The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-01

sufficient to totally ruin the tempar M
any decent beast. be IT.. therefore
Resolved That this af1rzssis
Lordship' be and is hereby Command
ed TO leave at home when he goes +,
subsequeht hunting expeditions ezrtsi-
articles Of dress. namely. one dWarfs5
stovepipe hat and one white six nm
brellas and also
RESOLVED, That he shall paste alter
nate stripes Of blue and white over bi,
Hunkey's red coat. as this is STRICTLY
American community. UnWilingness
upon His Lordship's' part 10 compIv
With these commands viii place his
under the painful necessity OF making
a pepper box of his hat and a total
wreck Of the aforesaid umbrella
He listened to us IN silence and
bowed coldly. remarking I'm most az.
gravating tone:
Aw-thank you wilI-aw-c1n.
slider your proposition
Our report was received by the bows
with little enthusiasm. Recount tHs
stcrv as we might we could not com.
pletely hide the fact that His Lord
ship had fairly routed us.
Wen, a cowboys life isn't an fun
and horse play" continued the colonel
changing his position silently and puf-
mig away steadily al his cigar. some
weeks after this affair. just before The
annual drive Terry. Bill McGregEr
and Were put on the range alone with
a big herd Of cattle. I shan't f5rr.
the occasion. for IL came pretty near
being the last time I ever herded ca-
tie.
The beeves were quite wild and &
took mighty little to scare them. About
the middle Of the forenoon something
started EN-, and they started of on
the pretliest kind of stampede I
was some distance beyond them. and
the only card ! had TO play was 90
run my pony right down their from.
and try to head them Of
As I put spurs TO my horse T say
that there were two other horsemen 30
their traCk-ChumIey. dressed as usual
and with the great white silk umbrella
raised to defend his head from the rays
Of the SUM- which was shining directly
down upon the plain. and his satellite
the relocated groom.
At that instant my pony played me
a trick which ne had never done be-
fore He stumbled and threw me d.
rectly in the path Of the charging ami
mails.
Run. you fool I yelled forgetting
my own danger, as I saw him stand
there looking for his mount. run or
you'll be trampled to death"
He coolly picked up HIS umbrella
and did run-but toward me. not from
the beeves. The herd was almost upon
me when he arrived. and we pumped
down on one knee in the alkal dust
and commenced opening and shutting
that umbrella with rapidity that Was
wonderful.
An instant before I would have been
Nilling to swear that nothing under
HEAVIER would have broken that line Of
charging cssttle; but they did break
with loud bellows of terror. and fed 90
right and left leaving us there UNI
touched the huttering UmbreL.a Prov
ing a safeguard for as both.
They passed us like the wind. ana
then Chumley rose to his feet brushing
his trousers.
You see that my umbrella Is-ah-
good for something. sir he remarked,
cOolly. and walked of 90 where DIS
frightened groom sat on his own h7-sa.
holding his masters Steed which le
had captured after a mad race i1 me
opposite direction to that taken by l5
cattle.
bill and Terry came back and r.ch--
me up. and I was laid up ar the ralsA
for a fortnight with my ankle
"EverybOdy's opinion o.. F.s Lor1s2
Immediately rose, especially my OWL
but we couldn't get near enough 90 ll-
fellow 90 thank him. Ha was as cola
and stiff as ever.
But I tell you what 10 is, continue
the colonel. tossing the remains NJ h.s
cigar into the CRATE. ct ceased rom
that time forth TO trouble myself a2o--
the eccentricities Of people ] met I'D
fact. I don't consider 80 any OIL Ht
business how many peculiarirros pa.
may have, for / have discovered l-e-
their possession doesn't ue.essaI.-
make a man either a fool "r milk
SOP"