The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-05-18

AWAY, even If y0N-aI keeps EN- on the
move; for the woolly ediots, an do their
best, can't travel more'n six miles Il day.
Sheep possesses but one strong pint: they
can 60 wi bout water longer than Hug
gins or Old Monte. Otherwise, they sizes
up for as footile a form OF anamile as ever
desolates a smilin' range an sets your cat
tie to huntin' other scenes an pastures
new.
LAS I states. this low flung Smith gets
into Parker's Arroya-him an his sheep
an they're thar 4 week. AT last Bob Rob
erson, who's manager OF the Lit outfit.
rides over an demonstrates. But Smith IS
sullen an allows some he'll stay wnere
hes at.
(which I don't reckon now you-ail Is
the State of Texas monet says Smith -
Bob, by way of q Closin' blum.
No returts Bob: i shore amt the
State Of Texas, or outcasts who nerds
sheep like you would 20 10 Huntsville for
twenty Years. But I'm u mighty fertile
gent about eNpedien;si that Away, an II
you don't move camp, / shore hurbors the
idee you're goin' 10 have bad luck-you an
them said sheep
IT'S second drink time next mornin'. an
Smith an the sheep is still p'isenin' Par
ker's arroyo. Thereupon Bob takes Bill CAT
lin an four or five more riders who's at
the Lit home ranch. an rounds up the
head OF the arroyo, an comes swarmin'
down on that egreegious Smith an mis-
outfit with about a thousand head of cattle.
Which it's ever been a subject OF regrets
with me that l amt thar in person none to
witness the engasin' spectacle. Folks who
beholdS the same assures me thar amt
been nothin' like II since the stormin' OF
the Springer jail when Jack HiXenbaugh
gets drilled through the knee an Red
River Tom is lynched. The cattle goes in
diligently to work. They stampedes in
among the sheep, an losses EN-. The air
is full of sheep an wool an the warcries
of indignant cattle. Son, they kills off 100
of Smiths sheep right thar. an you hear
me, he's plumb ready to shift his grain
grounds, Smith is, when the frolic's over.
An he amt goin' about none. maxim in
sultin' inquiries. Is Bob the State Of
Texas neither.
It's doorin' the progress of this success
full piece of strategy that Bill Gatlin's pnny
slips an falls on Bills off laig. Snap, goes
both of Bits bones below the knee. The
others tharupon collects Bill a heap, swims
the Canadian with him an packs him over
to the L I T ranchhouse. Then they spreads
Bill on some blankets an that
Doc Chepp from Tascoca. said hamlet be-
in, say, mebby a mile away.
"W'hen this Chepp gets TO Bill he looks
owley an KNOWN an tries 10 let on that,
besides Bills laig, he's also injured internal
L lot.
- 'MehhN so, says Bill. q nedl SCOrfllul.
Still, you-all conftne your excitement to the
laig. Anything that's fetched loose internal
I'll undertake to correct, with Valley Tan
Whereupon Bill takes about forty drops by
way of initiatin' a treatment.
Seem Bills cynical about them internal
injuries. this Chepp don't say no more. but
sets the bones an fixes up Bits laig. That
done, he lines out for his wickeyup in Tas-
coSa. some ugly because Bill won't let him
light a lantern an go romancin' about in
his interior for wounds.
ITS most likely a hour later when Bill
raises the long yell as I'm sa'nterin' by the
door of the camphouse where he's pulled
up on his blankets like n damaged rattle
snake. When ! goes a-weavin' in, l finds
Bill in a rage. He demands that the splints
an bandages be removed, an gives IL out
cold that they amt on right. Also he offers
four TO one that this we're Chepp don't savoy
broken laigs more than Mexicans saveys
constitutional gov'ment.
bills as hot as a brandin' iron: I sees
that easy. An Bill has grounds; his laig
has done swelled ontil the splints is buried
in Bill clost onto a inch. Shore. Bits in
agony. He can't get at the bandage none or
he'd onslewed it himself.
which I'm a heap consecutive that a.
way. an l don't go buttin' in. ontyin' BAN
dages an ondoin' broken laigs impulsive.
I cams Bin, an allows I'll fetch Chepp an
let hin reconstruct his game more To Bill's
comfort.
" Don't bring that holdup herer says Bill.
so shore as he shows in the door, I'll down
him. From now, that doctors barred
A Bills gun is layin on the window
sill where he can reach il, an as thars
no use promotin' needless homicides, 1 don't
send for Chepp.
Get Bob Robertson says BlI. 'Bob's
had two arms an a iaig busted. an is shot
five times dOOrin' the Lincoln County war.
1t looks like he oughter know plenty about
medicine
This we're sounds feasible. so Bob comes
into the case. He sizes up Bits laiC: an
then without a word, he throws il loose
from them splints an bandages mighty