Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-20


been shut. and ~. a,
caclling and langhi oa woman stood |
horses ran back n ~ ny Minie Che
was getting rs,1y e,.f,5 pasture. TINS
Ter Il was he no-, , NY but the awful
succeed: ao ,vafch.A ~ We're bound to |
went away ana 49,. ln2ilent When she /
the corral u,ith a ,,i,.aSu NV hprses INTO |
"AIrs EincoiJ 'r r... Vi corn.
and said YEA ;ns. VAhe UP nrshy |
10 rigbt home fisness w now and
could quito rs spc,..sit,.ns WI We
Messed mn Tho ,o,,h ,..s5is nave mar
Of iightnirg W. ~ VINO ana streak
coaxed. ana n,ny ish, nnd chased, aud
louder every minste a. INV wv snoiiel
Mrs. kincaid came forward with one Of
ner inspired suggestions: Wen rope
en-, said she.
why, can you roper l enuuired in
astonishment;
No. but can sit mp here on top OF
the fence and hold this moose out. and
you can chase EN- around the corral:
ana when they run their heads through
II We have EN-.
Il told her II horse ever ran its
hehl through the noose--whlch Il never
would unless It was stone blind-it would
instantly Jerk her of tho fence aud far,
itr INTO a vague and eluivocal future;
put she said she would nay out the
rope. and was not to be dissuaded.
can see the picture yet of her sitting
perehed up on that hieh fence, white as
DEATH and trembling, but resolved her
showing up on the blank pallor Of her
little face, holding that depending moose
out at arms length, while / (feeln like
circus slOwnl chased those horses
around and around the corral, they snort
ing and going twenty feet wide every
time they came toward the rope. and She
asking fereely why | didn't drive them
right M through Il, while the children
howled. and the old woman screeched
and caclled like a hend.
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AhaiN sue SAD my lon you
/ nv uiein iltn NhNt pointing 70
i's.e Shls , nous. I lbought ihe {, l M,
q soou one, luat lue Lo,u sen, II II VII
ia i hhna,halu or tue eyil one az
5rlnE " - ! inale suuueh, sANuge
NV ~ hHuinye' VINO was JUST upiroaSh,,
liE tne niue shel, IN ne Went anu !
| slulliileu the hhppnE uoor 70 We h1 NY
puiely oPegcu our llps 70 shoqt our seil,
cS w ,iliI. Nheh sonl1llns Wy ~
on IKE S'ihhoh' Ihe uo9r uusse on II
hinges ana shocked me nat down. me
SIDES OF me house new OUT 10 every ul1
rectiou' plank hy plank WIN Tue souhl
Of RAPID musketfy' and with hnih
kick II which he almost stood on ms lns
nose ol1 he9- rye tosseu tle ullnsg ~
slNward and bounced on shofVns 10
scare the boluest, a..
AS craEied ont from unuHr siu
door. ana While ne was llsseInl41illu I,
the fragments oil me men MOUSE ! saw
every. human creature Pllns GUY Oh ~
corral (they, had an been ~ glVlng 3i
recuonsJ Ihey Just swlrIneu w nl'
fence aud shot out across ihe Iastui y
And they stood NOT upon ,hc piuer ~
their going Tor the dreadtul olq W9lnul
led the procession, clearing the renee
like q sailor aud running hke a mustang
her diabolical cackle silenced Tor once,
When things Gained down NV
Mrs. kincaid came past me CORA
(where | was stil ,ondeaVoEnE 20 "
up to and Birdie the horsel win ne
children clutched in her arms ana sal
she was going to sit out ig the open ro ,ll
mile or so up, all night II woulul
be so bad as 20 stay here, ana nave q q
our throats slit by that old Demon, ~
went OF sobbing hystencaily' an IN
children lending support TO her lament mt.
tons in different keys. Presently l sa,,