Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

"why in the North, we can't hunt
them at night, we co it in the day time. -
''0h. that s too darned Glow for ns, -
ses Bud. why here, we scoop them in
at night, loo at a clatter.'
"You don't say - says McCorkle.
"Why, I do, - ses Bud, s'and as you
area stranger here and we would like to
entertain you, we III let you hold the bag
if you want to.D
"Hold the bag?'' ses MoCorkle.
eyes, - SEES Bud ''you know that's
the position of honor. You are our
guest. The bag has a hoop on the mouth
of 1t, n you stand in the path with q
lighted lamp back OF the bag while we
prowlGround in the woods and drive the
snipe toward yon. They re of course at
tracted by the light and walk right into
the sack.
Well, sir, we went out in three hacks,
the whole crowd of us. McCorkle was full
of it n said he would write a descrip-
ton of the affair to his home papers. 1t
vas dark and a drlZzling rain was fall
ing as we struck the woods, four miles
from town. First we had a bite of
whisky and then we planted McCorkle in
the COW path and showed him how to
hold the bag in one and and the light in
q Statue-of-Liberty attitude in the
other. e Then we scattered out into the
woods yelling and shouting, pretending
to drive the snipe, until we gradually got
out of hearing of McCorkle, when we
took the hacks and drove back to town.
1t was 3 O'Clock in the morning when
we were all sitting around the stove
in the Hecia house hat poor Mo-
Corkle cam in covered with mud,
scratched with briars, and one of the
most dilapidatedest specimens of a ten
derfoot hat you ever saw. We was
passing round a drink at the time, and
he sits doTnAI always liked him for it
ever since-he SEES, ses he 1.-THE drinks
is on me - he SEES. So we ordered up
another bottle. But Renfreu, you know
.Renfreu, the dumest guy in ali West
ern America. Hs never drinks himself,
but his face looks as If it would be IN
easy thing for bin to get a judgment
against his own countenance for de-
famatiop of character, he steps
up, and as I said before, we were
sitting around the stove, and
MGCor&le, he.was singeIng his garments
in an effort to warm the blood in his
when Renfreu, who pretended to
be fuller N q goat, reached around,
OpSDs tn6 OOO III tIO oLONOJ uhO Lhhll6
a fist full of cartridges out of his pocket,
dropped them in the fire. The way that
them fellers scattered, and the i'm
promptu manner in which McCorkle
tried to get out of that door, yelling fire
as he went, was a caution.
But Mao, he, was a good Teller after all
and got settled down into the ways
of the country. You know, after
wards he became editor of the Castroville
Quill, and after he became Initiated
in that, we considered him a regular
Texan, and ever since he has been quail
fed TO initiate other tenderfoots. First
week he took hold of the paper-it was
just after Hal Gosling, the proprietor,
was shot-old man Bungster came into
the editorial office to exhibit to the editor
a double ,yelked egg. He was accom-
panied by his daughter, Miss Ravina
Bungster, who had just graduated at the
local seminary. MeCorkle in his notice
of the egg, desiring to say as pretty
things as possible owing to the fac that
old Bungster was not only Taxpayer, -
'fOId Subscriber, - and 'FFiat justita
ruat coelum, - bu the chairman of the
county commissioners, said among other
things that the "daughter of our es-
teemed citizen was the oynosure of all
eyes during her visit to our city"
The day after the paper come out, |
Bungster, with a shotgun, appeared in
the Office of the Quill. 1t seems hat he
had read the paragraph, and while de-
with the eulogies that the editor
had disgorged regarding the eccentricitt
of his family hen, who had laid a
egg. he was mystifed by
the word ~t'cynosure, until he went
over to the schoolhouse and examined
Webster's Dictionary. He found that
the word was defined thus: 'fCyno-
sure (sin o-shure, ST %no-shure) n.
(Greek) the tail of the dog.' The sub
proceedings were exceedingly
to Bungster.
There was a noise as of deviltry by.
night. and when next morning the judges
sentenced Bungster to pay a fine of $50
for disorderly conduct in trying to in4d
an editor in the discharge of his
McCorkle ceased to be considered a
and thereafter was looked on
Is, a natura1ized citizen of Texas.
az j.. ARMoY KNOX
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