Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-06
ROUND.UPS.
n,,,,crs Tell the Secrets OF the Cat
Vlu :, - Ur.iness of a Long Time Ago.
.,,. o, Cattle and Range In the West.
s'0o by ,n Hogs Increasing General
stock News and Notes.

dsvs ago couple of old time
A" oue now ranohing in Mexico
c'" 'a. o,ber living on his farm in Tar
iDu :. ann,v. we're in Fourth street Of
I'o' . mir. of old Zines on the range and
ice 'o r.,ss One of the two, and the
n'n m whom this sketch has to deal,
0a' w." ,stype of beauty known generally
Vs. ..-svbsrry blonde, and withal as
$ .o,,sd a man as ever lived. For
F00 NJ convenience the Mexican
ihs ssso iii be designated as Frank and
rsnonslS .h hs blonde as Tom. OF course
lhs sna I'm know who the blonde is. The
% ops ~ No. zane on for some time, when
Tom Tonne Isu ION recoIlect the time, Frank,
Nv -su upon you in Gonzales county
iha' al, 10" a bull of mine in your herd
s ~, YOU vou was driving'"
"" 81 believe do. "
III last owned up and paid me Sc for
oa' n non't you recollect?"
J" 90 believe do"
,,5s go we're good times then and the
Ibo had pocket self heating brand
nsD ,. gr was daisy, wan t he, Frank?'
W. 81 believe be was. -
- vou bet he was. The spryest
80, owned the cattle IN them days.
T IT.i,,t that way now, though. Why, 1
M n think knew it all, and no man
u'sa mari enough to tell me anything.
, va sold out about three years after
I,.rr5 that bull of mine in your herd,
I'D have been fixed now, but as II Is
W., Under sucking the hind teat, while
,ou are all right. "
W. GWby didn t you sell out?''
nWby I thought I could just 90 on
sr5iug calves all the time like was
,bsn and nobody would ever catch on.
Rnt ! didn Il, as you well know. The
. m, kinder changed. and the MAYER
,a,iro business fell off, and a lot of the
maysrlckers swung of. This kinder
soored me off and let up. 1t would
have been q good thing for me if the
sheriff Of some county had rounded me
nm about that time for cattle stealing and
had me sent to the penitentiary for about
ten years.
81 believe it would"
"You bet it would. I would have
been rich uow''
"Tbats v hat you WOULD said Frank
With q CLEAN of intelligence in his eye.
mYour people would have took charge of
your cattle and looked after them while
YOU were doing time, and when you got
an, ron uonld have had all the in
crease ~
"That's it; but as it was l commenced
bgyiug cattle when they began to go
down and before 1 got through owed
everybody and didn I have half enough
to pay out. tell you what, the laws of
Texas ought to be enforced. 1 am in
for til mean wish they had of been
about that time.
"Well," said Frank, 'I don t know
whether do OF not. There ain t no use
in being too particular about a thing.
Come LETT go and take something. 3"
"Nack, l have quit. 1 made
blamed fool of myself once, and that
once run over period of years, but of late
years when stare the inevitable future in
The face and realize that there is here
after in which the deeds done here will
have TO be accounted for-when know
that the good will be set up against the
bad and balance sheet struck. I am
going to get my work in on the good to-
wards the last Sam Jones' sermon on
Record! Record II Record!li' fixed me
and drink, cuss nor steal cattle no
nora ~