The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1888-02-04
IN The FAR WEST.
had Man From Penn aylyInia RuLs
Across iI'd Wan in WyominE.

Across H,d Nan ia wyoming.
One day we stopped by u little creek
near Fort Fct,ermuu. Wyo., for dinner.
Another covered wagon, headed west.
was already campcd there. and Il boy
was taking care of the horses. while u
girl about fourteen years old was busy
frying some bacon over II fire near tho
wagon. We managed to secure an
acquaintance with the girl, and asked
her if she and her brother were travel
ing alone.
80, no. she replied, pap and mann
are in the wagon. Pap'S laid up an
mans doctorin' him. ~
"llurt i'm an acCidcntP'
"Yes, all bungcd up. Other fcllcr
was II sight quicker N pap lowed he
was. Lor', but he did make some
lively mouonSV'
"What was the troublc?'
80, jcs' fight Say, want to know
if the men keep gittin wuss the furder
west you git?'
"Well, it's hard to say. DO they
seem top
That's about It, Whom we lived
back N Pennsylvania pap lowed he
could lick any man in Millln County,
AN he used to DO ii, too, 'lcction-dayS,
an Fourth of Julys, an camp mcctin's.
Three months ago we pulled out for
the West, an says pap: Il shall leave u
line o men on crutchcs from Lewiston,
Pa, TO Bolcman. Mont. | shall
tie together the AllegancrS and
the Rockies by inc o Grip
plcsl | shall unite the East
an the West with spawned an busted
mp fighters! | shall shut up the op-
ties and fattcn out the smcllcrs of
these Western galoots an learn 'cm
that the bad men don't all roost west
o the Mississippi Pap said he was
pizen on Western blowhards. ar' they
wanted to sing low when he had his
boots ON.
"Well. was he rs successful as he ex-
pccted To bo?"
"Not by good bit lie pounded n
man all TO pieces near Pittsburgh. an
licked two more crosSin' Ohio, They
seemed To get tougher in Indiana. but
pap whaled n livcry-stable mau at De-
catur an chased Tippecanoc County
farmer n mile an half. When we
struck into lllinoys they 'pcarcd to Git
still wuss, an pap only kinder tired
out three or -four of 'em an didn't lick
'cm reg lar. Then we crossed the
Mississippi at Burlington an man
that was loadiu lumber down by the
river kinder tired pap out Thon ut
Ottumwa man that run n S'loon pert
ty near licked pap reg'lar, an at Oscc-
ola he'd "A got pounded if he hadn't
a run. Still he didn't git hurt much
till we struck Ncwbraska."
"rhcy got still worse. did ihcyP"
THAT amt no name for it. At FREE
mont one of the county commissioners
come down where we was campcd an
put il all ovcrpapin about ten minutes.
an at Long Pine pap shook his dst at
the conductor of a passenger-train that
was goin past an the conductor
stopped his train an come over an
whaled pap till he squealod. At VAL
entine the principal of the schools
chased him out q the school-yard
when we tried to camp there. an at
Chadron he picked ON the mayor
little while they was tiyin' to trade
hoSses. au' the mayor upn socked it
to him thout pulliu' his coat or sayin'
word. Still pap wasn't laid up till
we struck Wyoming. Back here at
Lusk pap got talkin' with little feller
bout religion. Pap jumped mp a
couple o times an told the little fcller
TO look out cause he was a comm.
An then pap went for him with his
head down an gosh. you orter seen
the motions that little fellcr madcl