Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-12-05

A A -N A uldu HIS uedu W It'll a deliberate slowness and regarded Pc ter with narrowing eyes: "If the sub- ject of cattle thieves and their punish ment is unpleasant to the gentleman from New York perhaps he will favor us with something more cheerful" It was the same man who had given the two definitions of the H L brand that morning at the roundup
 Delighted" said Peter, affecting not to notice the significance of the mans remark. Did you ever hear of the time that Tony Neville was burned with Snow?''
 The XXX man yawned long and au- d1bly. No one seemed especially inter ested in Tony Neville's having been burned with snow but Peter struck out manfnlly just in time to head off man who said that he had seen Jim Rodney or some one who looked like him fol lowing the trail herd.
 "Once on time when it paid to be cattleman," began Peter, "there was an outfit near Laramie that hailed from the United Kingdom, every mother'sl son of them-a fine, manly lot of fel- lows. but welded to calamity along of their cooks. These unhappy Britons had every species of i'll luck that could They were of every nationally y. age and sex, and they stole, drank. quar- reled, till the outfit deterMined to sweep the house clear of th4m and Go it's own cooking. Every r1an was to have a turn at it for week. There were as many different ,kinds of indi- sestion as there We're linen in the out fit. They would beg tb do night herd ing-anything to get them away from that ranch F'InallyIwhen their little dummies got so bah that their over- coats thickenod ol wore through, or whatever happenI to stomachs' over coats that are trAated unkindly. some one s maiden amnt sent him a tract saying that riJe was the salvation of the human r(ce. as witness the Chi nese, Whosfcver's turn it was to cook ,h,4e week determined to try the old ladE's prescription. Rice was procured ahout q 3eck, think, and the man who was jcooking. pro tem., put the ell tire quaftity on to boil in huge ham boiler over slow fire, as per the di rectlont of the maiden aunt. The rice seemeJ to he doing nicely when some one c4me in and said that a bunch of antelppe was oyer on the hills and therk was good chance to get a coll- ple.f Every man got his gun. all but th(Y Ycool. and he looked at the rice that hajln't done thing over the slow fire ip( way that would melt your heart. Just my luck that it should be ny week to pot wrestle when there's good Hunting right at ones front door" "'Oli. come on,' some one said. Didn't Kellett's aunt say the rice ought ito be cooked over slow fire: kellett, get your aunt's letter and read the directions for cooking that rice again.
 The cook didn't need second in- vitation. and they got into their sad dies, cook and all. and went for the antelope.
 Now, antelope are not like station ary waShtubS; they move about And when that particular outfit arrived at the spot where those antelope were last seen they had moved, but the boys found traces of them and continued on their trail. They went in the foothills and they searched for those antelope all day. They caught up with old man Halls outfit at dinner time and were invited to take d bite. Coming home by way of the Circle Star ranch Colonel Semmes asked them in to have a mint julep-the colonel was a SoUt Carolinian and he had just succeede, i'll raising some mint. They had soy eral-7l fear more than several-('rini before leaving for home. with never a trace of antelope nor q thought of tn, rice cooking over the slow fire. Ih, colonel remembered some hard eide, that he had. and topping of on t'A they set Out. The weather was nrott warm and on their way home they ex pcrienced some rcmorse over the hal cider. Now hard cider is an accul:N lative drink: it piles up interest !A debt or unpaid t"yps And by tls time those Englisimen had turned tis, little lane leading into their home cor. ral they saw a sight that made tur. sombreros rise. As have said be fore. it was hot. being somewhere il 1 the month of August Gentlemen. hardly expect you to believe me whcl I say it was showing on their house and not on another blessed thing in the landscape.
 "'The blamed thing about it was tina every man took the phenomenon to l.. his own private view of snakes, or their bibulous equivalent. manifested in another and more terrifying form
 "But when they got bit closer th' horror increased. Flying right out O their windows were perfect drifts Of snow, banks of it, gentlemen. and thc thermometer up past a hundred One of the men looked about him and no ticed the pallor on the faces of the | rest
 "'Do you notice anything strange, old chap? These cursed American drinks, l 1