Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-14

maybe you're o rustler and are stealing
this sort Of stock to set up a menagerie
with?'
'Then Hunt and got out while the girl
was laughing; and he told me he hadn't an
idea what he was going to say when he rode
up, till he saw me-"
"Say, Billy, what was it about that scat
term sort of supper you got tor the outfit
down on Buffalo one year?"
"Why, You see, we was with q herd Of
trail cattle, and we camped one evenin
there in Buffalo range. where there wasn't
a stick of timber of no kind. So I up an
set the prairie afre and just foIlered it up q
! holdin' the cofee-pot in one hand and the
| tryin'-pan in the other. When that meat
was done sot it down. Time the coffee
| billed rs IA miles from camp, an miles
from the meat
When the general shout that followed
this statement had died away, Billy added
| gravely: $50 the boys had to eat cold
| supper time I got back, about 10 o'clock. ="
Spotted Devil and the Briton-
'Yes, that was over on the T g." said
JEFF Akers. ''The old mans partners was
Englishmer. you know, and them or some
of their friends was always . comm over
from England, so't there was generally more
or less Of 'em about all the time.
1--WE used to think right hard of the old
man bein' so watchtul and pertickler about
us havin' little fun out of the blame
KNOWN, opinionated, set-up, awhawin' fel-
lers, as most of IN was, but reckon twas
business as well as manners with him, an
he inallr give it out fiat t the next En-
glishman t was busted 'er disfggered. 'er so
much as got onto pitchin hoss an skeered
an made game of, he'd fire every Teller t
had anything to do with it
But the old man way away, up to
Kiowx, when this feller come t I'm speak
in of; we were pretty desperate for some
amusement. an so We took the risk of
gettin' him buried decent, er patched up, er
shipped off before the old man got back,
and started out to hava whole lots of fun
out of him
Better put Nh. Tewksbu-y on Rocking
Chair. jeff, says Zeb Grisson to me, when
we're fxin' to start out on the range with
the feller, he's yer best pony
Yes, saws /, that's just what rs goin'
to do; and goes and ketches up horse we
called Spotted Devil, that could outbuck
anything ON the place.
He don't handsome none, L says to the
Englishman, but he's fine goer'-and you
bet he was
"We put the feller on first an held back
to watch the fun. Old Spotted Devil lit
out buckin' his very best. and we COM
menced hollerin' and laughin'-but some
how the Frglishman didn't fall of.
t.We jumped onto our horses and run up
to him, an JEFF hollers out: 'How's he
coming for you, psrdner? How you like
them gaits?'
"'Aw, first rate, says the feller, between
jumps. as calm as June mornin'-"e lopes
a little Ugh!
"We was the worst took down crowd of
chaps that ever undertook to run blazer
owe: a tenderfoot. We owned up square
and wanted to give him a good horse, but
he wouldn't have it, an just set to old
Spotted Devil the whole trip. We vas
glad enough to call of the rest of the pro-
gramme we'd fixed up on him, an put it to
him as pin. OF honor not to give it awas
to the old man, which made him laugh like
the mischief.
"'Well, / never saw an Englishman like
that BEFORE says Zeb to me. HE can
shore ride more'n anybody. an he's got
mind like grown person.
ALICE MACGowAN.