The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-10-15


woman. an his notion of gainin their
love an confidence was to chamber
on to his stage, tie his reins to the
brake, take his whip in one paw an
six shooter in t'other, bang away
with each alternate, an send his six
horses a-stampedin down IL miles
of mountain trail, a-swingin round
corners an a-peerin over precipices
scandalous, an all enough for to
make a craven image spraddle right
out an bawl with fear. I've know'd
females as aged ten years jest goin
over the divide once with Monte.
The pore, timid creatures would re-
gard him with reluctance an horror
ever after like he was some night
mare, an yet that old sot, up to the
day he disputes for place with some
card shsrp's bullet over in Tucson,
an went a-shoutin home to heaven,
swung an ratified with the notion
that all this yere / relates was the
straight, plain trail to a woman's
heart
well, the stage stops, an as soon
as the door is open out oapers as
nice little girl as ever pulled
dress on over her head. She was put
up in black an looked some pale an
tired, as she shorely has call to,
a-ridin with such loceed inebriate
40 miles as Old Monte, an the minute
she's out she goes into the stage Of
fee.
THAT young female, says Doc
Peets--an you can bet your mooca-
sins Doc Poets knowed his business
every TRIPS undoubted heap
elegant but whatever she's meditat-
in when she comes ropin at camp
like this is stack too many for me-
Whatever do you think youse'f, En-
right?'
"'I shorely has to pass a hand like
that, says Enright AT the same
time / deplores pore rank stranger
like this yere young woman strikin
camp an no one to meet an spread
blanket for her. Now yere's Nellie,
Enright continues, turnin at Faro
Nell, who's gettin her nose paint
with the rest an stands lookin on,
an it strikes me as good safe play
for Nell to go hold powwow with
her; Nell bein person of tact an
likewise female, all similar to the
other. Meanwhile we stands our
hands till Nell comes sooutin round
to US ag'in,
"'Me go talk to her?' says Nell.
We'll, I'll jest fool you up whole
lot You hear me! don't go near
her. Not as I'm none too good, con-
tinues Nell, a-shovin of her big SON.
brero back kinder Uneasy, but if
you alls had as much savoy as some
prairie dogs you'd know mighty
well this yere lady wouldn't talk to
no such cattle as me.
Just then this yere strange girl
comes to the stage station door an
looks out.
"'She's sendin up signal smoke
now, says Doc Poets, an I'm allow
in I'll pint up that away an see
whatever is up anyhow. So Doc
threw his belt and gun behind the
bar, an up he goes, jest as placid as
a sod house. We was all watchin
him, an the bow he makes when he
throws his rope for her makes us
feel proud, cause we sees the camp
wasn't goin to get the worst of it.
"'Well, people. says Cherokee
Hall, we're all some nervous an
stampeded, so s'pose we absorb some
beverage pendin Docs return?'
1--WE gets our whisky an sets
round, not thinkin much, an bime-
by in half an hour Doc comes in.
"'Gents, he says, it devolves on
this yere camp to make a mighty
delicate play. This yere maiden,
who this day hops into our midst
is broke-clean busted; nary a sim
gle centous in her warbags. A broth
er of hers, she says, with no brands
or year marks, strays on to this
range two years back. She says his
name was Good-Jim Good-an they
tells her in Tucson he's over yer6.
I recalls this yere maverick myself
as a man who gets downed over in
Red Dog last summer grabbin of a
bet in a faro game Of course I'm
plenty cunnin an don't divulge none
about this shorthorn's death, but
puts it up guileful as how he's gone
som 'ers else. allows he has plenty
of dust an is rollin POGO high when
he makes his last camp with US.
"'This yere, continues Poets,
'pleases her. She says she got a
whole outfit of relatives in Frisco
and figgers he's gone there an says
she'll go too as soon as she done
earns the dinero to take her. There's !
how the deal stands, an wants
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