The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
OUR TEXAS GIRL.
A Texas Ranchman Seeing the
Tiger in New York.
NUMEROUS BLONDE WOMEN.
Social Time at Observation-Disclosures and
Dudines-Cattie Talk Applied to the
Metropolis-The Stock Exchange
and Places of Interest
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.

NEW DIRK, Aprl 2i.-''Great Scout!
why, never was so glad to see any
body in my life!''
was walking along Broadway thinking
that it takes few hundred thousand peo-
pie to make utter loneliness, when these
words smote on my ear. A large hand also
smote my shoulder its mate grasped my
hand warmly, and l looked up with startled
eyes at jim Boxer, whom [ saw last six
months ago in West Texas.
Jim is DEVILS river cattle and sheep
ranchman, and he has gotten rich at the
business. That means that he has more
grit and courage than most men; that he
has laughed at hardship, privation and
loneliness, ''staid with" the sheep through
good and bad luck, in all weathers, and all
sorts OF seasons lodging and faring pretty
much as they lodged and fared-under the
open skies; and that his unfiinching pluck
and patient persistence have earned their
reward.
He is a big fellow in every sense of the
word-even in West Texas-and uncom-
monty handsome, too, and as looked up at
his six feet two of stalwart grace, and noted
how his splendid figure and his unconscious,
lordly Swagger became the elegant suit and
fetching light overcoat he wore, l felt
awfully proud of him. you're Just stun
ming, JIM / said, II wonder what made
me neglect to fall in love with you last year.
Come on, let's go on regular tear. You
take me TO Delmonico's, or I'll take you,
and you may talk whole hour, and won't
say word.'
So we went, and l never enjoyed any,
thing so much in my life.
Now I've been here weeks and weeks,
and I'm absolutely blase. But Jiml jim
had never been in 4 big city before-not
even Chicago or st. Louis, as many car
loads of beef, mutton and wool as he had
shipped there. The mixture of lively in
terest and curiosity, certain degree of
ignorance, native aplomb and audacity, and
the cool easy way of the man who is a big
fellow where he comes from, were ire
sistible
why do you reckon it is there's so many
more blonde women than men in New
York;" he began. "Why it seems to me
more than half the women meet have got
some sort of light hair, anywhere from
fuzzy stuff, almost white, TO out and out
orange. Now look at that girls over there.
For the Lords sake! Is it painted some
way?"
But 1 had agreed to keep still if it choked
me, so Jim went ahead.
1.-The funniest thing | see anywhere is
man-great two-fisted fellow as big as me,
or nearly; old chap, too, may be, leading
along blamed little two-by-nine coyote of
a dog with red necktie onto its neck. I
saw two Of ZEN up in the park this morn
ing, and I'm dam-beg your pardon, I'm
blessed-if | didn't want to knock their
heads together. l asked one of 'em-sort
of preacher lookin' fellow-if his dog would
bite; and he said, as solemn as a church, o,
no, it was quite amiable!
But say. went pin the stock exchange
a little while ago, and saw the way they
handle stock there! 1t was regular
roundup.
1T looked like all the cattle-I mean men
had been thrown in one bunch; then
every fellow seemed to have got his stock
mostly out, in little bunch sort of to one
side. Each one of these little lunches had
a little sign up with the name of the outfit
on it; and all round between these punches
the loose cattle was kind of milling and
milling, uneasy, like trail cattle act after
too hard days driving, or when there's
norther threatening; when, TO save your
neck, you can't get the grumbling fools
bedded down. They were jawing and wind
ing round and round, shaking their horns
l mean their hands-and Il looked to me
like a stampede any minute. Every once in
q while some fellow'd cut out one of these
loose steers-or men-from the milling herd
an run him into his little bunch Then
they'd rare an paw, an shake their hor-
hands, an yell like Comanches.
There was lot of little yearlings-sort
of lonely looking little critters, like they
might be mavericks-in gray. kept lodging
ttOllllS ltlC
Every once ip a while a row would
break out in one of the little punches of
some fellows brand in one of those sort Of
side draws, whole lot of the loose cattle
would run in among 'em, some of the other
brands would break away and Join 'em:
there'd be regular hullabaloo, and the
whole prairie in wild confusion
81 remember one spring up in the Concho
country the boys got awful smart and
thought they's have big roundup, the
biggest roundup anybody ever saw. So
they Just kept rounding up and rounding
'em all into one bunch-tiil
they had the whole prairie covered out
there on the Middle Corcho There was
such an everlasting herd they couldn't do
a thing with 'em. They had to turn 'em
loose and let 'em scatter out and round up
the next week in some sort of reasonable |
size, and they were lucky they didn't have
q full-grown red-eyed stampede on their
hands for their smartness.
'.And that's the way it looked to me here,
when all at once the thing broke loose. Just |
as matters had been getting sort of Gained |
down and Strengthened out little.
"a fellow about my size-yes he was, or |
nearly as big lin answer to my doubling
look -came walking out of that sort of dry |
arroyo that runs round one end of the place.
By George, he was fine looking fellow! |
And he came walking out of that arroyo, |
across the divides and into the main draw