The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-12-19


let the rope fly and took my turns
around the horn-there was no tyin'
IA mine, you bet! Old Pop-Eye went
fy him IKE shot. If my rope had
been a cable / guess it wodld "a broke
--he hit the end Of it at about mile
asninuts gait. 1t snapped Ike a piece
or irvine, and one end whacked him
across the rump like the fash Of
four-horse whip.
sThe things he did to me was a cau-
ton. I'd Stacked the reins when !
took my turns, and he'd got his head.
The hoochee coochee and the Boneless
Mans performance wasn't a circum-
stance TO the motions he went through.
"say,I was beat across the back with
tie cantlel The horn few up and
poked me in the solar plexus, hard! l
was slammed around like a salt shak-
er that won't work. Finally my feet
come out Of the stirrups and sailed
through the atmosphere much the
same graceful way sack Of potatoes
does when you chuck it ont Of the
mess wagon Then the earth rose up
sudden and put me out ce business.
when / came to ! was lynn in the
shade of some cottonwoods, somethin'
wet droppin' on my face. Twas kind
O. cazed at first, and then / remem-
.beFed the bear. looked up and Tony
was standln' over me, iisglin' water
out OF d tin can on 10 my head. There
was a girl standin there, too, lookin'
at me sort Of anxious. l couldn't make
It out at all.
@'Where in blazas did che come
from" thinks I.
serhah3 says to Tony who'd quit
sloppln' water on me when 1 opened
my eyes: We'll, what about it?
How'd you make out with that bearT
'Tha girl giggled then, and Tony's
face looked like you'd slapped it-it
got so red.
II sat up then and looked around. l
thought | was dieamin'. I3ny's horse
and a couple Of other cayuses-one Of
'em with q side-saddle on-was stand
in near. A little piece away-not
mo.e than fifty feet-was our bear,
sittin' contentediy on his haunches
watchin' us; little Eid about ten
years old sprawled on the grass hold
in the end OF Tony's rope. which was
still around Brownies neck.
II began to ask questions then, and
there was explanations till further or
ders. The girls folks had settled on
the lower end Of Sun Dance that
spslae. One day there comes a Dago
down the river with a dancln' bear
and hand organ on a scow. He was
headed for North Dakota, but his
plans Gnd his scow was both upset
when he struck Sun-Dance.
"c'he rapids was too much for him.
He and his bear got out, with the as
sistancc OF the girls father and broth
crs, and the scow and the hand organ
stayed in. Havin' lost part of his
stock N trade he sold tho bear to the
girls father and went overland; he
didn't banker to keep his hand organ
company ~
THE bear was a regular pet-just
like 4 big Oyergrown dog. They used
to let him run around most Of the time.
ana once IN a while he'd ramble off
up the fat huntin roots ana berries.
1t was him we'd been havln' such a
rip-roarim time with: and that's him
SOU see now, sashayln' around at the
end OF the house.
"Tony rounded up old Pop while
was recoyerln, and then we hit the
naii for camp. We told the Professor
little tale Of woe about not findin'
any horses. and how my horse got
mean and fell with me--to account for
me bein' skinned up so. 1t went all
right at the time but that little broth
er Of hers-measly little cuss!-gave
the whole deal away to one of the boys
who strayed down that way few
days after. Maybe you think them
horse ilnglers didn't guy us The
roastin' we got was somethin' to be re-
membered
"Tony took his horses home when
roundup was over, and then come
back and went to work for the Pro
fessor He like to rode a good string
OF horses TO death runnin' down to
sun-Dance; but he got the girl, all
right, all right. She says she marrlcl
him out OF pure sympathy; he felt so
blamed mean about ropin' a bear-a
bear that was called Cupid at thatw
"It seems to me- 1 ventured to sug-
gest, that you deserved a little sym
pathy yourself' 4 &s
Il did" Jack assented, mournfully,
"but Tony-the son-of-a-gun!-he beat
me to it."-San Francisco Argonaut.