The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1892-09-19
WHY HE LIKES DUDE,
HOW A PUNY TENDERFOoT ASTON
lShED A ROUGH WEsTERNER.

Clean Collars He Was Dubbed "Mush
and Molasses''-He Showed What He
Was Made OF by Saving Rangers Life.
We had stopped at railroad station
On the Pecos river, and many of the
passengers were walking up and down
the long platform. Among them was
dudish young man who excited con-
siderable ridicule from the dozen rough
fellows hanging about. One of them
finally said something about "chawing
him up" when an old man in the gang
raised his hand and said:
'That's 'nough, boys; don't go any
further"
"What's it to you? demanded the
other.
"a heap, l reckon! It's so much to me
that III do leetle shootin on that fell
lows account if needs be-"
The two men looked menacingly at
each other, and for twenty seconds ex-
| pected to see them draw and fire. Then
the younger one walked away, growing
as he went, leaving the field to the old
man.
"Would you have fought for the dude?'
asked when the strain had been re-
keved.
'Sartinr' he grimly answered.
"But you don't know him"
"No, and probably never shall, but
he sort o reminds me of a leetle sar-
cumstance that happened seven or eight
years ago. l had ranch up on the
Pecos plains, and dude came out from
New York city to visit a naybur O
mine. He was jest sich beanstalk as
this chap. He had soft hands, woman's
way Of talkin, and looked him over
and made up my mind that Texas
baby three years old could give him
pointers. Why, durn it, if he didn't
wear white shirts and collars and play
the pianner! / tried to be civil to him,
cause he was stranger, but it bout
made me sick. 1 never looked at him
without thinkin o lnush and 1asses"
"Well!"
"Waal, arter he'd bin out thar bout
three months, Jim and me went out one
day to look up some stray mustangs. The
fust thing we knew we got volley from
a lot CT Injuns who had broke loose from
the reservation. Jim was hit in the
shoulder, but fortunately carried off by
his boss, who was a fier. I headed for
sink knowed of and reached it with
out u scratch. Then, you see, my caper
was to stand 'em off till Jim could send
help. had Winchester and plenty of
cartridges, and durin the fust hour I
wounded one cuss and killed another.
Then got chunk O. lead through this
right arm and begun to feel q bit
narvous as to how it would turn out. I
swiped bullet into another, and in re-
tCrn got this rake along the skull. It
wasn't ten minutes arter that befo' be-
gun to feel powerful sick and weak, and
/ Jest recko; a that my scalp was goin
to make an ornament on some red crit
ter's belt"
"But you still stood them Off"
''As well as able, but the end would
hev come in about fifteen minutes more.
The last three or four shots fired was
so blind 1 couldn't see rod. The reds
was shoutin to each other and maxim
ready to close IN when I heard white
man yellin. I couldn't see what took
place, but l know how it was jest the
: same. That mush and 'lasses dude was
out on hoss huntin jackass rabbits
and Jim run across him and told him
: how | was fixed and axed him to ride
3 fur help. What do We think the durned
: cuss did?'
. "Rode for homer"
= "Not muchl He rode fur me! He't
J never seen a war Injun in his life, an6
!, Jim told him thar was full dozen ar
l ter me, but it made no difference. HI
D comes up on dead run, yellin ant
4 shootin, and I'll chaw my hat if he didn'
q lay out two of the critters and kill /;
n pony afore they could git away. H,
!. sailed right in so mighty hard that they
= thought he had big crowd behind him
That thar leetle dude with soft hand
y and puny arms lifted me onto his hos
q and rode TO my ranch and then heads
q crowd back and runs them reds lever
e miles and kills another.
# "Why, durn me! he got two ponie
out Of that scrap, and he gathered u
more wampum, bows, arrers, toma
hawks, knives and sich than any six O
us had collected in fye years. When
got about I helped him to box and shi
" 'em to some club in New York. Pear
to me it was sumthin like the Manhatta
1, club. Leastwise, it had a 'tarnal longis
n name, and the feller was a member"
n ''And you came to like him?''
" 'Say! He kin hev all I've got in thi
W world any time ne axes for it. l mad
n o big mistake sizin him up. He coul
beat any of us with the pistol, and tn
feller who took hold Of him for rassl
!? was throwed sky high before he coul
n bite his terbacker. He could run like
;. deer, outjump a kangaroo and W
IL couldn't find a broncho who could buc
1t him of"
o. ..And that's why you interfered, is it:
n Exactly. Show me dude and L
Ia back him. These boys hain't learne
! the difference between dude and
=, fule yit, but 1 hev and don't want L
~ better chaps behind NE in pinch tha
Oh dudes, specially New York dudes"
TX New York Herald.