Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-06

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oxen when they hawed out of the trail
tender. you don't need to tell me be-
cause you wasn't more'n three miles
off, an could hear YOU"
81 amt givin' you this on my own
say-so. 1 got it from a man with side
whiskers that comes out from Iowa to
renovate his lungs, which was wore
some. He called me his friend the first
clatter out of the box, an he told me
that cussin' was vishus an didn't do no
good, and that there wuz law agin it
In Iowa, besides it bein' wrong on gem
eral princerples. 1 guess he must ha'
known what he was talkin' about. You
can't never tell what some of theseleg-
islatures In the states are likely to
spring on free people. studied over
1t heap, an 1 conclood that q man
can jest as well az not talk United
States without trimmin's If he oncet
gets into the habit of it. 1 reckon he
could quit before it got too strong for
him IL he found it was injurin' his
| health"
"Why don't you try It, then2" said
the stock tender.
81 thought you had some glmmerin's
or horse sense" answered the old bull
whacker. 81 hain't freightin' with To-
eomotive along q standard-gauge
track; I'm directin' bulls, an have to
give EN- their instructions in languages
they can understand along stretches
Of gumbo. II didn't have no regard
for the feelln's Of dumb beaEAs I x,igkt
make half time by soclin' the buck
skin to EN- every jump in the road,
but amt that kind Of a man, an a
animal needs his hide to keep the Hies
off,"
IF it wasn't for that you'd quit ]
s'pose," said the stock tender.
A. Z"Mebbs I would an then again
nebbe I wouldn't" replied the old
bull whacksr. - =
81 did oncet an I didn's enjoy Il.
That was when was ranchin' down
on Box Elder, an my sisters son
Dick come, cut to stay with me. ]
was pinto the fac that there was q
prs-joodice aginst the use OF vigorous
talk back In the east before 1 me.
the man with the side whiskers, al
though had sorter forgot IL. My
sister reminded me of IL when she
| wrote an said that she would worry
about the kidd, because she knew that
We INDUCED in coarseness out west
a. she'd hate right smart to see
Dick get coarse. wrote back to her
an give myself a good character, an
10 seemed ike she took considerable
stock in 1t an impressed IL on the
kid.
After awhile Dick come along an
intsrdoooed himself. He wuz a nice
lookin' ldd about 20, an he had ben
studtin' tooth butcherin' at Saint
Looey. BE asst me about what
church privileges we had right off
an I was grieved to, inform him that
we wuz short an he wus grieved to
hear 1t. He wuz a quiet kid an sdidn't
say much. Sometimes Il used to
think he had suthin' on his mind the
way he acted. We didn't get very
sosherbie. he not havin' much to say
an me bein' the same way"
The stock tender snorted.
"Well, when had anythin' to say
I most ginerally went away down
the gulch apiece an said it. I wore
4 q trail there, sure did. II 1t wuzn't
convenient to leave the shack when
things was goin' wrong ] KEEP my
mouth shut an felt uncomfortable
an things went along that-a-way for
about a month, an the kid seemed
to be gettin' more uneasy all the
time. an 1 didn't press him hard to
stay when he talked about cuttin
his visit short.
"Finerly one evenin' ut supper
time he upset some hot coffee In his
lap, an after squirmin' around q
| spell an remarkin' how 1t hurt him
he got up an went outdoors an ]
seen him streakin' fer the barn. He
wuz gone about five minits, an when
he came back he looked as II he wuz
teelin' good. / didn't say nothin'
but day or two after that he wu1
| mill1in' in the corral an q mean one
horned cow had kicked him galley
west, with the milk on top Of him
symperthized with him an said II
wuz too bad, an he agreed with me-
In his mild way. Then he said he be.
lieved he would go to the house.
'I folIered him that time, havin
my suspicious, an when stopped al
the door an listened found that
they hadn't ben misplaced no ways
What you said awhile back, Henry
wuz honey an merlasses to what
that kid was sayin' about that cow
After that little INGREDIENT we got tC
know each other better, an our con
versation wuz more general an free
liked him furst-rate, an he wuz the
&eGt poker player ever went uT
against"
Say" said the stock tender, look
ng up suddenly, 81 want you TO tel
nae just what she said to you an
what you said to her."-Chicagv
Daily Record.