The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-12-04

'4A tiN ahAAlN nc fuue hhu a broken
horn, which was mendod with soft
iron. AZ Biddy rode along, he III a
match from time 10 time, aud con-
suited tho compass The night was
windy, and TO protect the light he held
It and the compass close down along
side Of the saddlo-horn, where tho
iron DETECTED the needle six 10 ten
degreea Al error Of that extent
amounts to ono mile in eight When
be had been riding an hour, be was
well of the true course and already in
trouble Ia the sage brush.
BY morning he was In a thicket in
a trackless canon, bis horse played ont,
himself exhausted. Ho climbed hill
and found water on the other side
then he could not find his way back
to his horse. He spent hours looking
for the horse, gave it up, and iortu-
nately lost the compass. It then oc-
Cured to him to follow down the
canon, which soon opened out into a
little valley with a settlers cabin.
Here he learned that he was about
the same distance from town as when
he started upon his ride. Getting a
fresh mount and this time following a
travelled road, he reached town just
twonty-four hours late.
More delay ensued here, the doctor
being out Finally, with DR.. Cutler
in tow, he started back for the ranch.
During the long hours of waiting
the injured man was, by his COM
rades, made an comfortable as might
be and, as time passed beyond when
Biddy should have returned, they
sought to shorten it by anecdotes of
other accidents.
Smithy said it reminded him of a
man down in Arizona got bit by a
snake. "They sent me down to the
nearest station for whiskey. On the
way up intended only to take one
sip, but took two, and 1 never re-
membered exactly. what happened after
that, until got back with the empty
jug. And the joke OF it was, the man
was dead"
Another said Roberts hurt was just
like a case he had known, where the
doctor cut OF mans leg in two
places.
"Say, boys, said Robert, "put my
gun where 1 can reach it before that
doctor comes"
The next morning Ed Reese came
running up. Ed was what the cow
boys call natural doctor. He had
pulled teeth and cut hair on that range
for years.
ed" said Robert, "Tm powerful
glad to see you; I didn't know you
was this side the mountains. You got
to stay and fix my leg"
"Well, said Ed, 81 shaved you loti
of times; guess I can mend your leg.
Ed at once set about reducing the
Inflammation by application of fresh
meat, preferably newly killed rabbits,
split up the back and renewed every
five minutes, and by other expedientr
we'll known to cowboy doctors. Ate
some hours he announced that the les
would come out all right.
! may say here that it did, an,
eventually became better and longe
one than its mate.
Robert was comfortably asleep, an,
the boys were taking an after -dinne
smoke outside, when Biddy came j
sight with DR.. Cutler. 1t was agree
that the doctor was not to be above
to see Robert, but Smith said he ough
to have some kind of job after CON
ing SO far and how would it do t
break Biddy's leg and let him Sc
that?
When they rode up, Ed Rees
, stepped forward and informed tn
, doctor that it had all been a little iok
on Burke, that Robert was onl
. slightly bruised, had recovered an
> had gone away.
, Was he mad2 Well, he didn't sa
. much, and only grunted when E
handed up a twenty, saying the
} wished to pay for the joke.
d When the doctor had turned b
n