Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-01-01

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stantly keeps the air stirring violently
around him. That must be why it's
so windy in Casper. Going out on the
street was like turning the corner Of
the Masonic Temple at home here.
81 had prepared myself to do with
out a bath until my return to eiviliza-
ton. What was my establishment to
find a modern bathroom, with all at
taehments, in my uncle's house-run-
ming hot and cold waterl He also
had a telephone in the house. You can
have your choice of gas or electric
lights, and Uncle Charlie is even talk
ing Of installing a hot water heating
plant in his house this fall. How is
that for a frontier town in the wilds
of Wyoming?
"There isn't poor man in Casper.
/ wouldn't mind living there. It's the
same altitude as Denver. and sick
person is a curiosity. The name Of
the masculine element is Charlie
This includes horses, dogs and China
men. Occasionally you find a Bill.
Anyone with more high-fown front
name is looked upon with suspicion.
j didn't tell them that mine is Alger-
non.
1.-The native masculine costume Of
Casper consists of 81 pair of boots,
a $3.50 hat and 75-cent pair Of over
alls-'bout SIPS for shirts, / guess.
i didn't see many cowboys. They call
'em sheepmen now. Everything's
sheep out there. Casper isn't stock
yards, but once in awhile a bunch of
cattle went by the house, and once
/ got mixed up with a bunch of sheep
If Mary's little lamb smelled anything
like it ] don't wonder that the teacher
objected
"The native Casperite is not mod
est man. His voice is large, and when
he talks you don't have TO ask him
twice what he said. if you happen to
be standing a mile across the prairie
away from him. He is partial 10 ex-
hggerating the truth. His children
are the finest, his wife the best cook,
his ranch the biggest, his crops the
largest, his sheep the most numerous,
his state the best, his politics the only
kind in the whole union. He wouldn't
change shoes with Pierpont Morgan
not on your life! He's honest and big
hearted and open-handed. ! like the
native Casperite.
''The woman of Wyoming votes.
She wears divided skirts when she
rides horseback, so you may know that
she rides in the fashionable altitude |
She doesn't powder her face and frizz
her hair. She's big ard buxom and
healthy, and when she laughs it isn't |
windy giggle. She can hit rabbit |
on the jump with As, and she knows
how TO fry sage chicken and bake
rabbit pie. She rears numerous and |
husky progeny, and to express it mild
ly, she rules the roost.'
Fruit is scarce out there, and ba-
nanas are so cents dozen, so they buy |
'em by the bunch. The Casper taste
runs to bananas-bananas for break
fast, bananas for dinner and bananas
for supper. And say-talk about
feed! Maybe you don't think they
feed a fellow down therel"
II don't see that you're any fatter,"
the Managing Editor.
"The bronco did that" mournfully
returned the Tenderfoot. ~ lost 20
pounds in perspiration, epidermis and
fatty tissue. And say-I amt Just a
tenderfoot any more-I'm tender all
over now"
well, guess you'd better go to
work and get tough again. You can
give us a story of your western ex-
periences as a starter. Go on now,
I'm busy" commanded the Managing
Editor.
GAN right" grunted the Tenderfoot,
as he laboriously prepared to lift him
self into standing position. You'll
excuse my moving gradually for day
or two, however. / ought to have an
other week to rest up in"
Guess you don't want to go west
again in hurry, hey?"
Don't II" said the Tenderfoot.
"Next time / go I'll stay there, too.
I'll buy half a dozen sheep and go up
in the lovely cool mountains and roost |
with my gentle baabaas. and get rich
in a couple of years. Say, you can buy
land for 30 cents an acre out in Wyo-
ming-plenty of water on it, tool"
"Where?" demanded the Managing
Editor.
"On the river bottom" sereneIv re-
piled the Tenderfoot. as he limped |
hastily out Of the Managing Editors |
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