Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-11-15

borse TO ease my descent from the saddle
Each firmly grasped 9 leg, and hoisted
m an inch or so above the cantle, and
while they held me in that position my
horse was led forward by third person so
that l thought that when he was out OF the
way the figure cut by the Boggses and
myself must for one instant have some
what resembled the Colossus of Rhodes
but for the disproportion Of the head to the
legs, the lower extremities thereof being
formed BY the Messrs. Boggs. However,
wa did not keep this interesting position
long enough to get much of a criticism up
on its merits as an artistic produciion.
When my feet struck the ground telt as
if nv body had been telescoped BY my legs
M to the back Of my neck, or that had
been rammed feet foremost into
seventeen horse power sausage machine;
after making hearty supper on eggs ana
the most Internally uncomfortable chair,
remember ever to have had the honor or
fortitude to decorate, | went to bed.
Whether slept or not Is ofnoconse1uence
here. The morning came, las our great
writer's have it), and with it q renewal OF
our Journey, and my misery, for that ever
lasting saddle had to be sat upon. ANY
one who cannot conveniently put to
practical test, what | experienced that
bright October morning, for want OF the
horse saddle, and the ride of the preceding
day, may form q pretty fair idea OF my
agony, by sittiDg:on revolving circular
saw, or the portfolio of Hourishing hor
nets nest.
At all events, | weathered another
twenty-five or thirty miles, and about the
middle of the afternoon of the second day
out, my companions said we were drawing
near our destination. | looked about in
all directions, but failed to see anything
which suggested to my unsophistcsted eye
the presence of ranch, unless It might
have been land. Land there was. Intact
| think that if there bad been trees growing
wherever failed to see any, there would
have been quite forest, and consequently
good reason for my being unable
to discover our proximity 10
camp. However, looked at the s,tuatie n
in a philosophical way, thinking ii / was
mistaken in the supposition, or disap-
pointed in the hope, that what appeared al
the distance of about four miles to be a
bush might prove to be the cabin, that we
might at any moment drop into hole in
the ground and be safe. Therefore | rode
along at the side OF the wagon, expecting
at any moment to see some ones head ap-
pear above the surface Of the prairie to
greet US. On we went, and after while
the Boggses who had left the plain road
| we had been travelling to take short cut
across country began to quarrel and &C
cuse each other OF having lost the crowd.
One wanted to 60 one way and the other
another, and each blamed the other for
going wrong. At last, think more by &c.
c dent than by good navigation, va arrived
at what my friend said was
THE RANCH.
1t was not hole in the ground, but ap'
peared to be sort of exhumed hole Let up
on the surface of the ground and covered
with q grass root. The doors had all been
used for gates to sheep corrals, SO found.
The custom was to barricade the doorways
at night with the utensils used for cooking,
inasmuch, as learned, that they were
sure safeguard against wild things OF the
darkness, there being on record no single
instance Of any animal other than man
approaching TO within seven feet Of Mexi.
can cooking, or anything connected there
With.
There we're one or two shade trees near
the house which looked as though they had
been planted at about the same time, as
they had very little advantage in point OF
height over the shanty which lowered to a
well, high enough 10 permit man to
stand up without STOPPING, providing he
was careful TO plant himself directly under
the ridge POLE The principal convenience
of living in the kid of abode before which
now found myself l discovered later on
20 be the absence Of chimney and fire.
places for. When the weather was fine my
companions had an ingenious way Of max
ing the fire and cooking out doors, and as
man who cannot 60 week or two with
nothing to eat has no business on a sheep
rancho we easily pulled through the wet
season without having to build fire in
side. One Of the beauties of having fire
outside ia that you can change the wind at
will by moving the fire. For instance: if
the wind has been blowing the smoke into
the house from the East, Just move the
fire to the other side Of the house
and it won'tSbe fifteen minutes before
you will have fine Westerly breeze. The
Boggs House was in the style Of archi-
lecture which prevails throughout the
greater portion Of the Fpen@ Lone Star
State"
The timber groEing in eur neighborhood
looked as if it had been called for and
couldn't come" There ives not o tree
within radius of twenty miles which grew
straight up elk feet above the surface Of
the earth, and very few which attained the
attitude OF ten feet before branching ont in
such way way as TO make them unit
( for
BUILDING CABINS
like tho:e we are accustomed to see in
pictures viz: with the logs lying horizon.
tally upon each other. On this account
the natives are forced to bury one end of
each log in the ground, and let them stand
up side By side. ! helped to build one Of
these cabins once, and ! found ths. max
ing the doors was the incest part of the
| job. All you have to do when you come
to place where there 10 to be an inlet ard
an outlet, is 70 forget to stand up couple
OF logs, and there is your door. That is
the simplest and essiest way know Of 10
make door. You sort o make il by rot
making it. Most of the log houses in Tex.
as have the chinks between the logs filled
moss Smeared with clay, which keeps out
the weather very well.
The Bopgaes, instead Of doing this, clever
y took advantage Of what nature had
done for them in leaving knots On the
trees and left tbem thars OF course the
knotd prevented the edges of the logs
from meeting along their entire length,
those affordiDg sn excellent means of ven
tilation as we'll as loop,Loles through
which to shoot game when it approached
Also, when FIRE is NJ cessa.y indoors
there can be ne heller substitute for chin.
nsy. As the hour ws1eth space, and
what / have not written would make too