The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-02-06

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but the actual result as repreeented In Jot
| was neither gratifying nor edifytng, saw
IN one qualifcation was an excellent
| cowboy. But the vices Of the young rasca
| QyershadoWed and poisoned to great ex
tent his attainments In even this career
for so cruel was he that no owner Of horse
| flesh could see him vault into the saddle
and draw blood with q first stroke of the
spur without q thrill Of sympathetic pair
and an involuntary expression Of disgust,
On the other hand. when, tempted to
distant strayinQ by the sweet upsnrino,no
grasses Of early June, the horse band scat'
tered far and wide upon the boundless
prairie, and, grown canny through long
experience of cruel man, made use of every
billock and rayine to eyade pursuit. there
was none like Joe to find and bring them
IN, and, though his mount on such occa.
+ sions stood totterinQ with bloody and beav.
ing TANKS and rolling eyeballs TINT seemed
to crave mercy. bellyfuI Of y4ater from
the stream hard by and a few hours, crop.
| ping Of the grass would bring him round
again, and, even If it didn't, what matter9
"Only $40 worth of horsefesh, I" said Joe.
Then the amount of "cow sense,' DOS
sessed by our hero was almost startling
Riding his watch around the herd on new.
er so black night, he seemed the very in
carnation of prescience. No fat bullock
could rise from Its lair In the bunch grass
and steal away from its comrades, doomed
to slaughter in the distant stockyards,
without nearing the rapid dntter of JOe's
pony's hoofs and seeing itself confronted
by the dark lad, whose eyes glittered with
cruel menace, and whose lips poured forth
fresh yolley of imprecation with each
furious whirl of his lariat.
When calves were to be branded, no pitt
ful bleating softened Joe's heart nor staid
his hand. Choked to the point OF death by
the tension OF his cruel moose, these tender
creatures were dragged mercilessly through
mud or dust or stones or blazing embers,
while their moaning mothers ga2ed with
lolling tongues and bloodshot eyes upon
their offspring's agonies, and joe sweep
ing savage grace from his saddle bow,
scooped up handful Of dirt and flung IT
with derisive laughter into their poor
dumb faces Yet no man of the whole out.
fit could drag so many calves as he in
given time to the branding fire, and time is
valued even on the plains.
Now, Il Joe had COME 10 his death nv
trampling Of cattle in q midnight STAN.
pede or goring at the horns of a 1naddened
cow, or If his pony, rendered desperate by
spur thrusts and powerless to shake from
its back so expert a rider, had suddenly
reared and flung itself backward crushing
him to the ground tbe end al Nis mn
pleasant youth would have been in ,owiso
singular. But that this dunahill weed
should experience n fate sucb as Nelson or
Terry might have eloricd In WINS certainlv
an extraordinary examnle of fine yag,rins
of destiny
Autumn ,yos come and tho bord u,
choicest beevcs was gathered seated tr,n,
quill in their saddles, the owners contem.
plated with infinite satisfaction their sleek
sides and contented foces Excitement nj
any kind meant shrinknge of flesh and was
to be strenuously avoided because of tbc
corresponding shrinkape in tbo rockets ot
the two gentlemen on horseback who
looked through those living prime roasts
to q roseate perspectiye Of n winter of
pleasure and luxury following upon the
summer of toll and hardship, There is
usually u thorn to the rose somewhere.
Here there was n river to he crossed-a
river which at this season should have
been little more than n ripnlng rill hnt
which recent and phenomenal rains had
swollen to an alarming volume. It's tursid