The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-06-21
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u. vls~-'4 ankets.a laid
thelr Winchesters Desrue them. and
stretched themselves at their fire.
They had been talking together and
Laughing. and were evidently pretty
well contented with their catch; thew
seemed TO feel pretty sure about get.
ting or with the herd. Martin watched
the Fellows like q lynx, and when they
We're sound asleep and Kosky was out
or sight looking after the herd he
crawled into their camp and got both
'helr guns. Then he crawled away
again.
1he guns he carried up the creek
ana strapped to his pony's saddle. Then
ne came back just as sIyly to look after
Dig hosky and the ponies SO far
everything had gone to his liking. and
now to get rid of that rascally herdcr
hosky Kept the horses in close
punch. riding about them with his gun
across his saddle. and Martins pros
pect for running off any of them looked
pretty poor. Whatever he did must be
done before the fellows in camp were
awakened, for the discovery of the loss
OF their guns would alarm them at
once
The ponies. however themselves
settled Martins plan of action. THEY'D
Deen watered at Lame Mans Creek
soine miles back, and toward midnight
they began to want drink. and to drop
into the bed or the Chapeau to look for
II. The creek was dry. with only n
povi here and there In dips of the chan.
neS' and kosky. to quiet their uneasI-
ness, worked the bunch along up to one
OK the sunken ponds some two hundred
yards above his rustlers' camp.
Martin followed closely. keepInp
out of sight in the dry channel Very
soon he heard the ponies slipping down
steep bank into the pond: and peer
ing out of the cover of tall grass. he
saw kosky ride his own horse down to
drink. Martin could just see the
horses rump as the animal stood. half
on end, and the mans head and sbop,.
ders' as he sat braced in his saddle.
There was the boys opportunity,
aud he took 1t as quick as lightning.
lie crawled slyly out of the grass and
got directly behind the rustler. Then
using the stock of his carbine as y hat. |
tering-ram, he made running iumn |
striking the man sQuarely between the
shoulders.
Aosky was hurled as if kicked Inv y |
mule. He struck the water with n !
splash and sank like sack of sand |
Martin landed behind his saddle and
the rustler'S horse slid into the water
where he fioundered over his breath.
less master.
Inc ponies Were startled into snort.
ing little, but they were too thirsty
TO run, and Martin kept his seat and
rode out upon the bank. He tied his
captured horse to some willows and
then waded in and dragged Kosky out
into the dry bed of the creek. There
ne turned the man upon his face and
slapped his back until he began 70
snow signs of life; then he tied him
hands and feet. and left him there to
come to and reflect upon the uncertain.
ties of rustling.
The ponies We're now crozinr. ouiot
~ and Martin moved them upstream
TO where his horse was tied. and then
drove them rapidly home.
That experience settled the accounts
OF Big kosky in these parts. | reckon
the whole business was rather mys.
terious to him. He never came on the
reservation again. to our knowledge
and soon after abandoned his claim