The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-02-19
a COWBOY.

Tommy Tries 1t for One Day in the Coun- |
try He Doesn't Like to BE Called |
"Texas Biii" Any More.
''What would you like to be, Tom
my, when you grow up asked Mr..
Miggs,. turning to his SON.
Tommy opened one eye looked
smilingly up into his fathers face, and
replied: "a cowboy"
"You shall be cowboy" said Mr.
Miggs, rubbing his hands; 'ibut you
are not large enough and old enough
to be one yet. 1t would be too sudden
a change to lift you out of the nurses
lap on to the back of a mustang / am
going to send you out to BenloW's
dairy-fa where we spent month
last summer"
"When can I goP' asked Tommy.
eagerly.
aJust as soon as We can get you
II haven't d bowie-knife,'' pleaded
Tommy.
'Never mind that" replied Mr. |!
Miggs; .'wait until you have reached |
that stage of your education that jasti- |
fies the carrying of a knife. Besides, |
there are no dangerous characters |
about Benlow's dairy farm; but if you
want knife Just for the sake of APP
pearahces; MFR. Benlow will be happy
to lend you His sickle to carry around,
as he has no use for it when the ground
is covered with snow"
That night Tommy Miggs dreaff1ed
himself cattle king, walking haughti-
ly around In red shirt, top boots,
sombrero, long hair and q portable
nickle-plated armory mad1y shining
| under his coat tail. He dreamed OF
| flying across the prairie like the wind
on a mad, impassioned steed, and be-
ing looked upon as dangerous, and
avoided by the stranger.
On the following day be was proud
| spirited, and would have little or moth
ing to say to his competitions, and it is
only fair to say that they envied him,
| and regarded him as one born under
lucky star. A day OF two later he
started fot the dairy farm with a light
heart 1t was not a great distance
from the city, and Mr.. Benlow was on
the lookout for him, as he had received
a letter from Mr.. Miggs instructing
q hatred of COWS that he would never
after care for roast beef.
So when Tommy Miggs arrived, Mr..
Benlow was at the station with a sleigh
to meet him and drive him out to the
farm, which was several miles distant.
After they had gone a little way Tom
my said: GIVE come out here to learn
to be cowboy"
wen make cowboy of you before
long" replied Mr. Benlow. Do you
know anything about cowsp"
Nothing, replied Tommy, humbly.
swell, we'll open your eyes on
cows said Mr. Benlow.
In short time the sleigh drew up
before the Benlow mansion, an old
, fashioned farmhouse, and Tommy was
!. ushered into the parlor, dining-room
and kitchen at once, for these rooms
were in one at Mr.. Benlow's.
, That night Tommy Migg's supper
consisted of salt pork, glass of milk,
some potatoAs and piece of pie. Al
though he was not exactly satisfied
with it, he had the good sense to ap-
preciate the fact that it would hardet
) him for the rie.ors of cowboy life i
= he could only outlivc it.
! At eight O'Clock he went TO bed in !
:, large upholstered attic room, with n,
! carpet on the floor, and Jumps lik;
= cobble-stones in the mattress, and th<
: windows rattling perfect tattoo in th
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