Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-12-16
LOST IN A PASTURE.
A Strangers Experience in a Texas Town

A Strangers Experience in Texas Town.
A BelcherviIle, Texas, letter to the
St. Louis Globe Democrat says:
"Say, mister your horses are in the
little Belcher pasture. Any time you
get ready for them rll send man on
a horse to drive them up for you"
MY jovial landlord addressed these
words to me the day after | had ar
rived at the little Texas city from
which this letter is dated. He was
an accommodating kind Of fellow,
and /, wishing to be equally accom-
modating, answered:
ooh, you needn't bother yourself
about that My horses are both gem
tie, and if they're only in a little
pasture l can catch them without
any trouble"
Mr.. Jackson looked alittle dubious,
but said "All right" and supposed
it was. Later developments showed,
however, that the statement was in
correct. The next day l had oc-
casion to use my ponies and having
previously learned where the 'little
Belcher pasture" was l started to
hunt them up
When | entered the pasture
noticed that it seemed to be a little
longer than | had imagined. A few
hundred yards from the entrance
there was little belt of timber,
through which felt confident a
creek flowed. / supposed that the
fence on the far side Of the pasture
was probably Just beyond this creek.
I walked down to the timber, jumped
the creek at its narrowest place, ana
made my way through the timber on
the farther bank.
After a walk Of some thirty MN
utes found myself once more at the
edge of the open prairie, but with no
fence in sight in anydirectlon. IheIe
were hundreds Of cattle and scores OK
horses to be seen, but none that
T looked like mine. | made some IN
efTectual search for mine, but hao
about the same chance Of hndlng
them I would have in finding needle
in n havstack. Then, in disgust, Il
G tried to find my way back to the
hotel. This was easier tried than
I. accom- 1lished. | had gotten 'befud-
S died" i'm my wanderings, and had no
a very accurate idea as to the direction
! to be taken. Finally, however, after
e over an hours wandering through the
l. bushes and over the creek banks j
reached the hotel, covered with mud
and ssticktights," tired and much
/ out Of humor
IS "Say, Jackson" l called. sarcastic
ally. chow many counties does that
/ little Belcher pasture take IN, any
t. way? Does it stop at the Rio Grandei
or does it extend into Mexico?7
/, Mr.. Jackson looked rather ag
crieved, but grinned as he answered
II said your bosses was in pas
ture didn't say they were in nt
Is darned boss lot, did /? Didn't l OF
fer To have them driv up for you
That pastures five miles long but
d. amt over half a mile broad in lots o
s places. and there amt much NOR
he than 1900 acres in IL altogether
old man Belcher used TO own 20, 90
v acres here. and we called that th
N Belcher pasture. He's sold all bu
liz this little patch, though, and that
ny WIN we call this the little belche
IT, pasture. Seer" ,
We / saw. and at the same time | Do
III gan 10 realize that | had gotten lnt
the land Of big pastures Next ga
/ az / passed along the streets OF Va
70 town 1 heard one man say Col his con
.arEnuH
no "Boys you sec that fellow yundei
rec Darned lfho didn't geo lost TIA on
ad Uttle nelrhol pasture