The Redwood gazette., 1895-12-19

with modest yarns and truthful episodes
Of busy life in court and field,
While composing the above in my
mind at the performance some fiend in
human form entered my reee eoattail
pocket and took all entire bar q WARN
peanuts.
The Wild West cannot hope to succeed
80 long as such things are permitted on
the grounds.
I did not stay to see the concert On
this account. Robbed Of my solace and
my joy, hooked up the mules and re-
tuyred to my home burning with indig-
nation.
Buffalo Bill had party out with him
on the Big Horn river a year ago, and
Colonel John A. Cockerill was there too.
One morning an old rancher came in and
said that she bear and two cubs had
crossed his premises in the night and
left quite neat assortment of foot
prints in the new snow.
"Boots and saddles!' was sounded at
once, and those who could not ride a
horse without having 11eir relations
strained rode in buckboards and delivery
wagons.
After few miles the spoor became
more distinct, and to the old scout the
signs of hot chase were unmistakable.
Every little while one Of the little bears
would sit down in the soft snow to make
q death mask of himself or rest and
think.
: AS Cody called attention to these ever
increasing traces Of the nearby game
the party became more silent, the colonel
said, and by and by, as every eye was
strained up the canyon in the direction
Of the tracks, Cockerill said:
''Bill, where does this little canyon
on the left lead to?''
"Oh, it takes you away off our course
It runs due south. -
"Well, I guess I'll take it," says
Cockerill, with pale smile. "Don' t
wait for me. This is just what I've been
looking for if it takes me off my course.
The farther 7 get from my course the
better I'll feel"
He met them again at dinner time
much refreshed by his canter through
the sagebrush and his communion with
nature.
There were two jockeys with the
party, says the colonel, and when the
attack was made the old mamma bear
got after them. For awhile she was
quite favorite against the field. The
jockey in the lead looked back and saw
that the lady bear was just at the gam
brels of his partners horse.
''Put the bud to him, Jim," says the
head rider. 'Pound him on the back or
the bear II take the stakes DOUBTLESS
the round.)
"Stakes be d--d!'' said the breath
less Jim. "Do you think I'm trying to
throw this race?''
Once at the fort on the border Colo
mel Cody found when he arrived with a
limiting party that at the post every
body had from one to eight dogs Every
kind of dog known to the pharmacopeia
was there. He never had seen so many
dogs together in time of peace.
So he said, "I'll tell you how we can
utilize these dogs"
'Thank you" said the commandant,
for he was plumb wore out" with these
dogs, all dependent, and so far from
home and eating into the vitals Of tho
government.
"Well, -, says Bill, 1--WE will tomor-
row organize vast wolf hunt, and we
can thus have fun and also perhaps shed
a few Of these dogs on the way"
Early the next morning an old trap
per drove into the post with large liv-
ing wolf-sort Of an advanced she wolf,
with two rows Of teeth.
"What do you ask for herr" said B.
Bill.
Eight dollars and pair of pants,
says the trapper. II have to wear my
overcoat in society now. I catched her
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