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

hinT' And I star1sa for tho corral.
Madge gras c ,ay s1rs with both
hands
Dynamite vgca' hart him! know
lie wontl'
's'has &c gu know abgu. ~"
81 know he won't bec4es don It
you tell mammal was On hiIl myself
enc day. and he never huelsed a bitr'
Youi How did yea daros"
Il wanted TO see if 1 could, and there
Tsas nobody in the corral, AID climbed
on his back, and he was just lov siy!"
And Just then, with Kid astri,le him.
Dynamite pranced and cnrveted down
the road, With a beaming face Kid
waved his hat at us and galIoped off,
Dynamite making not even the sign Of
a desire to buck After that the boy could
not be persuaded to ride any Ter horse
And as long as Kid bestrode him, or
Madge, with Kid 3 connivance and help,
surTeptilously mounted him, Dyna-
mites behavior was perfect. But he
worked woe upon any grown man who
made the attempt
The black horse s life was not an easy
one under Kids lnastership. The boy
never rode at i less pace than a gallon,
and even in that dry, hot air Dynamite
was always reeking with sweat when
they came home.
just how the Kid put in his time out
on the plains was a mystery The COW
boys with whom and for whose assist
ance he was sent out good naturally
swore that he was not worth a whoop
in hell If they needed him, he was
nowhere in sight, and if they particular
~ did not want him he was sure to come
charging over the plain, straight upon
the cattle they had punched, and scatter
the frightened creatures 10 the four
winds. But mostly, they said, he man
aged to get lost, which was only their
good natured way Of putting the fact
that he slipped away from them and
pursued his own amusements mt a suf-
ficient distance not to be disturbed by
their need Of him
What he did with himself all day
long Mrs. Williams and l one day dis
covered when we We're driving to White
water. Ont on the plain we saw the Kid
yelling like wild man, with Dynamite
ut his highest speed, chasing IL jack rab-
bit That evening / heard him giving
Madge thrilling account of how he had
chased a gray wolf, which, after running
many miles, had turned on him and vi
ciously leaped at his throat, and how he
had made Dynamite jump ON the beast
f1syafs. la III 20 ANal Il
nized in the tale merely Kids version
for Madge's ears Of his chase of the
jack rabbit
For b. that time he had become. in
her eyes, che exemplar of all that is in
spiringly bold and daring, and he felt it
necessary to keep up his reputation.
For her he was knight of prowess
who could do anything he wished and
against whom nothing could prevail So
he told her wonderful tales of what he
had seen and done and been through
and of his daily adventures and brought
10 her the occasional results of his sin
gle handed combats with birds and
beasts. He offered to dig mp u tarantu
las nest for her and 10 catch and tame
for her pleasure sidewinder rattle
snake, or. il she preferred, golden orr
ole or 4 nocking bird It dim I make
any difference 60 him whether she chose
a rattlesnake ar IA Grioie; Whatever She
wanted him to do la w.s ready to at
tempt And Naaee looket and listened
and wagshired anl aia hashiug in tho
warmth her 8d8eatiet. swaegered
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