Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-09-03
WHY HE LIKES DUDES
HOW A puNY TENDERFooT ASTON
lsHED A. ROUGH WEsTERNER.

Because He Had White Hands and Wore
Clean Collars uo Was Dubbed ''MusA
and IoIasses"-Ho Showed What He
Was Made of by Saving hangers Life.
We had stopped at a railroad station
On the Pecos river, ami 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. Ono of them
finally said something about s'chawing
him mp when an old man in the gang
raised his hand and said:
THAT'S 'nough, boys; don't go any
fuSher."
Whats it to you?" demanded the
other.
"A heap, Treckon! Tt'sso much tome
that I'll do II leetle shoo.in on that fell
lows account if needs be. )"
The two men looked menacingly at
each other, and for twenty seconds l ex-
pected to see them draw and fire. Then
the younger one walked away, growing
rs be went, leaving the field to the old
man.
'.Would you have fought for the dude?"
l asked when the strain had been re-
lieved
'Sartin" he grimly answered.
"But You don't know him."
"No. and probably never shall, but
he sort o reminds me of o leetle sar-
curlstance that happened seven or eight
years ago. I had a ranch up on the
Peeos plains, and q dude came out from
New York city to visit naybur o
mine. He was jest SIGH bcanstalk rs
this chap. He had soft hands, awoman's
way of talkin, and I looked him over
and made MP my mind that q 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 u stranger, but it bout
made NE sick. l never looked ut him
without thinkin O n,ush and 'lasses."
..Well:'
"Waal, arter he'd bin out thar bout
three mouths, jim and ME went out one
day to look up some stray mustangs. The
fust thing we knew we got a volley from
alot Of Injuns who had broke loose from
the reservation. Jim was hit in the
shoulder, but fortunately carried off by
his boss, who was fier. l headed fer
y sink l knowed of and reached it with
ont scratch. Then, You see, my caper
was to stand EN- off till Jim could send
help. had Winchester and plenty of
cartridges, and durin the fust hour /
wounded one cuss and killed another.
Then got Il chunk o lead through this
right am and begun to feel bit
narvuus us 10 how it would turn out.
swiped bullet into another, and in re-
turn got this rake along the skull. 1t
wasn't ten minutes arter that befo' be-
gun to feel powerful sick and weak, and
l jest reckoned that my scalp was soin
to make an ornament Oil some red crit
ters belt
But you still stood them OFF,"
''As well as able. but the end would
hey come il about fifteen minutes more.
The last three or four shots fired I 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 / couldn't see what tc1lS
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 1 was fixed and axed him to ride
fur help. What 10 ye think the burned
cuss did?'
Rode for hor1e?"
.Not much He rode fur me! He'd
never seen q war Injun in his life, and
Jim told him thar was full dozen ar
ter me, but it made no difference. lie
comes up on dead run, yellin and
shootin, and I'll chaw my hat if he didn't
lay out two of the critters and kill a
pony afore they could git away. He
sailed right in so mighty hard that they
thought he had a big crowd behind him.
That thar leetle dude with soft hands
and puny arms lifted me onto his boss
and rode to my ranch and then heads a
crowd back and runs them reds leven
miles and kills another.
"Why, durn me! he got two ponies
out Of that scrap, and he gathered up
more wampum, bows, arrers, toma-
hawks, knives and SIGH than any six of
us had collected in five years When !
got about helped him to box and ship
'em to some club i'll New York. Pears
to me it was sumthin like the Manhattan
club. Leastwise, it had 'tarnal longish
name, and the teller was member"
.'And you came to like him."
''Say! He kin hev ell I've got in this
world any time h. axes for it. made
big mistake sizin him up. He could
beat any Of us with the pistol, and the
Teller who took hold of him for rassle
was throwed SIX high before he could
bite his terbacker. He could run like
deer, outjump kangaroo and we
couldn't find broncho who could buck
him off"
And that's why you interfered, is it,
Exactly. Show me dude and Ill
back him. These boys hain't learned
the difference between q dude and a
fule yit, but hev and don't want no
better chaps behind me in pinch than
dudes, specially New York dudes. -
New York Herald.
To Take OF Old Paint.