Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-29


which is bad, an the weather, which is
wOrse-it's the hard winter, l men
lions, when so many cattles dies, an
l swears so much-when my pony
gees to havin' symptoms. This pony
I've saddled-I has ten in all is that
sagsci0us that while it makes not the
slightest mention of cattle when they
are near never draws up on deer or
people, or anybody strange in the hills
but it takes to giyln OF manifestations
50 as I can square myself for whatever
game they opens on us.
AS I says. me an this yere wise
pony is just pushin' out into the Cal
iente when the pony begins to act
queer an make signs. l brings him
down all cautious where we can look
across the valley, an YOU can gam0Ie
I'm some astOnished TO see q gent walk
in along afoOt out mebby a couple
hundred wards. He sOTter limps, an
leans over on one side. like he's hurt
Nacherally. ] stops an surveys MIN
careful. It's plenty strange he's thar
at an. an stranger still he's afoot.
So I looks him over for weapons; l
wants to note what he's like an now
he's heeled. You sayeys as well as
me it dent do to go canterin' OUT 10
strangers that away in the mis-
sDechully a stranger who's afoot. lie
might want your pony for one thing,
an open a game on you permlsus WIN
his gun. as would leave you broke
an You too dead to know 1t.
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who's lost his boss. 1t makes him cruel,
crazy an frocious; s'pOse bein' atoot
that away ne feels helpless, an let Out
he goes plumb locOed. A gent afoo. IS
q he7p easier to aggravate, an mighty
sight more likely o lay for you than II
he's safe an solid in q Texas saddle
with a Spanish pony between his knees.
Which is why I remarks that taxes il
this pedestrian all careful an stacks
him up ackerate before goes a1Jer MIN
As I says. he carries on Ike he's hur~
an he's packin siX-shooter lie
makes O. sorter familiar figure, too, an
while I looks him over I'm Wonderln
where I crosses his trail before
AS has the advantage OF VIM
chester. I at last rides out into me open
an gives a wh0Opee. The party turns,
comes l:mpin toward me, an whoever
do YOU allow It Is? Which is shorely
Spanish Bill. an It's right we're he g.-s
action ON that bread on the waters ne
plays in when RECEIVERS me an. relieves
the coyotes that time in Taos; on
which occasion disinterested people like
the barkeep Of the Tub of Blood oilers
two to one I'd shorely freeze s,ln II
Spanish Bill hadn't stood in on the
plav. To make it brief, here's how Il
is. Spanish Bill tells me that, after L
leave Taos. he goes over an deals mont1
q bit at Wagon Mound. one night a
Mexican comes caperin' in, an after
Spanish Bill gives him lay out or TWO
he makes an aicybet Of $50 on the queen
what the greasers call the boss The
Mexican loses. an instead of takin' IL
easy Ike a sport should, he grabs the
money. As was his duty, Spanish BIZ
wipes him over the head with his SIN
shooter. as a reason 10 drop the money.
The Mexican tharupon searches out a
knife. an this so cOmplicates the Ousl-
ness Spanish BIZ, In an effort to sim
plify things, ups an shoots the Mexican
full Of holes.
1.-THE shoot,n' was On the squar an,
Of course. no one takes no hostile notice
of il. Spanish Bill goes on payin' out
his monte cards same as usual. Two
DAYS later. though. he gifts a p'inter the
Nexicans are fx.n' for him. SO that
night ne moves camp-mebby it's 100
miles from Wagon Mound, over on the
Vermeio. But the Greasers .hangs 10
the trail. it seems; for the day before l
tracks up on him, as he an a side pard
whose name is Hill is ridin' along. 4
band Of Mex,cans hops outen a dry ar
roya. where they're bushwhackin' for
EN-. an goes 10 shOOtuin'. As might
be expected. Spanish Bill an his pard
turns loose an shoots back agin, free
an frequent. an, near as I sees, they
shorely enjoys a high. excessive time.
They downs Spanish Bills pony an
cre3ses his side, which is what curves
him over an indooces him to limp when
I meets up with him. AS well as he
knows his pard charges plumb through,
an. as Spanish Bill goes down with his
pony. leaves him, allOwin' he's dead an
down Tor good.
d" Which, it was this pard's turn 10
know Spanish Bits dead for good be-
fore ever he lines out; but he's weak or
ratified. so he don't stop TO investigate.
Spanish BIZ puts it up when he tells
mo the story he's due to shoot up this
D9rd of hisn for abandonin' of him
rha. way. if ever he crosses up with
him. Which bein' as it should be, l
fully approves thar0f. When this we're
Spanish BIZ goes down the Mexicans
scatter likewise They was shy two
people. with another plugged deep an
GOOD. all of which I hears afterwards;
SO Won notes that Bill an his mate is
amin low an excellent It's only
half nile TO a little ranch, an Spanish
BIZ gifts over thar as soon as he can,
an. gettin' a pony an saddle, which he
easy does with his money, he breaks
back into the hills where we met He's
afoOt because that mOTnin' his pony gets
tired Of the deal an bucks him off, an
goes stampedin' back, where he gets
him.
while he's talk.n' l recalls how
Snanish Bill rounds me up that night
i'm Taos. so I don't hesitate. l takes
him over to my camp an fixes him up.
The next mornin' he turns his nose to-
wards Texas on one of my best ponies,
which Is the last [ sees or hears Of Span
;sh Bill: onless he's the Bill who's
lvnched over near Eagle Pass a year
later. of which I has no proof, but sur
misses lis some likely.
cts after Spanish Bill is gone l
brings ND again what that Gospel per-
son saws about dom benevolences, an
how af.er many days YOU reaps a big
winnin' an lives on velvet for all eter-
rf-v An don't you know this Spanish
nil pickin' me mp that night an then