The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-21
A COWBOY LOCHINVAR.
ROUNDING Up" A BRIDE IN THE
OLD ROMANTIC WAY.

and Chummie Outwitted the Old
Folks and Were Chased Down the
Dry Doggy nun.
From the Net0 York Herald.
RID BLANKET, UvALDE COUNTY, TEXAS,
Aug. 3.-The eastern idea of a Texas horse
is a ewe-necked, low-headed narrow-should-
cred, shallow-chested cat-hammed little beg
gar, with blood in his eye and as many dew
lis in his disposition as there are cookie
burrs in his tail.
l wish some OF the people who imagine
that droves of such little beasts are the
horses generally raised on Texas ranches
could see Jim McQueen's Cinoo. His sire
was a 4-mile horse WHOSE ancestry ran
vaguely back toward Kentucky, and he
unites with the beauty, speed, smooth coat,
good temper and large size of his stock, the
indomitsble pluck and hardihood and the
inexhaustible bottom of his native Texas
blood. Jim traded five ponies for him
when he was a raw. slim-legRed yearliug,
and called him Cinco In COMMUNICATION.
He is 6 years old now and has never
known the feeling of a collar. It is true
that if some uninstructed outsider should
insist Oh putting him into harness Cinco
would probably end by kicking the vehicle
into kindling wood and himself clean of
every scrap Of harness, but this would be
simply oontemptuous protest-a foreible
explanation Of the fact that he wasn't built
20 haul loads.
BEST IN THE COUNTY.
Cinco Is the best horse in this, a county
of horses. His qualifications and accom-
plishments are varied. He is an unap-
proachable COW horse, a finished expert in
all the horse maneuvers incident TO round
ing up, ropinR and cutting out; a perfect
mine Of endurance and good spirits on the
trail, and always wins all the long distance
and handicap races at the county fair.
He won his last handicap about a month
ago under circumstances of thrilling inter-
est to a romance loving frontier society.
Jim is the junior partner at the bachelor
Gillespie & Mcqueen sheep and cattle
ranch on Doggy Run. Their nearest neigh
Dor, five miles away, is the Austen ranch E,
at Crockett's Well. Miss Chummie Austell
when she came out to the ranch a year ago
from some East Texas school, had as easy
walk over the undisputed helleshIp OF the
whole county as Cinco would have in an
open race against field of COW ponies, and
without an ounce OF handicap. 1t was Jim,
with che good looks, boyish spirits and what
Wade Keener bitterly styled Ibis blame
winnin' ways" who first gained her maiden
of so much and such spirited, not TO say
desperate rivalry, aud It looked as though
the course of true love might be going to
run smooth once just to show the West
Texas originality.
THE CAUSE.
But now came upon the scene the cause
of discord, Misunderstanding, jealousy and
reproaches, spirited resorts and secret tears
and final angry separation. in the person of
a sheepnan, a "drifter" from somewhere up
in the Panhandle.
Spur was a most unromantio figure,
about feet in hight and feet across,
with a sort Of air OF good fellowship about
him, and giving a vague impression, some
how, Of great aud Astounding wealth.
Now drifting" sheepman is, generally
speaking. not very kindly taken to by cat
tlemen, or even by sheep ranchers. He is a
man who may have ten, fifteen or twenty
thousand sheep, and grow rich of the wool
and mutton without ever owning foot OF
land. While the cattlemen, OF any size or
account, must have ranch, and QH this
dry section) wells and windmills. and prob
ably watering tanks, all of which represent
much outlay, the drifter parcels out his
sheep into focks, under Mexican herders,
drifts all summer in the northern part Of
the state and winters down here in this
warm, sheltered country, running more or
less over other peoples ranges and making
money on smaller investments than the
ranchman.
But old man AustelI and Mrs. Austell
were undeniably impressed by the atmos-
phere OF wealth that went about with Spur,
and when he laid violent siege to Chum-
mics affections he got more or less support
from the family-even the boys, who were
Jims special friends, standing off neutral.
Jim, hurt aud angry, rode over TO see
Chummie and demanded that she give that
ohump his valoS, right straight.
TOO ABRUPT.
1t is hard for pretty girl who knows
her power to accede gracefully and
promptly to an order like that, even from
the man she loves, and the result was an
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 Chumnie, with
the indirection of the weaker sex-thinking
to scare Jim into repentance allowed hers
self to be drawn into a sort Of promise,
which Spur Immediately fastened upon,
sent to San Antonio for an Immense dia-
mond solitaire, and with the support of the
old people, hurried on the marriage, SO
that, before she realized where she stood,
the frightened and unhappy girl was actu-
And Jim!
The season was bad. there had been no
rain for long, Doggy Run was run out. the
grass was dry as finder and tie stock was
beginning TO suffer. The sheep could do
where they were-a well regulated Texas
sheep can come as near dispensing with
drinking water as Kentucky colouel-but
the cattle we're rounded up and started cut
on the trail for 1.-THE territory" Jim, who
usually stayed with the sheep. took charge
OF the cattle this year. There was a most
uncomfortable soreness in the region of his
heart which it seemed somehow to him
might be more or less worked off in the toll
of managing a herd of trail cattle, lammiug
recacitrant steers, fighting to keep the
bunch to the trail ia the face Of q norther,
or struggling To prevent or to Quell an in>
cipie1t stampede.
THE MEANS OF 1T.
They had been out on the trail nearly a
week, and were pretty we'll up toward the
state line, when Bob English rode into their
camp one evening. After supper, when
Jims tvs cowboys were out riding round
the herd, getting them bedded down for
the night, Bob remarked confidentially to
Jim:
The weddin's a-comin' off next Thurs
day. You done the very thing to jest skip
She's sorry enough--Good God, jim! I
thought you knew all about TT"
In two hours time Jim was far from his
camp and Bob's, headed for Doggy Run on
the best pony in the saddle band and Lead