Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-25
JULIUS,
The story ore Roman-Nosed Maverick
that Ten Thousand Dollars would
Not Ruy.


Not nay,
The early days of his sojourn on the range
were days of quiet, reserved behavior on /
his part. In fact, so lacking was he in the
gregarious tendencies of his kind that for a
long time he was considered a myth by the
more conservative citizens Of the locality,
and this sceptical feeling on their part was
apparently confirmed by the animals won
dcrfu ubiquily One starry night he was
seen by one of the boys, who was coming
home from town late, and, about the same
hour, Gale Smelling saw him and climbed
cottonwood sapling for safety's sake at a
point fifteen miles distant. But as both
the gentlemen referred TO acknowledged
that they had been giving some little atten-
tiOn to driving dull care away via the bot
tle-rOute, and as other persons who had
met or seen the wonderful steer were inva-
riably individuals of bihulOus tendencies or
a facility i'm the fiction line, whose descrip-
tions of the maverick were undisguisable
misiits of each other, those who had not,
with their own eyes beheld the monstros-
ity, still smiled the wise, aggravating smile
of disbelief.
Gale Smelling averrcd that the creature
was at least as tall as giraffe, with horns
six feet long, and hOofs which left foot
prints on lIt ShllO Oh illllt rs Dig as a Sotil-
brero "It' was black as the interior of
coal mine at midnight, with great eyes
which fla he'd lightning. | think Gale
would have said that they also flashed
thunder. but he feared this statement
would leak. Deponent further set forth
that "it'' charged upon him with more or
less impetuosty, stampeding his horse and
causing him to use much celebrity in gain
ing access to the upper story of slender
swaying tree, where the creature held him
prisoner, occasionally butting the tree with
much gusto, thereby causing Gales store
teeth to fall out and making his head ache
According TO Gale this resulted in much
insomnia on his part, continuing until Au-
rOra and a large bunch of cattle appeared,
whereat cit withdrew, after various san
culinary threats, uttered in a low bass voice.
The story of the other chap, who claimed
to have seen the creature on the same even
ing, fifteen miles away, did not dovetail
with Mr.. Snelling's. According to this
veraciOus gentleman, who was chef at Jim
Harden's ranch, the maverick was quite
a well-behaved animal, although quite I'M
cOuth and freakish in appearance. 1t was
very large, with head as big as a barrel,
and quite as long, said the cook, and had
big, branching horns and fiery eyes. But
it was not, he said black, as Smelling
claimed. On the contrary it was red, with
white trimmings.
The only point on which any two stories
agreed was the description of the MAYER
iCk's nose Nearly all united i'm affirming
this to be the most remarkable portion of
the beasts makeup, for, instead of being
as a well-regulated steers nose should be,
it was so ROmanesque that every one who
had seen it was quite ready to swear that
the lower portion was very nearly, if not
quite, at right angles with the upper.
But nobody seemed to see him by day
light and circumstances were against those
who did see, or claimed to have seen, him
at all.
One afternoon, however, he figured i'm an
incident which held considerable interest
for the party of the second part, who was
no less person than the veteran Hank
Barr. Hank, next day, related in mufled
tones, through several thicknesses of band
ages, the following:
GLOW do | feel? Sa-ay, son, was we
ever kicked by a reel promp' muel, r toyed
with by a buzz-saw, n hit by pile-driver?
'Mph. wy them's parlor games long
side o that crOOked-faced maverick lie
amt no steer-hes a elyfant, that what
Nav, didn't git no good look at tn brute
He's one o. these here upgardsanattem fell
lers, an don't vase no idle moments sizin
folks up.
81 was ridin' intuh camp, bout snorin
i'm tn saddle. an had jes' come out o that
long coule b'tween them low hills ontuh
tn crick bottom, wen, all of a suddent
Plug-ugly snorts an rares up, an some
, thin seq MN M m-mf -OO.oOn You bet
70 wakes up, an, an there, bout two rods
a ahead, was tn Ole Harry hisself / reached
y my UtIn NM frin In, ,r,I,
ne Am still, but tn burned gun was twisted
m my belt an the fool boss was cranky;
,o,, no tn fust thing ! knowcd, streak o.
~. min with a full head O steam, hit me
', H., " vt forty-siX places, an when | come
> a., 30 lynn, all skun up, with my dainty
oi5iIIro1, onpled feet an laigs a-soakn' in tn
Oll''''' ." ''rhcn pulls tn gun an lets 60 a
IL Is rumos, an you fellers comes out an
Ut OF town hp. Sa-ay. I'm goin' t ride in
enl weekly mo- kerry a Gatlin gun, after this
raPSe capital H."
'e IN town la Hank was well enough to at
'ouhd preparatoss again there was change
The reading of the maverick. A few days
'estcott at the tepysode,' Fleming and !
as worthy of nus row among a bunch of
liss Wescott was e. cattle which he always
j OF the characters, way from the others, I'M
nging was up to her sion. They had been
'OhdIltA aunt the 4 ramon W. Nab'l 'hdl
hich has been so enthusi or other, and one OF
J both New York and Mexican cowboy had
wen in the opera house Tu, hills with them a
this month, by very Gy only mile or 50
overs of comedy will have M disturbance and
" a good laugh. each the spot,
f. j. Howard will read SoI WILLOWS ana
omeo and Juliet at the Uhear tne creek
lurch Tuesday evening, next. 'hteI WIN th'
on tc this local talent will rendelniel our eyes
the songs of Shakspere. This eu mass,
ldon, moi Win ~, "'' 'PP'' fiat, and
c. II. BTadsh of Bellows Falls has III, I'm,
pointed section foreman on the Flu, ava,
lrg road between Keene and Marlboro. tboyl
ace of Lester X. Stiles, resigned AnGaoad
lies has been in the employ Of the rail2hicI
ad since 1869. He has this week entered ',n,,
ION his duties as superintendent of high ~
Iys in keene. ~,
The committee of associated charities
II meet with Mrs. +. r. Campbell Satur- A.,
y afternoon at 3 o'clock. The treasury 4, Az
the organization is almost empty, and 81
e officers ask if there are not some who ten