St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-03

messed on board fast Northern Pacifi
train one night in December, 1854.
81 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.
L noticed two young cowboys. They
were good looking, wore brOad-brinImed
white hats with leather bands and were
otherwise got up as frontiersmen. being
very picturesque in appearance. Never
theleSS they were very sensible, nice
fellows, as l afterwards found.
Aboard the same cars in which and
the cowboys happened to take passage
was an elderly lady and several daugh-
ters, two of them being young women.
For couple of days we bowled across
the Dakota prairleS. into the Bad Lands
and finally into the Gallatin valley. N.Y.
self and the cowboys had become well
acquainted, the days and nights were
lovely, and things were about as serene
and satisfactory as they we'll could be.
''One day | suggested game Of card
to while away the time. One of tn
cowboys said he was willing, but he had
no partner and suggested that l ask the
two girls if they would join us. He said
he could fight the Sioux or Crows. 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
l concluded to ask them, and finally did
SO, as politely as l could, the young
cowboy happening to stand near at the
time. ,ar @
'.'Ne, 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 re-
mark. simply ignored it, turned and
walked away. But the cowboy took it
as rather personal affrOnt, because of
his rough clothing. All the rest of the
might and the next day he said nothing
in reference to it, but the iron had en-
tered his soul. About 10 o'clock the
next evening we noticed both girls
asleep ahead of us in the car. One cow
boy remarked to the other what joke
it would be for each to kiss one of them
as he got Off the train little later at
Billings, the place nearest their ranch.
''One dare led to another, and finally,
oddly enough, it was agreed they would
do it. 1t was Just mideight when the
train reached Billings. l walked ahead
according to prearranged plan and
opened wide the door and returned to
my seat. Each cowboy then advanced
with his valise and bundles in his hand,
and having previously selected his girl,
impressed upon her lips fervent kiss,
shot out of the door and was off like
flash. You better believe there was
cOmmotIOn.
''All the passengers were bursting
with laughter. One of the girls dream
lily awoke realizing that she had felt
mustache on her lips, and at length
sang out, Who the dickens was that
man that kissed me?' The uther girl
also realized that she had been kissed.
Nobody told them who it was, how
ever. They went to Spokane Falls.
and for aught l know are living there
yet.
LAS for the cowboys, was in Mon
tana not long ago and took pains to in
squire about them. They are both very
prosperous, and one is the owner of
several thousand cattle on the Rosebud,
near Billings. His name is Lee. Thou
sands Of people in Montana will know
him when this story is mentioned, He
will not deny the story eitherO