The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-30

have that TO play with but as the fellers
that got licked always Unused themselves
putin bullet holes through the cards If a
man dared to hold up his hand, there wuz-
zent no good fun in card playIn'. We had
raced all the ponies so much that we knew
as we'll when we set up race which pony'd
win as we did when It wuz over. There
wuzzent a town in 800 Lliles tit to get drunk
in; so when the little event happened that
I'm a-goin' to tell you Of we nachellY
thought Proverdunce had saw what hard
lines we wuz havin' and sent M somethin'
to have fun cut Of.
1--WE wuz great pals with all the oNtht at
the rancho nearest neighb0r to us, the Bar
Y, about thirty miles north, and I'm free to
say that their bronco buster beat me. b
don't mind any pattern o. bronco; but he
wuz just hungry for wild mustangs aud
SIGH, all the time. Jim Guthrie wuZ his
name, a big two-fsted Teller, always a
CHI ettin', and gassin'. and runnin' rigs on
folks.
"Bar X ia Boston outfit and they had
a young Boston dude to come out there that
laid over anything ever saw in Southwest
Texas. He did sure wear the ornriest
clothes, to be good store clothes. that | ever
saw His pants just come TO his knees, like
a little boys and he had s rter custard pie
colored broSans, with nutmeg Crater soles
to 'em. His cap beat creation. reckon
they knowed he didn't have sense enough
to tell which WIZ front and which wuz
back, SO they'd put a little gable on
both ends SOS to hit him either way he
took it.
"Oae of his eyes wuz spilled, and he KEEP
a glass lid on it, but the lid didn't fit very
good, and he had to sorter grin 'casionally
to keep it on; and the sight of him at them
times-if you'll excuse my sayin' so-wuz
enough to make any mau cuss.
HE wuz son of the president of the Bar
X Co., and they said he'd been studyin'
somthin' too hard at College, think 'twuz
Lathetcs they named it-and they d sent him
out to git over it.
HE prung out what he called machine,
or by BhGckle-of course you've saw emt-a
big wheel with a saddle on, and little
wheel a taggin' it. He wuz 'fraid as death
Of anything like good pony-wanted 'em
to shoot the baldfaced mustang, tho best
racing pony on the Bar \, because it
jumped on Mexican 10 a few times one day,
after it throwed him; but he'd git up on
tits here by-shackle, and set up in the sad
die aud fold his arms, and make her go
wherever he wanted her to.
Some of the boys lowed he made it run
with his feet. and be did kick round purity
lively part Of the time; but other times he'd
Just put them slim legs of his up over its
ears Qhings he called handle bars, and
smoke a cigarette, and it would rack Oh just
as peaceable as ever.
when he'd sail along that way, twistin'
up his seeChers once in a while to keep his
glass lid on, he looked so much like q
prairie dog, and 80 much wusS, that 1t
seemed to sorter down 'em. They never
jeered him as he'd pass like they do otLer
folks. They'd set up at the mouth OF thsh
holes, and look at him kinder s'prised and
respectful, like they thought he wuz some
sorIer big, high-daddy prairie dog, come to
be king of the country and as he got closer
and they got better view they'd seem TO
git sorter sick and faint, and lay down on
their backs and slide down cellar without O
word; aud if any man had saw him then foI
the first time, and picked him off. there
couldn't have been found a jury of good
| men and true in the state OF Texas that
would have made it murder.
1--WE couldn't see our way to haze him
| round none while he wuz on the Bar X
| land, for fear he'd write homo and tell his
pa; but one day me and Petite and Buster
aud Jim Guthrie and a lot of the boys wuz
in off the range, and hangin' round down
at the house OF an old Mexican that sold
! Pluky, just spilin' for some fun, when
along comes Mister Dude on his nickle-
plated pony GRIMM fit to make prairie
1--WE all got up and gethered round him
and begged him to light, while we wuz
a-pullin' him Off the machine and touse 4.
| lin his store clo'eS. He took it all mighty
good natured; stood a-grinnin' and
-smokin' one of his everlastin' cigarettes,
while we boys all come round and let on to
criticise his nickel pony. One Of US lowed
it wuZ too high il the wethers; and another
said 1t didn't have flesh enough on it to
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purtended to look at Its teeth and said it
wuzzn't nothin' but filly anyhow, and no
KNOWN what it would make in time with
good handlin'. Some other Alick asked
whot brand it wuz, and we let on to find
swaller- forks, under-bits, and all kinds of
ear marks and jaw brands and hip brands
on it.
1--WE went on considerable, and thought
we wuz amazin' funny aud the little dude
man seemed to think SO too, for he grinne1
| heeious all the time. Finely he SEE, "some
| o. you boys like to ride herr Jimmie wuz
| managiu' the haze-he spoke up and SEE,
dunno, never tried anything o. that sort
| I'm fraid it's too tame for memo need to
ask If she's gentle and well broke lookin' at
| the little dude mans thin shanks, and
hollerin' out latin till you could "a heard
| him a mile.
"'She's all right SEE the little dude man
sorter quiet If you understand her DISPOSE
tion and gaits-don't try to get on that
| way as jim started to mount, I'm afraid
| you'll get fall
Jim turned on him like he'd eat him.
did You ever ride bufilerP he holtered
| The little dude man shook his head and
grinned. We'll l have sez Jim, and he
climbed on the By-shackle.
"Of course Jim couldn't be the bronco
buster he wuz without his balance bein'
somethin' to balance on and at first it
seemed as if it would pull him through.
! II wuz n little down grade, and him eud
the by.shackle started off purity friendly,
though them things that travels round the
hubs did whack his shins some; but he got
his stirrups after while, and turned his
head to wave his sombrero and give US a
good Texas yell, when he struck snag and
commenced hoopin' up and down. Then
Jim lost his head. He had his quirt in his
hand. and he began to lamm on the sine Of
the machine like 1t was a buckin' pony.
1t only caroused around worse, and lie
reached down and tried haulin' up on its
head, and usin' language l couldn't repeat
to a lady, We boys wuz Iaftln' to buTsf,
and he heard it, and it made him wild; he
WIZ locoed; and he rode the thing for all he
knew; but he rode it for bronco, and not
machine. He quirted it, he ccssed it. and
pulled up its head; and every time we
thought be wuz gone he'd ketch his balance
and stick. Finely he come to little gully,
and he tried to spur ito make 1t jump. he
said afterward-and his spur caught in the
spokes, and down he went, all twisted up in
that thing till it wuz a wonder all his arms
and legs wuzzn't broke.
Then it showed out how the little dude
man had stacked the cards Ca him, for
have never misdoubted that he had wound