Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-09

the boss last night IN Deming. >, ne add
ed, turning 70 Nrs Williams. ssYou' re
his wife, ain you9 Ithought So. soon
as / saw you. He was kiddztlg nc about
| coming OFT here to lie "a coseb by, and /
| told him all right, if heva.ll e rum f.y
a blaze, I'd 20 him on thai. was Is
| have rode out with him in his buggy,
but was up pretty late last night with
| the boys doing the town. and when /
got up this morning he was gone. l
| wasn't going to have him think I'll
backed out Of the bargain, so I says to
the conductor, I got a job ont az Apache
-cowboy-gimme a ride to Whitewa-
! ter. And he says, All right, jump on
| You re welcome to a ride on my train
whenever You want it. Sol walked
over from Whitewater, and I'm ready to
| go 70 work tonight if the boss saws so.
He won't fiIid NE no tenderfaot, yon
hear me.
The naive brayado Of the child's
speech was irresistible Ii won my
heart as completely a. / had won his
and straightway emptied my candy box
into his hands ooh p ne breathed.
looking at the heap Of dainties with in
fantile delight And then he fell upon
them with avidity and did not speak
another word until the last one had dis
appeared down his throat
So that was how the Kid came TO live
at Apache Teju. He said his name was
Guy Silvestre Raymond. But whether
a mother lips had really bestowed that
name upon him, or he had appropriated
it to himself ont Of some blood and thun-
der romance, whose hero he had decided
10 initiate, name and all, is one Of the
things that nobody but the Kid will
ever know. But il didn't matter much
anyway, for he had always been called
Kid, and that name followed him to
the ranch. much TO his disgust For he
had decided, So he told me one day, that
the ladies of the household would call
him Guy, and that among lie men his
name should be ''Broncho Bob .
He was waif of the railroad. All
his life had been spent along its line,
backing boots, selling nuts, candy, pa
pers, ON the trains or around the depots
IF the frontier cities and towns And he
had taken care Of himself ever since he
could remember. He lad reached DEM
ing few days before in worse but
less picturesque state Of dilapidation
than that III which he presented himself
at Apache Teju. After deciding that he
would leave the railroad and become
cowboy he had scraped together, in
heaven knows what devious ways and
by what lucky chances, the apparel of
mk.s.. fa.x .f..t. Ia.
life.
The next morning there was trouble
in the corral Kid had been directed Co
mount au old and gentle pony whose
meek and humble appearance did not at
all agree with his ideas of the sort of
Steed Broncho Bob should bestride. There
was in the corral a black horse called
Dynamite. a mettlesome young thing
whose one speciality was bucking And
of this it never failed TO give a continu-
Gus performance from the time rider
mounted its back until he was dislodged
Kid was determined Go ride Dynamite
Texas Bill and Red Jack were trying to
persuade him ont of his notion By tell
ing him how dangerous the horse was
and how il once landed Mr. Williams.
the best rider on the whole ranch, on
top Of the house.
Sappese be did, clustered the Kid
lie won land me on topof tho house,
nor ca tern ~ ground, neither l tell
yaU, I aiat0ffaid tofark any horse that
eveg tas1ll c,m ride anything rllst
weags lag a0n hear me shoat ANY
thiH Jee wears bar