Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-15

breathe and never seek to ovcrturn the manners and customs of our forefathers. If you ride d bike, don't come this way fol quarter of a century yet. Give us show to get used to the sight of the critter and give us time to figure on what may follow its introduction. We can hear the rumble of civilization afor off, but the man who has picked his teeth with the claws of panther used a bearsEin for a bed blanket and worked up an appetite on the back Of a bucking broncho can't step into patent leather shoes nor part his hair in the mid dle all at once
 FULL OF LEGENDs.--A young woman ill the east writes TIE KICKER that she in- tends to publish q book of American leg ends, and she wants to know if we have any out in Arizona. Great snakes, but we've got cm by the thousands and an enterprising young woman can gather up 8 carload of 'em in a week without costing her cent. We bumped right up agin legend the very fir:t night WIG struck this town and we've had cm after us cve1 since. Last summer when we were out hunting on Bill Williams mountains an old Indian chief informed us of a legend that white man who could ''write a heap" would come along and marry his daughter GaZella and stock up his wig wam with bacon, flour and whisky. He had the gal right there and insisted that it was time for the legend to begin busi- ness, and we had to move camp II miles to get rid of cur bargain.
 The cowboys over on the by ranch have q legcr:7 that 6 white man with long hair and GiStingue appearance will come along some ;say on d cayusc and courteous ly permit himself to be hauled up to limb in order to furnish them with circus per formance. After they had chased and fired upon us three or four times we got it through our head that we were the white man described in the legend, and since then we have ambled in another direction. We love a large, fat, plump legend, but we have had a sore throat on several occa. sions and don't want any more of them.
 There is q legend connected with the old Aztec ruin on the other side of the creek. It is to the effect that tho spirit of boss Aztec who joined tho majority about 200 years ago comes to the ruin in the even- ing prepared to tell any white man who happens along where q great treasure Is concealed We went over to sit among the ruins one evening last summer and smoke and ponder and wonder why such useless critter our esteemed contemporary was allowed to cucumber the earth, when old Pete Tarbell came along and took us for the Aztec spook. Pete wanted that treas
 
 came along and demanded a whack. He's determined sort of critter, and it was Eo use in our staying around there and try. ing to prove we hadn' t been dead 200 years. He got five shots at us as we dodged through tho bush but we reached home without a scratch
 An old chap came into town the other day riding q wall eyed mule and carrying o f a 1oCend to the effect that if he got drunk and whooped around and shot at the gilt roost- CT on the cupola of the town hall he'd find big silver deposit before the sum- lner was over He got drunk. and he whooped, and he also got jugged for 60 days, but maybe everything will como out all right. We can't promise tho young wo' man lobster forks, cut glass finger bowls or rcd bordered towels out this way; but, as for legends, sho can t throw club with out bringing down two or three, with the fur in prime condition.