The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-08
THE ROUNDER.

The Rounder has been away Interview
ing the clerk Of the weather. He was
afraid that the clerk was neglecting his
business and summer was going to make
sneak on him, and rob winter of its due
allotment of the year. 1t was not that
he had any objection to the fine weather,
but he hated to hear the old coffee
coolers sit around, and lie about the
winters they had seen like this one back
in the sixties, when it was so hot in
March chat the skins on the buffaloes
cracked, and they had tog three weeks
| without water, travelling from Fort
Benton to Whoop-Up There is some
thing peculiar about the memories of
these old timers when the weather is
under consideration. They can give the
exact date of storm that happened
fifty years ago, but they could not tell
for the life of them what they did with
the furs they stole from the Indians that
same winter or what squaw they had
then. The Rounder had been figuring
out scheme to prophesy the weather
out in this country until he would have
had an attack of brain fever only for the
absence of material. He has watched
the praire chickens dig their boles
and the badgers build their nests, and
the beavers slush around in their ponds
until he was cold and hungry, and has
come to the conclusion that these things
know no more abont Montana winters
than the old timers, and care less,
The Rounder received photographic
message from Utopia recently, and the
citizens want him to come home. It
seems that some people in Dupuyer or
vicinity have been maligning him and
the Utopians are anxious to take up
arms or legs or anything else in his de
fense. They only await his coming to
lead the van, when they win search for
the Williams and dance Red river jig on
tneir mutiated remains. The message
implored him to use his influence to
persuade the government to issue rations
to them the same as the Piegans. It
would not be necessary to establish a
new Agency just yet until the rest OF
onr people get down from Canada. In
the meantime an extra clerk might be
put the force at the Old Agency, and
supply the Utopians upon some day
besides Satur- lay. OF course, they could
not be expected to WELD the butcher
knife at the slaughter house or stand
shoulder to shoulder at the ware house
counter, with the low bred Piegans
It's a good idea and as soon as the walk
ing gets good the Rounder viii go to. !
Washington to see about it.
A stranger in the country wants to
know who the Ronnder is. He
does not remem Der where or when he
was born, but his father held govern
ment job for years and impaired his
tenacious characteristics to his offspring, |
but held on to the job himself. While |
yet young man he got a county Office,
and he has been wanderer on the face
Of the earth since he Nlost it. Strange
how a county office units man for any
thing else. It's like loco weeed on a /
cayuse, though it hurts him ne likes it. |
His name is mud, and has been ever
since he was defeated for that said Office, |
He is the lover of fortune, bat the |
affianced husband of misfortune, (that is |
a pun) Any person who will enclose !
two-bits to pay postage and the drinks |
can find out as much as they like by |
writing to him All correspondence
strictly confidential and in plain enye
lope.