Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-27
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breakfast. "Why, he battered in the
skull Of a grizzly bear that had me in
close quarters once upon time
st was when / was prospecting for a
camp on the Sweetwater, and the horse
/ was riding SHE'D suddenly and threw
me, just as the brute rose out Of thick
ct and made lunge at US.
"Dan was close bedind with pack on
his back, but he let his heels fly with
an aim that brought the bear up stand
ing, with his nose smashed in, and the
next volley laid him out as fat as a pan
cake, while Dan got of WITH little more
than q scratch.
THAT wasn't all, either. He reused
camp on the night that the Indians
made their raid-smelled them out,
aud raised bray In time for Us TO beat
them of, and so save our cattle and our
scalps.
"Talk about horse sense! That mules
got more Of it than all the beasts on the
ranch. He shall live in clover so long
ae have the say So"
Dan was not long in discovering his
advantage as faVorite on the prem
ises.
He had pen to himself, which he
shivered to pieces when the notion took
him, and more than once he smashed
! the fence and broke his way into the
corral, for no other purpose, it would
seem, than to set all the other beasts b!
the ears.
He deliberately broke his trappings
and shifted his packs, refused to work,
and rushed open-mouthed upon the man
who attempted to coerce him; but he
was model of docility with the ranch
man, and obeyed his orders like an in
telligent dog.
Dan was as susceptible to jealousy as
love, and he had bitter grudge against
Black Jerry, the ranchman's fsvorte
riding horse, which he never omitted
an opportunity to demonstrate, giving
bite or letting fly his heels when near
the black horse, unless the ranchman
was by.
1t was curious fact that Dan yelled
his resentment when in his masters
presence, but there came time when
the latter required more Of him than
mule nature could allow.
In a trip across the country one day
Black Jerry was mired in a narrow hog
hole, and after vainly attempting To re-
lease him the ranchman started home
ward on foot for help.
He had not gone far, when a little
knot of cattle left of grazing and
trotted towards him, lowing and cir
cling In ring which was augmented
by other members Of the herd, until he
found himself closed ia by Gordon OF
threatening fronts.
The long horns were angry and sus-
piciOus, as they always are at sight Of a
foot-traveler.
They paved up the sand and made
feintS Of charging, but were held at
bay by the r8nchman's long whip,
which he used without stint; but the
situation held its auxieties FOR him, I'M
IN there came q clatter Of hoofs,a thud-
thud Of well-directed Eeels,and through
the scattering ranks OF malcontents
Dan came 10 the rescue.
A moment afterwards the master was
on the mules back and riding towards
the hog hole, where Jerry still struggled.
III ever unwillingness and prOtestation
shone out OF a brute's eyes they looked
from Dams, when he understood what
was wanted.
Was this his return, he seemed to ask,
for his intelligent devotion?-but the
masters hand patted him and the mas
ter's voice said-"Come, Dan, old boy,
you must help me out, here" so Dan
submitted, and strained upon the rope
which drew his enemy inch by inch TO
solid ground.
Dan did not wait for thanks, or pet
ting after the service was rendered, but
galloped away the moment ne was re-
leased from the rope.
1t was a week after this before Dan
showed up again; then one morning he
appeared on the spot where Black Jerry
was tethered.
No one saw the beginning or the con-
flict, but there was short and decisive
battle before the cowboys could inter-
fere and separate the combatants, and
the horse was so badly injured that he
had to be shot to put him out of his
misery.
Dan laid back his ears with. a bray of
triumph and galloped away unchecked
by the men, who stood in wholesome
fear of him, but the ranchman's anger
was aroused now.
He had arrived on the scene too late
to prevent the mischief, but he backed
another horse and followed on the track
of the runaway.
There was an ominous look about his
irmly-preSsed lips and in his eyes as he
caught sight of the miScreant.
Did Dan realize that he had offended
beyond forgiveness?
1t almost seemed so.
He made straight for the river,
plunging down the steep bank, and
swimming as he struck the water.
1t was dangerous fording, so the
ranchman drew up on the brink and
waited with his hand on his revolver
for the mule to reach the opposite
shore.
He waited in vain.
Dan swan bravely until his feet
touched bottom, when he turned for one
backward, reproachful look, andedeli6-
erately lay down and drowned, without
a struggle, before the eyes Of the re-
pentant ranchman, who would have res
eued the poor brute then il he could.
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