Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-11

This said a regular with a bullet in
his knee, would ave made Sulky Sam
laugh loud, If ever he could laugh loud
who was Sully SAM said his neigh
Dor, nursing a broken arm.
"Sulky Sam said the other, making
himself as comfortable as he could in the
bank. "Sulky Sam was the naturally
meanest-you haven't got no Tobacco
NO" said the other, Il told you twice
1 hadn't"
Not in the wrong pocket? Fellers
sometimes leaves a chew forgot in the
wrong pocket"
There amt none I've felt andA felt"
said the soldier, somewhat %irritably.
A sharp cry of pain came from the
fallen ranks near them.
He's bad" said the first man. II guess
he won't last for doc. That was a hot
time
Why would Sulky Sam have enjoyed
this sort of fun?'
Because he was a natural devil He
liked to make fellers feel bad-durn him.
Well, he's in hell, anyhow, When our
outfit was in Wyoming, he Joined with a
batch of rockies. They'd been three
weeks marching UP to the post, and by
the time they got to us every rookie hated
Sam, and was afraid of him"
"A bruiser?"'
"Bruiser be bowed! Sulky Sam never
would put up his fists. nor hardly open
ris mouth, either. He was just mean all
through. When he laughed you'd get mad
If YOU heard him 80 yards away His
laugh was like a wolf laughing. When
he spoke at all he'd no good word to say
for the country-he was furrin-nor the
army, nor his own people. nor nobody.
Yet he warn't sassy: he just dunno
sort of sneered. He wGs black haired and
yeller-faced, and had the damnedest eyes.
He didn't often look at you, but when he
did you felt like given him one for pur-
soomlng to be human. Them eyes made
the rockies afraid. Say, did you ever
hear tell of the evil eye? It's rot, of
course. All the same. Sulky Sam had the
evil eye. Way they found out was at
Fort Laramie on the road UP.
Tommy Carroll-Apples Carroll, cause
of his c~heeks-got boozed at the post
traders n came back to camp gay.
Apples was happy an singin' as a baby
with a old shoe when he was drunk. but
that time soon's he saw Sulky Sam he
went for him Just as quick as Sans
sn2erin' eyes saw him, and he be:ted sam
good, too. Wot happened? Why, Apples
was down with typhoid next day an had
to be left IN the hospital at Fort Lara
ME. That wouldn't have mattered, but
this ere beast seemed to like to see fellers
suffer or in tr0uble-Cntoyed it, took on
interest If it. d--n him, liked to look on.
80 enc of them rockies got his ankle
broke nosln' after jackrabbits near camp,
and there was an Offsir went GU. with
sam ana another man and a blanket to
carry hum IN. The rookie was in measIy
agony, and sam grinnad all the time. Off
sir makes a litter of the blanket and two
poles and orders the men walk gently.
cause 1t was rough travelling. Did Sulky
Sam walk carefully? Not him. He
walked half drunk and went out of his
road a yard to find a rock to trip over.
The rookie screamed cut.
BE careful. my man. says the offsir.
Soon the rookie screams out again and
curses Sam.
You're an awkward lout,' says the
otfsIr. BE careful
Rookie screams again.
"'You did that On purpose!' Wells the
offsir, ard makes them lay the rookie
down, kicks Sam hard, and takes Sans
place himself. What happened? Offs:r
shot a deer on the march next day. tried
70 load 1T on q mule, and was Kicked all
to pieces. Sulky Sam hung around4while
they was dressing him on the ground,
pretending to help. but his snaer and
his eyes and the way he enjoyed himself
was disgusting. SO the rockies was
afraid OF him. Everything that dis
pleased that yellow devil was
SURE TO BE REVENGED
very soon. Why, q rookie growlod at him
for not bringing in his share of wood
to camp one night. sam g%rinnsd and
looked at him and next day a wagon
wheel rolled over the rockies foot. There
was a heap Of accidents in that batch
that came into Wyoming in the early
eighties.
Say, there's tilat poor devil screaming