The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-01-05
.'',sj,i, KNOCKING our i .gHu.
Kesentment of the Insults of q Big Stage
Driver by n Little Dude.

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Resentment of the Insults of 8 Big Stage
Driver by Little Dude.
Colonel William Greene Sterrett, of
the Galveston Dallas News, tells this
story:
..Once, a good many years ago." he
said, st was travelling in a stage in
western Texas It was long before the
snort of the locomotive was heard on
the prairies of that region. over which
the buffalo yet roamed. At one of the
stations young Englishman and his
wife got in He was a little fellow and
dressed as a typical Englishman-what
we now call dude. The driver was a
big, raw boned six footer. He was
noted fighter. He had never been whip
ped and was regular terror. He
/ seemed to take a dislike to the little
Englishman from the start. Presently
he stopped the stage, got down, came
back and threw open the door.
i Here he said to the Englishman,
I YOU come out of that and get up on the
seat with me. There amt room for you
in there The Englishman didn't move
j Come out, tell you,' roared the driver
i The Englishman just sat still. IF you
don't come out, I'll haul you out by the
legs shouted the Jehu. Then the rest
! of us expostulated with the driver.
was too tired to fight and couldn't get at
my gun, SO / just expostulated along
with the rest. We told the driver there
was plenty of room inside; that the Eng
lishman was not crowding us, and that
if he (the driver) insulted or injured any
of his passengers he would be discharged
, by the stage company. The driver by
this time was wild. He swore he was
| in command of that stage and that he
t proposed to run it to suit himself, and il
: that blankety blank cuss didn't come
) out he'd pull him out.
t ".All right said the Englishman, al
: last. 4 will come out, and when an
= out will whip you soundly.'
HE got out slowly. We all felt sorry
s for him and sorrier for his wife. Sht
didn't seem scared or worried, though
8 and all she said was:
D Charley, don't let him scratch you
g face
/, ..WeIl, when the little Englishmal
d got out he took his coat off and handed
it back into the stage. Then he started
f toward the driver and the driver startet
It toward him. We heard a sound goot
d deal like that made by hitting a steer il
f the head with an AK. Down in a hea
d went the driver. He was up as quick a
). flash. Down he went again. Actual
If that little English dude knocked tina
II burly six foot driver clean off his feet
1t dozen times. How it was done none {
it us could tell. The big fellow woul
e rush at the little 'un with his arms g
y ing like fails. Suddenly the little fello'
is would make dash, his right arm woul
sr fly out, ans down would go the driver
After the dozenth round that drive
called out:
"'Hold on, stranger-hold onl Il
70 whipped and throw up my hands. Yo
:. kin ride anywhere on this stage you daI
y please, outside or inside or on the hose
~ :, You're the boss now; but, he adde
:. glaring savagely at the rest of us, I X
- lick anybody else on this stage
! 70 1--WE didn't expostulate. The Englisl
y man climbed back into the stage
~ quickly as he got off. His wife was So
isfied, for 'Charley's' face wasn't eyt
=. scratched. At the next station the driy
70 70 explained that if he'd only have got no
~ of the little fellow he'd have hugged hi
= to death like a bear; but he exclaime
~ ~ every time just as I was about to l;
hands on him. the ground d fly up al
hit me on the back of the head,
q "Who was the little fellow? Oh,
~ graduate of Cambridge, and the be
20 boxer of his time at the university"
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