The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-07-31
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h0Atc4HA IaBpcu anu secuted
man n boy. for forty years and been
o~bservant o. the queer doin's of diner
emit kind o. animals, but I never see
nothin' so unsarten as wimmin. There
amt no Teller can tell jist what a wo
mans g0in' to do ANY other machines
built up on certain principles and as
dong as keptsin repair will grind thiRgs
out the same way. Wimmen won't dc
It They grind irregular.
One evenin' forty year ago when
was huntin' antelope in the Rockies
was camped in a pas along which
wagon trains was comm on their way
to Californy. l see a single wagon
iumberin' up the road. and when ii
come nigh l noticed a woman was
drivin'. There was three men Will
her. and 1t turned out that they was
all workIn' fer her. They camped will.
us. and 1t wasn't long before we found
thai Il woman was u wilder who hae
got a lot O. money from her husband;
and was goin' or some sort Of a bust
ness deal In San Francisco. She was
a good ookin' pusson. some'ers about
thirty. ami it was Easy to see that IL.
the men was tryin' to git into her ia
vor-that is. w IN en- was. T'othei
one. u Teller named Sheath, was q
measly sort o. chap that didn't. seem
to care much about her. But | put
hat down to b fac hat he hadn't
got no chance. The Teller that | reck
n e she'd take, if h took any OF
elm, was Nettleton. He was about
thirty-hve and u thorough man. hand
some as a pictur' and brave as a lion
The third man, Jimmie Saunders, was
too young Tor her. bein' only about
twenty-five ear old.
We all camped together that night
and liz nex morni went over the
divide together, j%ourneyin' in the same
crowd fer a matter of two weeks.
There WASH t nothin' to AXE me with
'em except hat the wilder, who seem
ed to have a faculty fer ropin' men in
to her affections, lassoed me. That
made three of us all. elbOwin' one an
other fer h same woman. Nettleton
Saunders and me. LeastaWays SauTs-
ders and me was elbowin', fer Nettles
ton was a proud sort of a man and
wouldn't put in a claim. H~owsolnever.
IN hoh "ho aACaIu VI III
same Nettleton. He was such a fine
lookin'. manly chap. and, though he
wouldn't stoop to palaver over 10 wo-
man, ne was considerable polite to the
wilder, and of all her hands was the
most use. But sometimes I thought
Saunders would light in ahead of the
hull lot of us. He was a lively little
chap. and the only rule I've ever been
ohI0 - .-0Ir - To- %I-% -rl.4,
they git along in years they mostly
reaches down fer men below 'em.
Well, one eyenin' when we was at
supper Nettleton, who KEEP an eye out
fer safety. saw somepin black on the
horizon 'twixt him and the settin' sun
and knew it was Injuns. You bet we
wasn't long in maxim q corral, with
the wagon fer one side, a log fer an
other and THROWN up dirt fer h rest
If 1t. We was. rushin' roun' fer things.
not mindin' what each other was dom
and didn't notice till we'd got the stock
into the corral and was. all ready fer
the redskins that Sheath was missin'.
The Unstable coward. not relishin' a
siege. had left us to hold the Injuns
willie he vamoosed. The worst of 1t
vas that he took one of the bosses.
O0S1kef 1GcTGQ tDdl WOu1dII lash
aim with her tongue. She was SO mad
that h forgot the Injuns.
The fight amt got nothin' to do with
the story. Nettleton took command
and handled us SO well that we killed
most O. the Injuns and drove off the
rest. see that Nettleton had got the
better of me with the wilder, and If /
didn't do somepin to balance up I'd be
left clean out. So as soon as we'd got
rid o. the trouble l mounted the best
boss IN the. team and lit out fer Sheath.
/ caught him ten mile away and
brought him back.
When / rode inter camp with him /
vas disappointed to obsarve that the
widder's wrath was cooled. Instead
y beratin' him, as I supposed she
would. she didn't take no notice of
1 axed her what punishment b
thought was best fer him. and b said
that h didn't think he was worth
p~unishin'. Consequence is he didn't
git no punishment onless fac that
none of us men would speak to him
was SIGH.
(. Now. the onsartainty o. wimmen that
I'm tryin' to show up by this story is
this: As soon as we men showed the
cold shoulder to sheath the wilder be-
gun to treat him respectable. and it
wasn't long before 1t raj plain that
she was takin' his part agin US. We;
put 1T down to a natural propensity o.
wimnin to sympathize and excuse any
body in trouble, maxim 'em on that ac-
count entirely omitted fer Jurymen
So we didn't pertest or anything like
list shown our own contemp'