Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-07-31
SHOOTS BUFFALO.
A Sample Texas Yarn-sons of
Ananias on Their Mettle.
Texas siftings.l

Texas Siftings.I
| may remark incidentally, that
there is something about the atmos-
pherc of livery stable that stimu-
lates the imagination. There
is more unostentatious lying done
by old men who sit around in hide
bottom chairs, in the shade in front
Texas livery stables, chewing tobacco
and whitteling sticks, than in all the
Court-houses in the country.
On this occasion there were several
old frosty-faced veterans of pre-ada-
mic Texas, swapping yarns about
killing Mexican Indians, and hunting
butlalOs and mustangs. They SEEM
ed to lie without the slightest effort.
Mendacity seemed to roll out of their
mouths by the mile. l also noticed
when any of them told particularly
tough lie, the others seemed panied,
and Immediately one Of them would
get OF a much tougher yarn.
One of them wasa white bearded
old son Of Ananias by the name of
Dempsey. lie was stage driver by
profession. There was another old
fellow with brandy hair and long
red nose named Smoot. These two
seemed to be rivals in the business of
manufacturing frontier improbable
ties.
ever been out on the headwaters
of the Nueces ?" asked Smoot.
"a thousand times, l reckon. l
killed and skelped a Krankaway In
jun right at the watcrhole in 1887.
lie was trihe over eight feet. His
skelp was as big as door mat" said
Dempsey, carelessly.
"If he was Karankaway, he must
have only been a boy. All the Kar-
ankaway bucks | ever shot averaged
about nine feet. Well, asI was go
ing to say, | had a narrow escape
from buffalo out thar III 1881. |
reckon thar was million of EN- out
thar"
"There was more than that when l
was out thar" said Dempsey, picking
up stick TO white.
"As | was saying, just for the fun
of it | thought l would shoot off a
builalo's tail Just two inches from his
body. lie was a covortin' around,
and switchin' his tail about, so |
didn't make much of a shot. | shot
it of two inches and half from his
body
Dempsey yawned like a cavern and
replied
you must have been mighty
awkard with a shootin' iron TO miss
an easy shot like that. When | was
ranger with Jack Hayes, l used to
follow up butlaler and shoot the
COW ticks off Of him without techin'
him.
81 had fever and anger when shot
that buflaler bulls tail off," cXclaim-
ed Dempsey, "aud l had just taken
about half a pound of quinine, and
my hands war little shaky. AS
soon as shot of that bulls tail, he
turned and came at me in Il hurry so
made tor the nearest tree
Il have had the same thing happen
to me a billion times, | reckon. The
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anxious to head off the impeding lie,
which threatened to be whopper.
"Fve had 'em do that to me, too
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