The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-10

KISSED THE GIRLS
a Coupie of Cowboys Take Sweet Revenge
For a Sharn Sneech.

a couple OF Cowboys Take Sweet Revenge
For Sharp Speech.
Talking about the unusual, the as
tonishing, tact-discounting fiction and
all that" said Ben Ward. of Portland,
10 reporter of the Examiner, 81 have
heard OF few stranger things than some
thing l witnessed on board fast North
ern Pacific train one night in December,
1884.
Il had been to New York and was
coming west via St Paul In the st.
Paul depot. while we were waiting for
the making up of the Northern Pacific
train bound out to Puget Sound, / no
ticed two young cowboys. They were
good looking, Wore broad brimmed
white hats with leather bands, and
were otherwise got up as frontiersmen,
being very picturesque in appearance.
Nevertheless they were very sensible,
nice fellows, as l afterward found
Aboard the same cars in which and
the cowboys happened to take passage
was an elderly lady and several daugh-
tiers, two of them being young women
For couple of days we bowled across
the Dakota prairies into the Bad Lands
and finally into the Gallatin valley.
Myself and the cowboys had become
pretty well acquainted, the days and
nights were lovely and things were
about as serene and satisfactory as they
well could be.
Zone day / suggested game OF cards
TO while away the time. One of the
cowboys said he was willing, but he
had no partner, and suggested that 1
ask the two girls if they would join us.
He said he could fight the Sioux or
Crow, or rope the widest of wild steers.
but when it came to talking to women
it wasn't his best hold. hadn't talked
to them hitherto, but at his suggestion
concluded to ask them, and finally did
SO as politely as l could, the young cow
boy happening to stand near at the
time
No, SIR said the elder of the girls,
spitefully, we can't play cards and we
don't want to learn
There was no occasion for such a
remark L simply ignored it, turned
and walked away. But the cowboy
took it as a further personal a1front.
because of his rough clothing. All the
rest Of the night and the next day he |
said nothing in reference to it, but the |
iron had entered his soul. About 1G
o'clock the next evening we noticed |
both girls asleep ahead of us in the car. /
One cowboy remarked to the other /
what a joke it would be for each to |
kiss one of them as he got off the train /
a little later at Billings, the place near
est their ranch
Zone dare led to another, and finally,
oddly enough, it was agreed that they
do it 1t was just midnight when the /
train reached Billings walked |
ahead, according to a pre-arranged !
plan, and opened wide the door and re-
turned to my seat Each cowboy then
advanced with his valise and bundles
IN hiszhand, and, having previously Sc
ectedshis girl, impressed upon her lips
4 fervent kiss, shot out of the door and
was off like fash. You better believe
here was commotion.
'All the passengers were bursting
With laughter. Qae ofthe girls dream
ly awoke, realizing that she had felt a
nustache on her lips, and at length
'ang out: SYho the dickens was that
nan that kissed me-? The other girl
also realized that she had been kissed.
Nobody told them who it was, however.
They went to Spokane Falls, and for
iught ! know are living there yet
''As for the cowboys, was in Mon
ana not long ago, and took pains TO
INQUIRE about them. They are both
cry prosperous, and one is the owner
# several thousand cattle on the Rose
)ud, near Billings. His name is Lee.
Thousands of people in Montana will
NOW him when this story is mentioned.
lie will not deny the story either" -
San Francisco Evanioar