Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-07-03
MARIPOSA.

You Children know them purity things
-Mariposy lilies Genewine Colorado
posies, prospectin round these yer noun
tins most Anywhsrs. settin under sour
lookin pines a-list'nin 10 the rosrin Of
the understandable as yer purity
little faces a-swollerin ole Pete's talk.
WAL. I'm a-gointer put up q yarn
about one NV them this time. You
nee'nter laff. Think Unkl' Pete savvies
nawthin only bout InJuns. scalps. gol-
diggins n snow shoots Hain't much on
posies gin'rally.
Yessiree, Thars = gun int; ef
twa'nt, wouldn't DO no story. s'pose.
Durn little coyotes. nawthin but KILN
an ksrkisses suits you. 'Tain't Injins;
though some can't see much differ twixt
them an greasers-what you calls Mex
leans. Some nv them is consider BILE
mixed; the ''per-r-oud CASTLE blood"
they blows about amt on the surface.
CASTLE soap'ud be more to the pint.
But Mariposy wuz purity as this posy.
in her Mexican wsy-eyes like midnight
in a gulch. hair black as its wavin pines,
a voice like wind in their tops.
WAL, one day wuz sightin to'rd Del
Norte to dicker bout an alfalfy deal.
Nigh to Their town see somethin loomin
up; SEE l:
"Some feller's takin cattle to range"
Then reco'nized Tom. Hans some young
Teller wuz Tom in flannel shirt and
''chaps," the wind layin his broad brim
prairie king" back and shown his face
ez he Hoped past. Nigh the Ryo Grandy
bridge my broncho most shed me ez Tom
cum thunderin back.
by gum. Thet's ridin," I SEE, ad-
mirin his slim 6gger, most one with his
beast, ez they shot past to'rd town. He
was nigh out Nv sight afore his prime
opposite cum pantin an cussin after
him; old Dias a-clawin the ar, making
it blue with un- Sunday school talk
a-diggin his knees into his winded nag's
sides, goin lickety bump. a-workin ten
miles perpendicular to airy mile ahead.
lated; then shuk my head Resky
foolin with Diaz, thinks l; it's bad blood.
They've scrapped ag'in, and Toms
a-drivin Diaz's cattle outer Their range,
an Diaz hez got onter him. He's tryin
ter run Tom down, likes not: but
c'u'dnt swar ter Tom. q c'u'dn't, eff
hanter met him goin t'other way.) I
wanter be outer this eff ole Diaz goes ter
lawin.
Trial by jury!" SEE I; ''trial by guns
my ticket. Them fam lies nd of settled
thar scrap ages sence, eff lawyers hedn't
got the cinch on 'em."
T'other side nv town Diaz wuz found
dead, bullet hole in his head, sized
bore Of leetle gun Of Toms. What
with family SCRAPS" Diaz bein seen
a-chasing after Tom an Toms comm
in on his broncho from tibet side NV
town-with nawthin & say 'ceptin he'd
druv Diaz' cattle onter range fer mis-
cheef; Diaz chased him an he outrid
him, but Diaz follered. yit he'd take his
oath he hedn't shot Diaz-all that went
ag'in' him. The story didn't assay well.
Court wuz pledged ter "extarminate the
western rough" the papers said. A
greaser he'd hung fer KILN Ute, an
the feelin wuz fer no parshality.
TUX interest in tibet trial. both fer
Toms sake-I knowed him sence he
want no bigger'n ca'tridge-and be-
cuz knowed huff t'witness eff they'd
knowed il; want much, but leave q
lawyer to build Pixies Peak outer ther
foothills.
You see Tn gittin to my story from
all p'ints t'wonct, like Injins useter cum
at our stockades; but I'll git thar es
morally sartin es they did frequint.
Things looked rocky fer Tom, thar
amt doubt of it.
Ic'u'dn't stan it. Wy, teached him
ter shoot jacks wen he warn't no higher
n sagebrush. / c'u'dn't breathe tel /
wuz ont. gallopin roun the shoulder NV
Lookout mountain, over the mesa.
Domino wut tuk me tibet road. Dom
believe in sperits, but ! cum mighty
nigh takin stock in thar lead tibet game.
cum down hill, scrost ther bridge an
onter the old play fore knowed.
Somethin guar bout tibet row NV nat
/ rooted white 'dobes, winders an doors
slantin ez gresser idees; them big, round
ovens like impossible musharooms: the
pinted church front, with bell hole atop.
an cross settin ON a heap at ther back.
Mexican squatters he'd been ordered to
vsmoose, n thar ole traps nv horses wuz
fallin lonesumlike ter pieces
'Twuz late afternoon; | thought shad-
! ders were a-fookn me when see some
thin fntter roun 'dot,e corner. With
passin idee nv sperits. likewise OF
greasers sneakin ways, | dashed MP an
covered somethin in the 'dobe.
Hands upf"
Isl 81" she sobbed-"MaTipoey.-
I felt like 6urn fool settin thar holdin
NJ, gal.
"Air We alone, Mariposy7 WIT ye
doin h'yar-'
She piled hundred questions At me
in her greaser American. vindin up:
''Ees il a right--you Air Tones frentg'
Thinkip on'y bout Tom an nawthin
= all bout ther gal. shuk it sll out.
"He7i hang szreT ser l.
Yeu'd crter seen her.
"Hs not XIII piazs' she stornped-
jumped.
Il sect done ser xsriposa. most
cryia- Il knew. Take mel tell save
Ton. All. the rop.eT she isia her party
hand on her throat. To dief-to SEE
sun sn flowers sn hear firss-to kiss
no norsi The cold. DARK gTound-she
wcrnnsr fc'ud feel her sssver a0'iD'
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