The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-29

then this yere Woodruff steps over to
his pony, an takin' his Winchester off
the saddle, sorter cuts down with IL in
my direction, an onhooks her-"bangw'
" The bullet raises the dust over about
fifty yards to :he right. Nacherally l
pulls up my pony, an while I'm settin'
thar irwin to figger on Woodruff's sys-
tenn. "bang!' goes his Winchester ag'in
an a streak of dust lifts up, say, fifty
yards TO the left Havin' a Winchester
that away this yere Woodruff can over
play me with only a six-shooter, so 1
quits him an rides away. AS l withdraws
he hangs his rife on his saddle ag'in.
all serene to his maverick"
It's a week later goes on Jack
Moore when ! cuts the trail of Woodruff
over in Tascosa- l stands him up in
the dance hall an asks whatever he's
shootin at me for that day near the Ser
rita la Cruz
Which / never sees you nohow,' re-
plies this yere Woodruff. laughin'. I new
er cuts down on you with no Winches-
bein' here all peevish an irritated is
plumb good proof / never was shootin
at you. But bein' you're new to the Pan
handle country an to Texas let me give
you a few p'nters on COW etiquette an
range manners. Whenever you notes a
gent affair, off with a firm .goin', an
mark up a whole lot with his own private
hieroglphic, don't you go pesterin' round
him at all. Don't go near him. It's agn
the law in Texas to brand calves lonely,
an forlorn that away, without stoppin'
to herd EN- over to some well-known cor
raj, an the punishment it threatens, be-
in several years in Huntsville, makes
gent when he's violatin' II a heap sullen
an morose, an he don't hunger none for
company to see what he's at, an mebby
get roped up before court to tell what
ever they may know. So, as | says, an
merely Stain great truth in Panhandle
etiquette yereafter when you beholds a
fellow-bein' with calf laid out to run a
brand onto, don't go near him a little bit.
It's good manners to turn your back onto
him an. ignore him plumb severe ;ssI Hes s
testified in refoosin to affiliate with him,
so you ride straight away from every
outcast you track up aginst who is en-
day he cuts loose his Winchester at you
over by the Serrita la Cruz
That's what this Woodruff says,
Moore allows, windin' up his interruption
about what's good manners in Texas; an
when it's all explained to me l sees the
buys nose paint for each other. shakes
hearty an drops the discussion for good.
But It all comes to this, that manners is
sometimes heap born of geography, an
what goes for polish an the p'lite.play in
st. Looey don't do for Texas at all
:" Nightly likely. says Sam Enright.
What Texas Thompson an Jack Moore
interjects yere is dead correct; but after
all this question about what's good man.
ners in way one side Of the main trail.
barkeep do his best an when every gent
has got his p'isen, Dave TUFTS proceeds
forard with the KILN of this yere Jack
Rainey.'
Coin on as to said Rainey.' remarks
Tut, followin of our drink with Enright,
as 1 observes when Texas an Moore in
terrupts me with them interestin' OUT
breaks touchin' good manners, Rainey
gets ag'i inst it over in a jim-crow camp
called Lido; an this we're was a long spell
ago.
=" 'Rainey turns in an charters every
bar in Lido an gets his brand onto all the
nose paint He's out to give the camp an
orgy an not gent can spend a splinter
or lose a chip to any bar for a week A
gent orders his forty drops an the bar
keep pricks it onto tab, an at the end
of week Jack Rainey settles up all along
the line, an the saturnalia, as historians
calls EN-, that away is over. l might
add that Jack Rainey gives way to these
we're charities once year, an the camp
of Lido is plumb used tharto an approves
tharof.'
" ON this sad occasion when Jack Rain
ey gets killed this we're excellent custom
he invents is in full swing an about half
played through as a deal. Thar's notices
printed plenty big an posted up in every
drink-shop from the dance hall to the
Golden Rod saloon, which they reads as
follows: