The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04
Nevada Kids Little joke
Got Job with the Diamond f.
Outfit or His Merits
I'D I ever tell you bout that tender
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lid I ever tell you bout that tender
- foot that Joined the Diamond e.
outfit last beef roundup? Well, say he
was a, holy terrori
1t come about this way: Our wagon
was at Cherry Coulee; we was just after
having dinner, and the boss, old Rowe,
was going round like u bear with a sore
head, buIlyragging at erybody and
everything. This was because two OF
our top-hands had got huffy and pulled
out that morning; consequently soma
of the boys was beginning to kick most
outrageous at the thou~ht of having to
do extra night herd work.
Cherry Coulee amt far from town.
and we used often to have people conc
out to look at outfit when we was
camped near town; SO when seen
a dudish-looking fellow with Chris
ty-stiff'' hat and stand-up collar come
a-wa1king towards the wagons we just
supposed he was another Of them east
ern tourists who was nosing around,
and we didn't pay any attention to him.
But he walks up to the cook, who was
monkeying round the fire, and says he:
"Mister, which Of you might be the
boss here?''
The cook just pointed at Rowe, and
the dude walks up to him and says
quite pleasantly:
Il heard in town this morning that
you wanted man, SO thought would
come out and get the job
Rowe looked at his ''Christ y-stiff'' hat,
his stuck-up collar, his silk tie, his
boiled shirt, and his pretty clothes, and
then he says, quite slowly:
s'And wkot kind of a Job mi eht you
be looking for?''
why, punching cows, of course said
the stranger.
"eYes?'' said Rowe. .sAnd what do
you know about cow-punching, and
where might you have punched COWS ?''
Down in Missouri says he, still
smiling most pleasant.
Now, perhaps you don't know it, bT-t
there amt no cow-punching in Mis-
souri,, in fact that same place is pretty
much of hayseed state, and a regular
nesting place for greenhorns and ten
derfeet; 50 when the dude said he
came from Missouri Rowe kind of
looked at him and said:
And what outfit might you have
worked for down there %
Wen, I worked for my pap says he.
Zap had nigh on to 20 cows and had
10 drive them down to the pond to
ter; pap used to ride the old hay and
used to ride Molly; sometimes I'd ride
Jim, the mule. Oh, I've had quite a lot
of riding. 1 can tell you. Nav said I
could ride WE'LL
THAT SOP said Rowe. ssWen, guess
I haven't got no JOB for YOU
WHAT said the dude, looking
mighty surprised. Perhaps you think
L can't ride good enough?''
and that's no 1e,'' said Rowe, who
was getting bit tired of him.
-'Oh, but hold oni" says Mr.. ssChristy-
| stiff You haven't seen me ride. Give
me a show; I'm pretty hard up and
want a job"
Look here,'' said Rowe, 'tyou wane
q show, and I'll give you one You ride
! that ba1d-faced bronc over there, and
if he doesn't chuck you III take you on,
and what's more, III give you top
wages
| Now. this same bronc was a regular
! outlaw and man-kilIer, and there
1 wasn't a puncher in the outfit who
/ could stay with him, though we had
some bronco-twisters who were no
! slouches either; he was vicious, bit
! ing, striking, whistling, snorting ter
ror, and as for bucking, why, he'd soon
| Weyler. 1t did seem rather low down
j to run the stranger up against such a.
cyclone, but he was SO precious green
he just jumped at the chance.
''Al1 right says he; will you give
me top wages if ride that horse?''
Surely" says Rowe. ehuckling to
himself
"And perhaps you wouldn't mind
buying me an outfit, as I'm broke?''
| said the dude.
"I'il do that" says Rowe 81 guess
sticking plaster is pretty cheap yvhis-
pered he to US boys who was standing
round.
sHere. joe" says Rowe. you go and
help Cadotte catch and saddle up old
Gen. Weyler and bring him round
i here
Some of the boys caught him up and
drove him round TO the back of the
mess tent roped him, threw him. blind