Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-05-16

have boom then. and great revi-
val Of business and trade.
p. McAdarrah has finally decided
% settle down permanently in Patch
Grove, aud has purchased the Chas
Dickinson farm north Of town.
The Misses Ruby and Belva Wag-
ner, and Messrs. Bert Wagner and
Eddie Stephens OF Lancaster, spent
Sunday with Us.
Arthur Robertson has finished his
years work at the Chicago Dental
school and is home again.
This neighborhood was considerably
excited Saturday over the news that
a team of horses. a harness and a
buggy had been stolen at Bosco bel
and the thieves were heading this
Way. 1t seems they were stolen
from a gentleman named Miller who
was attending a Modern Woodman
gathering at Boscobel Thursday
night, and he did not discover his
loss until next morning when he went
out TO care for them. Two tramps
were suspected, but no traces of them
or the horses were discovered until a
son OF MIR Miller who is station agent
at Bridgeport, saw them drive across
the bridge and recognized the team.
The news was spread and chase given
at once. but it seemed a. ii the earth
had swallowed them up completely,
until late Saturday afternoon, when
the buggy was found at one side Of
the road on a bank, near Horton :,
west of town. Early Sunday morning
Under Sheriff Coz and posse cap
tured the men out toward Wyalusing.
but they were minus. the horses.
They had stripped off the harness.
hung it on tree and turned the
horses loose in the woods. All was
found later. and the prisoners We're
taken to Lancaster for their prelimi-
nary hearing.
A Patch Grove youth. who has late
lv been presented with team Of
broncos, is responsible for the follow
ing composition: ''Iown two broncos.
They are the first | ever owned.
Broncos are nearly as bad as mules.
like a mule better. When a mule
goes to buck he lays back his ears,
but broL co don't. Sometimes they
90 and sometimes they don't. Some
times | find myself going through the
mud on my bro-co at the dizzy rate
OF sixty miles minute, and some
times l ride about fifteen feet in the
air and light in the mud.
Il would sooner curry the hind
legs OF a bronco than the side Of one
because when you are behind him
YOU only have 10 watch his hind feet
but when YOU are beside him You
have TO watch both ends at the same
time. Broncos are like church MEM
Ders They attack you only when
your back is turned, just like the
preacher who breaches about you
when YOU are not at church.
Il have not ridden both my bron-
cos. One OF them Is the worst bucker
except his mother, that | was ever on.
Cne of my broncos has a glass eye.
The side this eve is on is the side YOU
don't want to 20 near. He can look
a hole through a board fence with
"One Of my broncos is lame, but
he can buck ust the same. Broncos
are different from the horses tLeY
raise here. A bronco can 90 through
forty nine different motions at once
while q common horse can only g.
through one.
Il used to own a common horse
but | sold him. | wouldn't own any
thing but bronco. They make my
lie 50 exciting There are excep-
tions to all rules but there are no eX-
ceptious TO my broncos.
My broncos don't buck when you
get On them, but will 60 al right
and then buck when you aie not ex-
pectiug it, Wait till / drive my
broncos. am going to break my
broncos from bucking when they quit
throwing me off.
20. | like nv broncos because they
are mean. not because they are pretty.
Some people wouldn't have bronco
on the place, but | wouldn't have
ANYTHING else. ! like a balky bronco
because sometimes you want them to
stop and they wont. but if trey are
balky and balk at just that time, they
are all right
.Broqeos are like billy goats. They
always hit You where it hurts. My
broncos are not much bigger than
billy goats. Broncos are nice things
to have.
Mr.. and Mrs Geo. Anderson. Fred
Booth and Jennie Key. and Nose and
Edna Key spent sunday at the river.