Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-20
a Wild Woolly Western Expe-
rience in the Panhandle.
RED EYE AND THE HEN-HoUSE.
Red Eye Clears the corral-k Season Of Fem.
mime DespaIr-0 for Man l-Rsscasd
BY Friendly Cowboys-A Thanks
giving Dinner Ailer All.

lois OF nice people 10 Zine with us and 4
everything will be entirely tame correct
and ordinary, But III tell you aThanks-
giving experience Of mine here In the
Panhandle In 'S6 that is as wild and |
woolly and western as you could wish |
we were living on the Bar II |
ranch, Of which my husband was man |
pger. He was away from home: and |
Mrs. hincaid, with er three children I
staying with me. / was only nineteen Z
years old, and had come out fresh from |
the East the year before, when | was |
married. But was full OF adyentu-
rous spirit, didn't know enough to be |
afraid, and was glad to put up with a 1
great deal Of hardship, for the sake Of a /
little fun-indeed it generally all seemed |
fun to me.
Mrs. Kincaid-a little VT of a woman
with great black eyes, black hair. pale |
face, and big freclIles-was unlike me
in every way. Brought mp to frontier
life, never having known anything else,
she was wildly afraid of bad horse,
utterly helpless in any sort of difficulty,
and a nervous, excitable creature who,
whether she went or sojourned, always
had thrilling or absurd and improbable
adventures, out of which she barely es-
capped with her life, with one child in
each arm, and one clinging TO her
skirts, and which afterwards related TO
you till, as your nature and your man
ANAn hAiEAN Nfs eNuI lalAA AWcf WI III Alt-
mazement,you wept In uncomfortable sys
patty, or split your slides with laughter.
! always looked to meet with original
fantastic and miraculous experiences.
and an assortment of newly discovered
evils and calamities, when | went Oh an
expedition with Mrs. Kincaid-and
was never once disappointed. Fords
that had been safe and solid for months
would, when | drove into them with
Mrs. Kincaid and her three children,
turn boggy aud leave us sitting in the
middle Of the river, the latter bowling
at the top of her lungs, and the mother
praying heaven alternately TO save her
and her three children and TO comfort
| poor kincaid when they were all dead.
| ArroyOs which had been dry since the
! memory Of CPanhaudle) man, would
| pour down upon us solid wall Of water
| AZ we drove across them on midsum
mer day. The staidest team ON the
ranch, horses that had grown old in
| dignihed and responsible service, would
seem to catch the infection of her over
wrought spirit; and, without visible pro-
| vocation, run madly on across tn prairie
| like u pair Of newly rOped brOnchos,
Mrs. Kincaid shrieking that she knew it,
commenting the family to heaven,
throwing out some children and jumping
out with others in her arms, In every
direction. In all emergencies and acct
dents she was strangely fertile In sug-
| gestiOus Of the maddeSt character, and
eNpedients which always worked the ut
most possible disaster.
But she always wanted GO 20, and
was full Of life and spirit IN her own
| odd, dramatic, whimsical way.
well, some cowboys that came
through brought us a sort of roundabout
invitation from Mrs. Wall, of the Flying
NJ. Ranch, twenty-eight miles from the
Bar u to come and eat;
A REAL THANKSGIVING DINNER
with her; and notwithstanding all my
previous experiences and the fact that
there was no team on the place but a
wild one. with which ! had more than
once come to grief, such was our lone
illness and our delight Mt the prospect
Of pleasant visit ] had Red-Eye and
Fiddler harnessed up, and we started
off in great spirits.
Mrs Klncaid soon became possess
ed Of the utmost terror Of our team
She jumped every time Fiddler did
and that was enough to wear her out
for he got his name from his nervous
twitteTing way of travelling. -, nI
wonder they call him Red-Eye," she
shuddered. as old Red-Eye kicked M
viciously against the sngleuee' thel
rolled his lurid orb around upon us Il
note how we took it, But In spite o
several small panics. and good mann
minor explosions and riots, We die
actually reach the Flying NJ rancl
about half past one o clock, all a
hungry Ms wolves ,,,,,- .,,,,
OUR TROUBLES COMMhNCE.
Everything looked desolate and in
) hospitable: there was no welc0mln
face at any door or window, and W
began to feel very much chilled an
depressed. The children snuifed an
/ | hoyvled ina dismal undert0ne. ] sa
) and held the team. while Mrs. kincai
! first took them all three safely oui
then knocked and reeonnointered a.
about the place. t,,.
scared Young woman with child i
nor arms. who looked very distressed
and told us the Walls had gone, tw
days ago, somewhere. 70 see some =
their folks that We're SICK win soil'
thing, and had gotten ner anu
mother 10 come and stay at the piae
dnring their absence. She didn't as
ms 10 remnin. but we were inmlsllnl
and the horses were tired and hungry
90 with what help she cou.- give me,
got them Embarrassed ana turned ~
tbe pasture. and we went into VI
house. ,,. fo,,,,r.
d, HOGAN Ia appear-the sort OF tmnt
u lint aeon 10 belong TO Z TRIP OF IN
ilind anvwbcre. with Mrs, hincal'
for there in the house was tIie sygItn
woman's mother, Hlshtf f iooi -
old nag. who. we soon tounu' W
eitber wicked drunk or crazy, v,
sat about wretchedly awhile rug y, N
a woman NO looking at us maie ,Sae
% Presently She began to mutter' tleh :,
), rave and swear frightfully anu -
= newt s We knew she had a great put ,,ia
Knife. sharpening it on The stove PA
Z occasionaily stopping 70 leer nuL,a9
Mt us. The young w9niah
copIdn't do anything with her
"As there seemed .,,,
No PROSPECTS OF ANY DlNNEi
we presently crept out 70 the eusS ;
where NE had bit OF laneh lei'j
- onened the box-it was empty, y \
risive eaclle made US turn rouhu' "
there was the horrible Old woman ilill.,,I
- Ma been before US, We retreatSgu
:. tbs house. and said we guesSeu AZ
u mist he hurrying back nome a. !,
n mus sonie Of the boys eaten
y S mvp,s ana harness them LOT Us; ~
=, ,ras fben las the contract noNens' ~
Of NJ wss we ."I learned the full horror Of 2
q situ"tion. There was not man w "
g nv siau' niecel The boy who was stay
q s ,li,h tbem had gone in to Town a.
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