The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1897-01-19
PAT AND HIS STRIPED PONY.
Joke That Cost the Irishman Two Days
In the Guardhouse

IN the Guardhouse.
An amusing incident is reported from
one of the military posts in the far west,
the chief actors i'm which were a China
man, several cowboys, Indians and a
soldier or two. The post was quite
close to the headquarters of the Indian
agent, who ranked as major. and as
the officers of the regiment and the
officials of the agency were friendly, in
terchanges of hospitality were fire.
-Huent, not only among the masters,
hut among the men. The regimen,
also possessed heather Chinese cook
who was given to visiting brother
celestial who superintended the GU
iinary arrangements of the agent, anil
one night the dwellers of the agency
were nightly surprised to see Wun
Lung come cantering over from the post
to pay his regular visit to Gee Wo.
The sight of Chinaman on pony
back was SO rare as to attract much
attention, and the fact that the pony in
question was little milk-white cayuse
caused the devil to enter into the Irish
tnan. who put in his time serving the
agent and playing practical jokes. Soon
the cayuse was safely housed, and with
in few minutes after the gentleman
from the fiowery kingdom was seeking
the golden sunlight of the pipe dream
Then was Pats time, and taking a pot
of black paint. he proceeded to invest
the pony with a series of stripes which
would have made the best breed zebra
in South Africa turn green with envy.
In the morning the Chinaman set GU.
for the stable. but when he reached it
and viewed the striped cayuse, his ex
preston indicated that he rather ques
toned the quality of the brand of pipe
goods proffered him the night before.
In the meantime Pat, taking advan.
tagc of a superstition existing among
the Indians, had told them that the
striped pony had come to them at last,
end was, in fact, in the stable at thai
very moment. The chief, dozen bucks,
and twice as many squaws at once set
ont for the agency stable and appeared
on the scene just as the Chinaman was
standing at the stable door and wonder
ing whether he was asleep or awake.
With much majesty the chief entered
the stable and united the pony and
essayed TO lead him away to the sacri-
flee. With yell that discounted any
thing ever credited in opera, song, story
or reality, and quickly brought his
countryman TO his aid, the heather Chi
nese sailed into the equally heather
chief, and in trice the two were
doubled up together, liberated the pony
making the best of his way homeward
with his head between his heels to es
cape the dozen or so ropes that were
cast at his retreating form.
The two wearers Of pigtails were get
ting the worst of il very decidedly
when Pat appeared on the scene, and by
good deal of persuasion, coupled with
the exercise of some bodily strength,
succeeded in separating the combat
ants.
Next morning the papers had scare
heads over press dispatches describing n
great Indian outbreak and the secre'
tary of the interior wired that forenoon
for full details. A total denial was, of
course, entered, and when Pat had put
in two days in the guard house as u
penalty for his hilarity, the whole ir-
cident was forgotten. Nevertheless,
something like hundredweight Of the
national archives at Washington con.
tanned the official correspondence re
lating to Pats painted pony.-The
Horseman.
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