San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-26

can tie me up. FUSED to 'traSel-with spIr'
itualist company and ann up TO the tieing
game"
Well, we camped that night four or five
miles north Of the ranch, but In a hollow
where we were out of sight. They didn't
light fire, and we knew there was little
chance of the boys finding US, although We
expected they would all be on the lookout.
The cowboy motioned to his guard that he
wanted to get at a bag that was on one Of
the burros and the Indian opened it for him.
It was full Of jugs packed in prairie grass
There was great excitement in camp when
the Indians found the whisky.
But it was Just as l said; four of EN-
stayed as sober as judges and kept the rest
quiet Still they could not resist the temp
tation TO take q swig or two, and all were
pretty sleepy, About 10 o'clock-and it was
mighty dark, too-ths cowboy rolled over
once or twice and got near me.
where's the tenderfootT" he whispered
Right here" I said.
"See here. Chicago, what package Is them
fecrackers inr
"The two barrels are full Of them," whis-
pered the Chicago man
"Can we get the bead OF one Of en with
ont making noises"
"What do you want to dot Set EN- of~
"You bet I'm going to make these In
dams think a regiment has jumped In on
them with repeating rifles"
swell, you can't get the bead OF the bar
rel very easy, but If you can get alongside
Of one Of them, you can cut between the
slaves with knife and break a package In
side and get the end Of the fuse out, then
touch it OFF with . match. Then you want
to get away from that barrel mighty quick"
"Do you think the boys will hear it in camp
when it goes of, supposing the Indians don't
scarer'
Hear itl Lord, they'll hear it in Chicago
4 still night like this In the inside Of that
barrel there's some cannon bombs that will
fill the sky and lots of rockets besides Some
Of them will 60 up a mile"
The cowboy rolled away gradually and 1t
seemed two hours before there were any in
dications He had cut our ropes before he
left 50 that if the barrel bounded near us We
could get out Of the way.
All at once saw a faint glow as IL a match
had been struck and one Of the Indians jumped
to his feet, but without making any outcry.
The next instant it was simply Hades broke
loose.
There was one eternal rip, and then as II
10000 men were firing of revolvers all at
once. That barrel danced all over the camp
like whirlwind of fire and then bomb went
off and burst it into thousand fragments.
1t looked as if the earth had gone to pieces.
All the camp was seething mass Of fiery
snakes. The rockets shot into the air and
skinned along the ground and seemed burst
ing away up and all round the horizon, bombs
went like cannon and showers Of fire were
falling like rain. Every animal in the place
stampeded and scattered in all directions
The Indiansl don't know what became Of
them. never saw one of them again. We
heard some awful .yells above the racket, but
they were ten miles away before the din sub
sided
Shortly after the show was over we heard
the yells of the cowboys, and soon score or
more came dashing down on us. They
thought at first we had done it all as a sur
prise to the camp, but guess we surprised
the Indians more We found the other COW
boy all tied up lying on his face Deadi
Bless you, no. He slept right through it all.
and growled when we kicked him awake. A
little thing like that don't disturb the sleep
of cowboy when he sets QUITO have a com
Portable snooze.-Luke Sharp in Detroit Free
Press