deeming himself be-
yond compare, reached for the brawny
sleeping companion of the male gender,
who was making himself audible with
sundry excellent developed snores, and
| lovingly pressed him to his bosom; so
| lovingly, indeed, that the aroused
sleeper opened his eyes with an ejacu-
lation which almost sent the embracer
| to his feet. The embracer sought to
appease the enraged sleeper, and after
n time succeeded.
He thep directed the others atteE-
ton to the spooney pair in the other
part OF the car. As the half-sleepy
eyes took in the antics, the mouth
! opened, and a smile gradually stole
| over the sun-burned face. The smile
was followed by laugh, the laugh by
a roar, and the last in turn by ''Well,
I'll be chawed right up if that don't
| tumble the animalr' in tone of stem
| tor volume.
This was new element in the scene
and increased the excitement to the
uttermost.
I'm going to take hand in and
you can take the plunder if | don't"
The next instant the speaker had
climbed over his companions knee to
the aisle. As he did so he showed
frame of herculean proportions.
he strobe like giant, and a paiI of
| star spurs rendered ominouslY musical