Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-10-01
i TEXAS LOCHINYAR.

ell. cat manned little beggar, with
blood in lis eye and as many devils in
his disposition as there are cookie burrs
in his tail.
iwish Some Of the people who imagine
that droves of such little beasts are the
horses generally raised on Texas ranches
could see Jim E1cQuecn's Cinco. His
sire was IL four mile horse whose Gnces-
Try ran vaguely back toward Kentucky,
and he uniteS with the beauty, speed,
smooth coat, good temper and larger
size OF this stock the inilo@litable pluck
and haulihood and the ineXheustibie
bottom of his native Texas blood.
Jim traded five ponies for him when
he WAS Il raw, slim legged yearling, and
called him Cinco in commemoration.
He is years old now and has never
Known the feeling of u collar. 1t is true
that il some uninstr1cted outsider should
iusist on putting him into harness Cinco
would probably end by kicking the We
hicle into l;iilI!ing wood and himself
clean of every scrap of harness, but
this would be simply contemptuous
protest. forciblo explanation of the
fact that he wasn't built to haul loads.
Circo is the best horse in this. coun-
try of good horses. His qualifications
ard accomplishments are varied. He is
an inapproachahlo COW horse; a finished
expert IN all the horse maneuvers Incl
dent TO rounding up, roping and cutting
ont; n perfect mine OF endurance and
good spirits Gu the trail, and always
wins all the long distance and handicap
races at the county fair. He won his
last handicap about Il month ago nn'ler
circumstances of thrilling interest to u
romance loving frontier society.
jim is the junior partner at the
bachelor Gillespie 6 Mcqueen sheep
and cattle ranch on Doggy run. Their
nearest neighbor, five miles above, is
the .Austell ranch, at Crockett's well.
Hiss Caumlnie Austell, when she came
cat to the ranch a year ago from some
east Texas school, had as easy u walk
over Of the uudisputed belleship CT the
whole county lis Cinco woUid have had
III an open race against Il field CT COW
ponies and without an ounce Of handi-
cap. 1t was jim, with his good looks,
boyish spirits, AID what Wade Eeencr
bitterly styled '.h:s Lame winnin ways"
who first gained her maiden preference
and held il so long in the face of so
lnnch and such spirited, not to Say des-
reratc. rivalry that it looked as though
the course OF true love might be going
To run smooth once, just to show its
west Texas originality.
But now came upon the scene the
cause of discord, misunderstanding
jealousy and reproaches, spirited retorts
and secret tears and finally angry sepa-
ration in tho person Of q sheepman's
''Lrifter," from somewhere up in the
Panhandle. Spur was q most unro-
mantle figure, about five CT six feet in
height and three across, with sort of
air of good fellowship about him, and
giving vague impression somehow of
great and Astounding wealth.
Now drifting" sheepman is, gen.
orally speaking, not very kindly taken
to by cattlemen or even BY sheep ranch
ers. He is man who may have 10000.
$4,000 or 1000 sheep, and grow rich off
the wool and mutton without ever own
ing foot of land. But old man Austell
and Mrs. Austell were undeniably i'm
pressed by the atmosphere Of wealth
that went about with Spar, and when
he laid violent siege to Chummie's affec-
tions lie got more or less support from
the family-even the Toys, who were
J!ms special friends, standing off neu-
trail. jim, hurt and angry, rode over
to see Chumrlie and demanded that
she give that chump his vamos right
straight.
It's hard for a pretty girl who knows
her power to accede gracefully and
promptly to an order like that, even
from the l::;;n she loves, and the result
was al angry rupture.
For some weeks they never met, and
all this time Spur was staying at the
Austell ranch or camping close to it,
pushing his suit with Chummie, and
Chmnmie, with tho indiscretion Of the
weaker sex, thinking to scare jim into
repentance, allowed herself to be drawn
into " sort of promise, which Spur i'm
mediatelv fastened upon, sent to San
Antonio for an immense diamond soil
taire, and with tho support of the old
people hurried on the marriage, so that
before she realized where she stood the
frightened and unhappy girl was actu-
ally putting ON her wedding dress.
And Jim?
Tie season WIGS bad, there had been
TO rain for long, Doggy run was rul
cut, the grass was dry as finder and the
stock was beginning to suffer. The
sheep could Go where they were-a we'll
regulated Texas sheep can come as near
dispensing with drinking water as a
Kentucky colonel-but the cattle were
rounded up and started out on the trail
for ''tlle territory" jim, who usually
;taid with the sheep, took charge of the
cattle this year. There was Il most tn
comfortable soreness in the region of
his heart, which it seemed somewhat to
him might Gc moro or less worked off i'll
Inc toll of managing IL herd Of trail cat
lie, lalln;ilg recalcitrant steers, fighting
to keep the bunch to the trail in the face
Il Il northsr, or struggling to prevent or
10 queil az incipient stampede.
THY had been out Oh the trail nearly
& week. and were pretty we'll up toward
tie state line, when Bob English rode
into their camp one evening. After sup
Per, when Jin's two cowboys were out
riding around the herd, getting them
beaded down for the night, Bob re-
marked conidentially to jim: The we'd
t:in's a-comin off next Thursday. You
done the very thing to jest skip. Shes
sorry enough Good God, Jim!
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