Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-11-30

learn to keep his coat on and wait for
developments of more dreadful
nature. When the screamer is Young
and fair, and has taffy-colored hair
banged in both hemispheres, it alters
the case, and | 90 to the rescue at
once, without caring noodle for par
ticulars
When the aforesaid shrek struck me
my first impression was the partner
of nv trumphs had made the awful
discovery that the cream jug was cork
/ less in spite of all my efforts in its be-
| half, but moment later | saw that |
was mistaken. The gusher from the
city had sat down on log and was
trying to compose poem to nature
when she espied small snake, and at
once became so demoralized with fear
that she instantly become as crazy as
her own poetry, and jumped into the
river for want OF knowing what else to
do. Being the only man in the party
at leisure at that moment, of course |
had to Jump in and pull her out. The
complexion of the poetess and my own
ralment were good deal the worse
for the ducklng, but it took all the
nonsense out OF her for the remainder
of the day, and had reason to feel
grateful to the serpent who had slaugh-
tered the muse, for the misgulsed wo
man had somehow become impressed
with the delusion that the greatest
pleasure could know was in listen
ing to the reading of her own sad,
sweet melodies.
BY this time the solemn-faced man
came into camp, looked at a dinner
basket and sighed. Whether this sig
nal had been previously agreed upon
or not, | don't know, but at all events
the women took the hint and began to
spread out the dinner, having some
time before commenced the prepara-
tion of coffee on small coal-oil stove
in very large boiler The stove had
seemed discouraged from the start at
the size of the job, and took its own
time to bring the water to the boiling
point. Every ybody stood around watch
ing the coffee and wondering why it
didn't boil. suggested that matters
might be hurried little by hanging
the boiler on the limb of tree and get
ting the red haired man to stand under
it, but he didn't seem to take kindly
to the proposition and it was not
adopted. When it was discovered that
the light in the stove had died out
probably an hour before and somebody
had put a chunk of ice in the boiler,
the wisdom of my view was at once
apparant. 1t was also strengthene d in
due course of investigation by the reve-
lation that the stove was like the lamp
of foolish virgin, and no one had
thought to bring cruise of oil for its
encouragement. An old-fashioned fire
was then set going by the sad-eyed
man, who had served in the army
and knew more about cooking thar
his own mother or anybody else'E
wife, and in a very little while the odol
of good cheer prevaded the camp. The
table was spread on the ground, and We
squatted about it in Oriental fashion
If you don't believe that man is still
a savage at every favorable opportu'
nifty, 90 with him to a picnic anC
watch him eat. The bottled-up in
stincts of a thousand generations o
life IN cave and forest break out il
him then, and for the time the polls
of education is observed. He don
care fly for appearances, and has n,
use for a knife and fork. III,
drives in with both hands, anC
keeps his mouth too full to tall
until everything in reach hal
disappeared, and then he begin
to forage on adjacent territory
and steals pie from the near
sighted woman at his elbow. |
my gifts were of the kind tina
find expression in marble, and
wanted to picture famine in perma
nent form, would sculp the solemn
faced man as he looked with a roas
chicken in one hand, little of every
tlnino. nlcn In Tho oil nd o. TOO