Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-03-27

''STEANGER, HEN YE LOST ANYTHING?'
cation was laundering at our doors. Had
he waited to put his ear to the ground he
would have discovered his mistake. Such
of the crowd as weren't over at Lone Jack
that day were watching the big game o!
poker in the Empire saloon. The only pho
neer who sighted that Denver man was
Jim Hagen. and he has explained to lie
that he had only two cartridges in his re
volver and wanted both of them to shoot
old 81 Davis with in case he got ugly drunk
and howled for gore. Sunday forenoon a
cowboy named Bill Wharton came ambline
into town, found our boarding place and
when face to face with us softly inquired:
Stranger, hev ye lost anything as VI
knows of in the last day or two>'
Our agricultural editor ought to have
shown up last night, but didn't"
Ar them critters of any particular valu,
to anybody"
From ST to 50 per week around here"
Il didn't know that, but it wouldn't hev
made any great difference. Ie'll find yel
cayuse hitched in trent of the post
and mebbe these two guns belong to ye:
Ye'll hev TO git another agricultural cEitter.
I'm sorry to put We out, but under the
circumstances it couldn't be helped. Ye
knowed he was goin over to Grassy Valley,
did ye:"
YES"
Gin him any fatherly advice afore he
started?"
Yes"
1--WE reckoned as how ye did, ben ye
know the ropes purity well, and we reckon
ed as how he was conceited and wouldn't
take it. Purity good agricultural editor,
was he:"
He was n very able man."
But a leetle too previous, take it. Or
ter laid that collar and necktie away fun
the year 2025"
How many of you We're engaged in the
affair.""
'Oh. ten or dozen, l reckon"
And take it that he is deceased:"
WAL, reckon We kin purity safely re-
fer to him as the late lamented. though
tharS Jest chance that he got away in the
scrub Ye might hold his place open fur
a week or so before takin on another crit
ter. Better hev sort of written contract
with the next one about goin slow and
givin the kentry a chance to git used to
things. It's got to our crowd that ye ar
prancin around in what they calls medi-
Gated fannels.
Yes, wear them"
WAL, I'm subscriber to yer KICK Err
and votes the same ticket ye does, and /
hope nuthin may happen to ye. Hain't
comm over to Grassy Valley, ar YEP"
Not this spring"
That's k'rect. No use in medcated fan
nels tryin to git through our crowd We'd
jest medicate the hull outfit, We know.
Did that ere late lamented critter of yers
ever invent any cowboy songs or write any
Jesse James novels?"
Not that | know Of"
''Dhat'S Xyov bovS but
we wasn't sartin. The gineral opinyun was
that he was a critter who had never done
anything in pertickler fur anybody and
was then prancin around the kentry to git
up an instruction. AS | remarked, yell
find yer cayuse over by the postoffice. If it
turns out that he's wind broken don't blame
any of us, as we caught up to him as soon as
we could and gin him a good rub down aft
erward. Jest speak to the next agricultural
critter ye take on, will yer, and tell him
that too much previousness in this locality
most always results in a Teller takin short
cut out of the kentryf"
We do not exactly grieve for Mr.. Bone
well, our departed agricultural editor, as
he was pig headed and refused to be adj
vised and as agricultural editors are too
cheap to grieve over in this portion of the
glorious west. Still we wish it had not
been. We had got so that we depended on
him to shoot any one entering THE KICKER
Office by the alley door to get the drop on
US, and if we were driven to bay on the
front steps with both guns fouled he never
hesitated to come out with a club and do
his best to create a diversion in our favor.
We are in want of q man to. fill his chair.
Agricultural intelligence is all right up to
a certain line, but beyond that it must be
mingled with horse sense and keen per
ception of the eternal fitness of things.
The successful applicant must furnish his
own guns and ammunition, and il he persists
in wearing so cent blue suspenders after we
have had talk with him we shall keep
back s. per week of his salary to cover
funeral expenses.