The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-30
THE ROCKIES.
A TALE OF WAR.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

o A IALE OE WAX.
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"IIoly gorillasv exclaimed the major,
looking asl,ance at the file Of rockies
who had just halted in q ragged line
before him. "I, this what left my
stool for? wos tired of that stool, too.
but didn't know what was before me.
no, didn't k1Ow!'
The major glanced down the file
again and sized them up. First came q
pale faced boy in store clothes and
cclluloid collar. Beside him stood the
huge hulk of longshoreman next the
nervous, wiry frame Of n COW puncher,.
next a fat boy who for oil the world
might have just stepped out from be-
tween the covers of some musty copy
of ''Pickwick Papers," next q youth
with handsome pair Of black eyes
and fine frank face, next q lank fellow
Of twenty odd years with the look and
the lean Of q mountaineer. next
Good Lord" exclaimed the major.
"An Indian, If I'm alIvel And this is
what I'm up against For heavens
sake, sergeant, take 'em away. Any
where-yes, to the barracks or to the
devil. if you wish; but the next time
you bring 'em out have 'em In khaki or
I'll so mad"
The sergeant saluted and dragged the
batch across the green to what the ma
jor had called the barracks. These were
six rows Of milk white tents perched
upon the crest Of the greenest Of hills,
and that day they were silhouetted
against the bluest of blue skies and
deeper blue sen.
The major stood for time gazing de-
spondently after the batch, but when
he caught sight of the blue sea and sky
his face frightened, and with q spring
in his steps and song on his iiHs &c
climbed to the hilltop TO one side OF
the camp, sat down on n bowlder and
gazed seward. The sun warmed the
majors back, the beauty that spread
before him warmed his heart, and soon
he stretched out upon the ground with
small stone as pillow and went to
sleep. BY and by, how long does not
matter. Ire was awakened by voices and
beheld before him the rockies sitting in
solemn conclave little way down'the
hill. The pale faced boy was speaking.
He ain't much for looks"
"G'wnn," Interrupted the longshore-
man. "Dld ye moind thin harrums O.
hisn an the snap in thin goggles?
Did ye moind 'ein? ask ye. Well, ye
Kin look out for i'm ef-ef, moind ye,
phwat Orm tellln ye-we gifts, into onny
tightin."
The coWpuncher opinioned Of the ma
jor words too dreadful to print: They
were SO unusual that even the long
shoreman. he of the picturesque YER
Dlase, was shocked into swallowing
his quid without gasp and dropping
his pipe
1t was the fat boys turn. but he only
snored. Then the black eyed youth
spoke up.
"Tom." he said to the cowpuncher.
with a sly twinkle ins his eyes. 1--WE
wouldn't mind your cursing IL we could
only understand what you said. Won't
you say 1t over again?"
The icngshoremnn aroused at that,
anu, stretching his long arm, he grasped
'he COW puaeher by the collar and
asked:
WAS II that little major ye was cuss.
In in that way? Ef it was, Jest ye swal-
low 1t. Moind ye, dariin, it's Mike
Olloolihan O. the Red Shtar loine
pnwats a-talkin to ye, moind."
Then Mike dropped the cowpuncher,
VINO fumbled around his hip pocket for
moment and then lay still.
The black eyed youth gras. ed Mikes
hand, and the talk passed to the noun
taineer.
BE he q revenoo manT' he asked.
I've shot ut n many one OF 'em, but
never met 'em face to face.''
Inc cowpuncher looked gratefully
Ut the mountaineer, and that time his
lively.
"Rifle?' he asked.
Yep" said the mountaineer.
moment Of silence, and tho Indian
s"nced from one to the other, grunted
ana rolled over to sleep, with his head /,
,.,.sung upon the upturned stomach of
ae rat bny ,..ss ..sss act &C sent the major
,n'o ut Of laughter. He could not get
W lie would. so he began to roll
uowh the hill as he had done many "a
,a n'ne IN his boyhood, anu presently he
.ahued against the guy ropes OF his
U"h tent IN Officers row. The next !
ulie that tha ...,Ss ..;,,,ixtfI rnon tle
ost ast OF rockies II was with keen inter
a. sHow, 20 between the major md this Gle