The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-26
MERELY OKLAHOMA LIES.
m the Blackwell Times-Kecord.

from the Blackwell TimeS-RScOrd.
Its quite chilly this morning. said
Ed PeckhaU, as he backed UP to the
stove in the City drug store, this morn
ing and straddled his legs out until he re-
sembled an inverted letter ~" None of
the liars sitting around the stove con-
tradicted him; SO thus being encouraged
he continued: You fellows can talk
about cold weather, but you ought to have
been with me one time, over in the Usage
country. We We're camping out when an
awful cold wave struck US, and honestly
believe it was the coolest day ever saw
in my life. Just as the cold wave struck
us our campfire was blazing up three
feet high, but it turned SO Internally cold
in second that it actually froze that
blaze right in the air, and there we were
lowered around that blaze Of fire that
was absolutely frozen solid. Presently
some Indians came up, and the bright,
sparkling blaze that was frozen into ice
at once caught their eyes, and they began
cutting off chunks of it with their toma-
hawks and showing the chunks into their
pockets. Presently, however. the frozen
fire thawed out in their pockets. and be-
fore We could prevent it three of those In
dians burned to death. 1 tell you, gentle
men, that was a cold day.
THAT was pretty cold day, Ed,' said
T.. NJ. Reynolds, who was the first to break
the silence, as he crossed his legs and spit
on the stove, preparatory to relating his
cold weather experience, but / remember
cold day at Winfield, several years ago.
1 was at the depot waiting for the train
to go to Arkansas City. Everybody was
mufiied up, with the exception of one man,
and he evidently was muffled up inside
with lot of onions and Kansas whiskey,
Tor he had a breath that was walking all
around the room and getting acquainted
with everybody in the depot. Well, sir,
when the train came, we all rushed out of
the depot to get aboard. The fellow with
the strong breath rushed out also, but
noticed the moment he struck the cold
air his breath instantly froze into long
icicle that stuck straight out of his mouth
like sharp sword, about two feet long.
AS 1 said. we were all running for the
coaches, and just as this fellow reached
the platform, an old lady came out of the
coach and he jabbed his sword breath
clear through her body, killing her in
stantly. That, l think, was the coolest
day ever saw
Great chunks OF silence floated around
the room after this last narrative, while
the players at the checkerboard gazed at
each other in profound admiration of
such wonderful truthfulness
That reminds me of a cold day out in
western Kansas" said r. s. Howard, edg-
ing his chair nearer the stove. Il was
out hunting 1ackrabbits with my grey
hound Elsie. We jumped a jack and away
went the dog after it. The day was dread
fully cold, SO the rabbit and dog actually
flew over the ground at the rate of a mile
second. In an instant they We're out of
sight; but l noticed they were running in
circle. so 1 took my own time following
them. Finally as 1 came over a little rise
in the ground, was surprised to see the
rabbit and dog standing perfectly still,
about ten feet apart. l called to Elsie to
grab the rabbit, but she never moved. I
tried to scare the jack but he never
budged 1 then tried to urge Elsie on,
but she wouldn't move. Finally an idea
struck me, and upon making an examina-
ton l discovered that the feet of the rab-
bit and dog were actually frozen solid to
the ground, so much so that had to take
my jack-knife and dig them loose. Talk
about cold weather, gentlemen, that was
the coolest day 1 ever experienced"