The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-12
ION AND JERRY WHEELERS.

NOostinacy or love. that away. when
Folks pushes EN- to excess Is shore bad
medicine Which I'd be a heap loath to
count the numbers them two attribootes
harrtes to the tomb Why. son, it's these
yere sentiments that kills off my two wheel
mules, Tom an Jerry"
Thu Old Cattleman appeared to be on the
verge of abstract discussion. As a meta
phyelcian. he was not to be borne with.
There was one method OF escape; / inter-
Tered TO trap the currents of his yolubility
into other and what were to me, at least,
more interesting channels
Tell OF the urail-or a story about ami
mails / urged. You were saying recently
that perfect systems of oral. II not verbal,
communication existed between mules. and
that you had listened for hours to their
gossip Give me the history of one Of your
freiShting trips and what befell along the
trail; and don't forget that comment there
en-wtse. doubtless. 1t was too-of your
long-aared servants OF the rein and trace
chain"
Tell you what chances along their trail?
Son. you-all opens a wide-fiung range for
my mem'ry to Craze over. l might tell you
how once. I'm lost freigtin' from Vegas into
the Panhandle. an am two days without
-water-blaZin' hot JoOly days. SO hot You
couldn't touch tire chain or bolt-head with
out fryin' your fingers An how at the
COse Oh Tue scCODU Gay, NDsl i DaIlS III
at Cobra Springs. l las down by that cold
an blessed fountain an drinks till | aches.
Which them two days of thirst terrorizes
me TO sech degrees that for one plumb year
thereafter, l never meets UP with water
when l don't drink a quart, like I'm Iayin'
up az in smother parched spell.
Which / throws these yere hints loose
this away merely TO show you what might
be aIloo6ed to by way of narratits. grave
an gay. of sights pecooliar to the trail, IL
only some gent Of long experiences ups an
GevoteS himself 10 them relations. AZ ii is,
however, an recurrin' to Tom an Jerry
The same bein'. as l informs you, my two
wheel mules-I reckon how / might better
set forth about how they comes to die that
time. AS / remarks at the go-off, it's OBJ
stinacy downs Jerry: while pore, tender
Tom, perishes q victim-yolunteer at that
to the love he bars hat contrary mate of
his
Them mules. Tom an Jerry. Is obtained
by me. original. in Vegas. They're the
wheelers OF a eight-mule team. an 1 gives
Frosty-whos a gambler an wins EN- at
monte OF some locoed sport from Chaparita
twelve hundred dollars, incloosif OF wag-
ons, for the outfit Which the same Is
cheap an easy at double the dinero.
These yere mules has been part an
passel os the estates Of some Mexican, for
I hnds a cross marked on each harness an
likewise on both wagons NSxicans does
this to run q bluff on any evil sperit that
away who comes projectin' round. No,
your American mule skinner never makes
them crosses. AS a roole he's plumb defiant
of sperits; an even when he ain t. he don't
nacherally see no refooge in a cross Mex
leans. OH the other hand. is plenty strong
on this symbol Every mornin' you beholds
q Mexican with a dab Of white on his
foreerd, an on each cheek bone. an also
on his chin, where he crosses himsef with
dour. Shore; said custom is yooniversal an
It takes a quart of -four every mornin' to
organize a full-blown Greaser household
sginst them anticipated perils of the day.
Which, no sooner am l cl'ar of Vegas
I'm camped near the Plaza de la Concep-
cion at the time-when j sort o. rounds UP
them eight mules an looks en- over with