Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-11-08
SIMPSONS RANCH.
"a A. Hayes in Harper's Bazar.l

sIdon't see no sense in it nohow.7 II
was the cider Of two stalwart Scow-punch-
ers" that delivered this oracular statement.
In private life he wsI once probably Mr..
Smith or Mr. Jones, but this must have
been in days which we're prehistoric as far
as his fellows in the cattle country were
concerned To them he was, and had al
ways been, GBroncho SAM and cid Bill
Kensett, UP on the Divide, Who's age was
beyond mortal ken, and who was stalwart
man when he trapped with Ruxton and
traded with St Vrain, was on record as
saying that be ALLOWED that when thet
thar youngster come from the states hs
hedn't no other name than Broncho Sam"
That settled it
tibet thar youngster" was q relative, GER
tain,y not a positive, Characterization; Tor
Broncho Sam was a veteran, and he looked
il as he sat on a rude bench outside the
ruder log cabin. and facing tho west To an
eastern eye his surroundings were the
abominatiou Of desolation. the cabin stood
in a narrow valley, near the bed, almost
dry, OF what might be a stream. To the
gray banks enclosing il few stunted AMI
distorted cedars were precariously ciingins,
and at a distance there were some patches
o. sage-brush. As unwise, indeed, were he
wlo should look at these things to the
exclusion OF distant ones, as he who
should curiously inspect the squalid streets
Of Naples when by lifting his eyes he could
see across the beautiful bay to the grand Sill
houette of Vesuvius, with Sorrento and
Capri in the distance Here, above the
barren outlines of grim canyons, above the
sparsely wooded foothills, above the jag
ged outlying peaks, rose in its simple maj
esty the great range. Across the exquisite
blue sky overhead drifte1 clou Is As white
as the driven snow, and as light and heecy
as those under which oncs lay the Isles OF
the BEST Ii was near sunset, after the ra-
dance OF an autumn day, and the air was
deliciously clear, cool, and braciny.
Broncho Sam was not looking NJ the
mountains or the sky. but at gun which ne
was cleaning. His companion. a younger
man and evidently a disciple. had been
watching his skillful manipulation, and
listening to the words OF wi dom which fell
from his lips. for famei ranch manager
was thi, same Broncho Sam; and fortunate
were the employers, far away in the
states" whose interests were intrusted to his
faithful care.
Then came q voice through the open door
a fresh, youthful ringing voice:
aust you wait minute, Sam, and III
come out and argus the point with you. l
have not an idea what you are talking
about, hut / say there is some sense in it,
and there was ssme sense, and there Will be
some sense inlit: and what s it all about,
anyway"
Sam uttered an unint.lligible grunt. 1t
could not have been one of entire dissatis-
faction, for something like a smile showed
itself on his rugged features, and was
h. al mn md ~ Il
REYNOLDS standing in the doorway. A
handsome young fellow was he, and gen.
eral favorite in all the region for fifty miles
round. Ever since he came out from chi
cago-.vhence the doctors had sent him
after e long illness-he had added as steadily
10 his list OF friends as to the hardness OF
his muscles, the color in his cheeks, and the
figure at which he turned the scale
Blame me il he don't Jest lay over any
tenderfoot 1 ever see." said Broncho Sam,
one day, as be stood in an admiring crowd
at the bar Of the Arcade saloon In Pueblo.
@Ciimme a show, and l allow I'll MAKE him
first-class ranch hand in a year or two. y
4He amt no SLOUGH of a ranchman now,
accordin' TO my ilee," said a rash new
conner.
Sam looked at him with an undisgu.sei
contempt. clearly shared by the by -stand-
ers. Perhaps he is, an perhaps he amt.
said he. 4 allow you oughter know bet
terra !. Yes, Jim, yer may gimme another
one of the same sort.
Jack, it may easily be believed. was the
soul of the ranch. He interested himself in
the operations, and made a creditable figure
mt the .round up He could soon ride the
worst of the -bucking" horses, AMI throw a
Iariat with many an older man. He was a
bit of dandy, too, in his way, and did not
di.Gain a gilt cord with pendant taSsel1
around the crown Of an expensive Mex
acsa somhrern CAV peck-tie LOOSELY