The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-04-21
He Purchased a Cow Pony
Thought II Would Make a Zine
Saddle iiorse-And What Happened.

Washington Star: The large person
Win the ciamoring Mnistcoat glanced
over the top of his paper as the Wash
iugton-bound car whirled down the
btretuh in front of the Chevy Chase
club. and grinncd chccrfully AT the
,encIy
Seeing that stable over there re
minds me-" lie remarked to The quiet
looking ma in the next seat. You
don't happen To know anybody who
wants to buy IA nice saddle horse. do
you. l know where there's one for
sa's, and mighty cheap at that. Guess
Ii couple of ten spots would come
mighty near getting him, and for four
OF them you could lead him right off
the premises. halter and all"
The quiet-Iooking citizen allowed he
didn't know OF any one with designs
on am equine. and the man with the
noisy vest folded up his morning pa
per, rolled his unlighted cigar into one
corner of his mouth and grinned off
into the ambient some more.
Reason j asked you" he remarked
after u pause. lis that the nag in ques-
linn is at present boarding with IL
friend of mine. He's had him in his
stable for as much az three lays now,
hut he cant find the time to ride him.
Don't think he ever will. either. And
as he hates to see a fine and daisy sad
die horse standing in Il stable eating
lis head Off, and getting no exercise,
the bargain counters ready. Good bar
gain fol. somebody"
Why did he buy the horse if he
hasn't time to ride him." Inquired the
sedate passenger with a show of in
lereSt.
Here Was His Chance.
Well" said the joyously-clad COM
muter, 'as long as you don't appear to
have the saddle-horse bug nor look k
IA prospective customer, I'll tell you.
This friend Of ~mine-guesS you'll see
him of mornings in the future. for he's
Just recently annexed a little place out
Wentworth Nay-haS been wanting n
saddle nag for n year or two of harvest
moons. Thia place he's just caught up
with has got "a dinky little stable on it
with just about enough room in it for
= solitary equine and the necessary rid
ing %trappings, and he hated to see it
stand empty. Several times he drifted
over into Old Dominion on a still hunt,
hut he couldn't pick up anything that
looked good to him for less than a
ouple of yellow centuries, and the
long green wasn't as numerous with
him as all that. But when he saw in
the paper that Captain Seth Bullock
and his band of half a hundred real
western COW gentlemen We're coming to
Washington and We're going TO auc-
ton off their bronchos before they left
for the wild and woolly again, he just
fairly Went up in the air.
That's just what j want he said
10 me one morning at the office. i can
riek up one of those COW ponies for lit
tie or nothing, and they make the best
saddle propositions ON the face of the
earth. Just watch me get next
A Good Investment.
Well, sir, when those fifty untamed
members of the roundup set drifted
Into town my little friend was ohnnie
on the spo before they could get a
wash-up. All that afternoon he hung
around the hotel with a bunch of them.
listening to some of the hair-raisingest
flights of fancy ever met with outside
of a pink back. and when he drifted
home he figured up that The evening,
counting drinks and cigars and things,
had touched him to the tune of eleven
nifty in United States currency. But as
he told me ut the shop next day, I'm
going TO pick up n bronc mighty cheap,
Snd ! count this trine over a ten spot Il
mighty good investment
SO the very next day-me going
along for company-we went down to
the stable where the fifty broncs We're
quartered, and with the assistance of
several of his picturesque friends of
the night before. inspected the stock.
The ponies were standing in their stalls
and after their min days gruelling trip
ON a cattle car. just about able to stay
on their feet, and that was all. There
wasn't one OF them that had as much
spirit or animation as the motive power
of an ash cart, and it almost took a
steaIn winch 10 move one of them out of
ms place for inspection purposes.
They seem to have mighty little life
or animation for saddle horses remark
cd my friend to one of the punlchers,
WHO Went by the highly western title
IF Sholt-Grass Charlie.
Are Never Frivolous.
"Short-Grass looked at my chubby
friend for u minute and winked solemn
~. Don't you try one of you four
card bluffs around here he answered
rlayfully. Tn sure confident that when
you get that there eye of yours ON IA
cowhorse, you've got him sized to q
s.ound. And you aln't got nothing TO
learn about his disposition either. If
= didn't feel thai way about ii, Ia go
ahead and explain that a real cowhorse
amt never frivolous. They got their
work TO do and they does il. OF course,
# you want one of them fo~olish-looking
iiags that l see around here. that steps
high and shorts frequent, you amt
some TO the right place. But il you
want a sure enough SADDLE horse that
cam carry you forty miles at a gallop
and h get sore because vol don't
give him enough exercise 10 make him
feel good, then this is you meat, and
no mistake
MY friend continued the noisily-
clothed person, shaking his head sor-
foWfully. admitted that he was right
familiar with the habits of COW horses
in fact had been brought up with 'em.
and then Short Grass Charlie went
back TO a stall and came out again
leading a hong haired. short coupled,
big headed nina with a mild eye. and
dropping ears. This here cayuse.' said
Charlie impressively, is a sure enough
COW horse. They don't come any better.
You can bring that horse from a gallop
10 a dead stop on the breadth of a
him spittoon, and you can turn him
around four times on q place the size
of your nat. And as for his disposition
how l ask you fairly gentlemen. did
you ever see a milder eye, Il more con-
tent and peaceful eye? Why If you've
got any children you can pile 'ern all
on that horse and go away and leave
en-. And I'll tell you pardner, that
that COW horse never gets tired. He'll
carry you just as long as you can stay
ON him.'
The Sale Contaminated.
Then Mr.. Short Grass threw a sad
die on the horse and Shove us that all
he said was true, or pretty near it.
My friend with the saddle horse bug