Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1885-12-12
THE COWBOYS ROMANCE.
Saving q Boston Gipl's Life
With His LaSso.
and Then Himself Becoming Entangled
in a Matrimonial Moose.

cisco Alta we find the following exter-
tanning story of cowboys romance:
The movements of real cowboy on
kearney street attracted attention yes
serday. He stood nearly ak feet in
his boots, and his regular features and
dropping blond moustache gave his
face an aspect of beauty fully in keep
ing with his handsome proportions.
His attire was that of the vaquero,
consisting of buckskin trousers, a
wooden shirt fastened at the throat
with careles9ly knotted silk handler
chief. a coarse chinchila sack coat,
and broad -brinh med bat of the sombre-
opattern. An Alta reporter learned
his name and his history. His name was
Edward y. Willetts, and six years ago
he was at college, when he received
peremptory orders from his father, a
wealthy Boston merchant. to enter the
theological class and fit himself for the
ministry. The command came like a
thunderbolt to the happy go-lucky fel-
low, who had always believed himself
destined to follow his father in business
when the latter should be ready to re-
tire A quarrel with his pere was the
result, and the young fellow suddenly
left
The wild life Of the cowboy caught
his fancy. Salary proved little object.
and he had little difficulty in attaching
himself to big ranch until he had
mastered his new VOCATION The open
ing of the summer found him engaged
with three or four comrades in driving
small band of steers over the Santa
Cruz mountains. Toward the end of
the drive the steep bluffs that line the
road on either hand kept the steers in
fairly good order, and only occasional
| ly did an unusually juicy bunch of
grass tempt some hungry one TO bolt
up the slope or into the canon below.
It was an occasion Of this sort that
sent Willetts careering among the
brakes and ferns on the slope above
a chase ot half mile had seen the
truant return to the road. and Willetts
was skirting the edge of the bank
some distance in front Of the drove in
search Of safe place to>descend, when
in the middle of a narroW\road he saw
a lovely girl. The drove was thun
dering down on her, and promising to
soon crush her young life out beneath
their ponderous weight. Escape for
the girl seemed Impossible. From
the road to where Willett's horse
stood WAS d wall Of rock full twenty
feet in height. and below to the bed
Of the stream was sheer descent Of
double that distance For only Sec
ond was the horseman inactive. Then,
with the speed born of long practice,
he lifted his trustv rawhide rata
from the horn Of his saddle and threw
it. Put that under your arms, miss. >
was Willett's hastv Injunction. II
was obeyed, and not a moment too
soon the girl was lifted above the
heads and horns of the oncomlng cat
tie.
When they were we'll by Willetts
slowly Stacked down until his catch
dropped softly II the earth. Five
minutes later, when he managed tC
find q pathway down and reached the
subject of his daring bit Of horseman
ship, she was lying III the dust in a
faint When she recovered he learned
tnat she, too was from Boston, and
with her iather and mother wa:
spending tie summer amid Califor-
Mas mos. favored spots. The ole
gentleman. her father, was highly de
lighted wheu nr learned Of NiIletti
identity, as he ~aon did His daugh
ter fool.shly placed 4 high value or
my little service. eApalned Nliletts
blushng, land when ! saw how sh'
had over-e>timated it. neanlv lie
manded the largest reward coul'
think of The details were >ettle'
y"a,cr,.... anu came up by the even
Inc t-a... t. tx myself for her society
She >wtr.s that look ike al angel il