The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-01

Scene, but Draws No differences The
Exciting Point at Which He Away,
Stops the Tale.
"Mi-roshs' said the old Texas sheep
man who was doing most of the talking.
u don't remember of ever seein mi-rosh,
but seen mi-ridges lots of times. There
was one now, seen in Encinal county
that was, you might say, peculiar, consid-
erin other things that happened along
with it,.
"Do these mirages," said the young
man from the east in the striped shirt and
straw hat, appear to be reflections of OBJ
jects in the vicinity, or are they sometimes
phantasmagoria of unrecognized scenes
from unknown distances, or even illusions
conjured up by some mysterious effort of
nature that seemed to present objects real
ly nonexistent!"
Il told you, said the old sheep man, ~
| never saw no mi-roshes, and don't know
if they cut up capers such as you attempt for
| TO describe or not. was goin to tell you
about this mi-ridge what l spoke about.
lone day / was ridin after "a bunch of
| muttons what strayed off from one of my
| focks, and about shutdown found / was
lost. / was down in a big mesquite flat
| and couldn't see 90 yards in any direction.
You might think it strange for an old
rancher like me to get lost, but the best
of em do sometimes.
"Well, after l was sure / was lost l
staked my pony and laid down for the
night. l was too worried TO sleep much
for left my wife and 3-month-o old baby
at home, and l knew she'd be awful wor-
ried about me- AS soon as il got light
enough to see jumped on my boss, and
rode up hill to see where l was l seen
Iona Alta mountain and the line of the
Frio and l knew in minute about where
l was. / struck out, and when it got good
daylight l was ridin up the chaparral
ridge on Green branch and seen the motto
OF coma trees that l knowed was Just 10
mile from my ranch.
when / got on top of the hill, / pulled
my pony up, and liked to jumped out of
my saddle / seen the Frio river which
knowed was good 10 mile away rsn up
and hangin on the edge of the horryzon,
kind of pale and ghostlike but as plain to
be seen as if it was only quarter of a
mile off. / seen the leaves on the live oak
trees that lined the banks And lust
across the river l seen my house and cor
rails and everything about the place lookin
not bit farther off than good hollerin
distance. i seen the woodpile near the
door and the AK stickin in chunk
seen our pet sheep a-walkin about in the
yard, and l seen the saddles on the fence
and the water barrels in the wagon and
the milk pans settin on the shelf under the
trees. Everything looked kind of spooky-
like and seemed to be drawed out up and
down like you see things in some lookin
glasses what's got flaws in 'em.
Il say / stopped my pony minute and
just looked. It's a kind of funny feelin to
see things that look like you could hit
EN- with "a rock and know they are 10
mile off. was just about to stick my
spurs in and be off when the back door of
my house, which was facin me, opened,
and my wife came and stood in it with the
baby in her arms. yelled at her before l
stopped TO think, and then felt foolish.
just then / seen black shadow a-movin
through the mist and then it come into
what / s'pose you d call the prospective,
and l seen it was big Mexican gettin off
his boss at the gate. He stumbled in the |
yard, and / seen he was drunk My wife |
slipped inside and shut the door. The |
Mexican grabbed the AK out of the wood |
pile and smashed the panel of the door in. |
1t was awful to see this, and know them |
miles what laid down between me and |
that there mi-ridge. / never heard a sound, !
Of course, but l seen the splinters fly from |
5he door, and then / must have lost INV
sense for minute, bein worked up so. 1 {
cussed once real low down, I
and / grabbed my winchester out of its
'cabbard and drawed bead on the infer
lal greaser and banged away.
My gun sounded like cannon, every
hing was so still, and / cussed myself
lg in for bein fool and / stuck my spurs
N my boss and the gravel flew through
he chaparral like hail
The sun was pretty near up, and Just
hen the mi-ridge began to get all crooked
md kind of went up in steam. l covered
hem 10 miles in an hour, and when l
ode up the hill at my home and jumped
III my boss had tears in his eyes, and he
eaned up against the feed rack and looked
It me reproachful. / wa mt thinkin of no
loss. / yelled for my wife, and l was
fraid like death she wouldn't answer.
When she came tumblin out the front door
cryin, but safe and sound, with the kid
n her arms, L got as weak as blade of
acuista grass l got 'em in my arms, and
s neither of 'em could talk, one ON ac-
cunt of Mysteries and the other from ju-
emile disabilities, l dragged 'em both
ound to the back door for to see.
II seen him.
He was layin there dead as dog with
bullet hole right between his shoulders
nd his sombrero and the AK layin by him,
nd the busted door hangin by one hinge.
Never heard no gun, my wife said
7hen she got her tongue back. Never
aw nobody after he dropped a."
do you think'- began the young
nan from the east in the straw hat and
tripod shirt
Il don't think nothin," said the old
heep man. I'm a-tellin you what hap
ened and not how it done it, / got the
ullet out OF the grcaser and tried it in my
un ~
did it ftp asked the young man anx-
)usly
II always stops that tale" said the
hccp man, right there. A man what's
OF any rcspccs lOr his word and bein be-
eyed cant tell everything he knows
tight there is where that mi-ridge story
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