Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-01
A Familiar Street Scent.

"A tea,pster with 8 load of wood went
up the avenue. and blithely did he crack
his whip DER the horses stauDch and
true. they turned into. an ,alleyway
with his heavy wooden load, when the
wheels did sink unto the hubs in that
muddy alley road. ''Glt up"' the 7
teamster, shouted loud. Go, it while |
you re young" and the steady brutes
did churn the mud, each side the wagon !
tongue. She hove and sot, the |
wagon did, as once a poet sung, ''and
every time she hove aud sOt, WISER
leak she sprung SO Jared it with this
load of weed, as near Us one could
Judge; the more the horses Glove the
mud the more it wouldn't bulge. And
then began the crowd to come, first (al-
ways) the small boy. and teamsters
stopped on Jefferson the struggle to en-
joy, and Youngsters all along the walk
the women to annoy. A butcher-calt.
passing cab, wagon full OF stoves.
buggy and grocery rig, with soap and
-four and cloves. There stopped man
on business bent; doctor in his gig;
the avenue was soon filled up with ev-
, eryy kind of rig. As Oliver Wendell
burn, some man from out the crowd
would know how to roast him to a turn,
probably from a restaurant, posted on
weH-done steaks. That man is sure to-
be on hand and all directions takes.
"Why don't you whip your horses up?
Why don't you haw or gee? Come,
| wake up, ancient stick-in-the-mud, or
| leave the thing to me" The teamster
| whipped his horse: up; the teamster
geed and hawed. Butthe load OF wood
was therefor good, and there it stood.
1 saying it would (,soO -''Come into the
garden, Maud The gathering crowd
never offered TO help, but gave advice
instead, while the painting horses stood
and pulled and the driver scratched his
! head. He would look on this side then
on that, then gather up each rein; then
shout, rave, fume, swear and try it on
| again: and all the while the crowd did
! ieer and scatter round advice, but the
wagon wheels stayed where they were
as # within wise. - Come down from
OF the load of wood!' Lets rescue
'e,n all in boats!" sob, put your
shoulder to the wheel!' '.Say! Give
;'em "a feed Of oats. Then some one
took another team and hitched IL In the
rear; then both teams pulled in opposite
WAYS while the crowd did cof and jeer.
Having gazed at port and starboard
wheel, fully fifty mes or. more, the
I driver then began to do what he should
4 have done before-throw of the cord
wood stick by stick, and as ne worked
he swore. And all the while TIE heart
: less mob. fired OF the ancient joke as
z, how the wheels. could silent be, when
} all Of them had spoke, that wheels and
horses boil, were tired, they spoke with
o Vaughn tongue; that tho. muddy team
would be admired, and thus the
changes rung; that the wagon surely
would go OFF, if he thought, it wasn't
loaded and mentioned the labor Of the
: man as the work the old 'scare-crow did.
Az Inst !adowns the alley of mud two
/ tteams pulled. the wagon along. and
thus the end of the tragedy there brings
with it the end of the song. As the
teamster looked at the scattered cord
! the crowd gave; him 9 parting sally
"See, your sticks are all scattered pro,
miscuous around set 'em'up in another
alley. Detroit Free Press. - st =