The courier., 1903-02-28

H6uiCu "ouiu nave " Sldiio IOt OI tHdt
sart of thing himself acting as master of
ceremonies. Then they stuck the drum
mer up on another shelf and started out
in compact bunch to make the rounds.
Don't you lamb-ropers up yere in
Idaho never shoot up town none?' in
Quired the towhead from Chicago, as
they started out.
There was a note of reproach in his
tone like as If he considered Wyoming
better than Idaho when 1t came to get
ting action, that sort o. shamed the
boys and put them on their mettle
WELL said Lafe Murdock, we amt
shot 'er up none FIR bout two months.
and l reckon to-day's about the day
THE suggestion went with a whoop.
All the boys hoped their cayuses and
one was got out of old man Larkins'
barn for the newcomer.
They're talking about that day yet
out in Pocatello, those that were there
when it happened. If there was one
pane of glass left in the town when the
sun went down 1t was not reported. The
town was in a cloud of cayuse-kicked
dust all day, and nary a cowpuncher
thought of dismounting to take a drink.
They just rode in alongside the bars
and drank and then gave their cayuses
the rowelS and shot out again, bowling.
well, say, that pinky boy was all
sorts of a horseman. Going in face
foremost on his cayuse wasn't good
enough for him. He backed his horse
into every shack in town, and every time
he did the stunt the boys gave him a
yee-ow. I didn't use to bank much on
academy training with fox hunt finish.
But, Lordy, that fellow could ride
Along toward sundown he pretended to
be all out and the boys affecticnately
picked him up and packed him off to
bed in the best room of the Eldorado
that old man Larkins had set aside for
him.
".And I'm wantin' you all t. know
that this yere's a albright ombrey,' Jim
and I heard Lafe Murdock say as they
were stripping the towhead from Chi
cago for bed.
"They got him tucked in his little bed
all right and comfortable, and then
they went off to wind up the day drink
ing his health. Jim and me, we found
him sitting up In bed feeling of his head,
ten minutes after the boys who had put
him to bed had disappeared. He wasn't
out, or anything like it-that was all
shammed-and he hadn't slugged half
the booze he had pretended to drink
with the boys. He was grinning when
we came in.
"'Well?" he said, looking from one to
the other Of us.
"Jim walked over to the bed. pulled
out his roll, and counted out five 500
bills on the pink kids coverlet.
Neat work, son. said Jim, smiling.
I felt like sure-thing gambler when l
II hot hafo Of md Isv,o 1o1 20
know that I wasn't
Long about O'Clock next morning
most of the boys, Lafe Murdock includ-
ed, were standing around in front of
the Eldorado. waiting for their ombrey
And we were waiting for the pink kid
He came down about 9:30-our buck
board was in front, waiting to take him
and us out to the ranch.
WELL say-you'd oughter seen the
boys when the pink kid came down, at
tired in a natty blue suit, russet shoes
and a plaid fore-and-aft cap. He was
smiling most pleasant, but they saw
how it was. Lafe Murdock was the one
to relieve the tension. He strolled up
to us three, and said he to Jim and me,
grasping US together:
"'Boss, know where 1 stand, an tn
boys all knows where they stand, an we
amt a-buttin' in none, now or hereafter,
but with respect to your friend nodding
toward the pink kid from Chicago,
which We consider a albright ombrey,
even if he did fool us up hull lot-well,
we fgger 1t out that it's our buy and
we'd like t. have you join us
"We Joined them"
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Two women were conversing in the
room of an invalid, who was not as fast