Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-04-21
He Purchased a Cow Pony
Thought 1t Would Make a Fine
Saddle ticrse--And What Happened.

Washington Star: The large person
with the clamoring waistcoat glanced
over the top of his p as the Wash
ington-bound car whirled down the
stretch in front of the Chevy Chase
club, and grinned cheerfully at the
scenery.
Seeing that stable over there re-
minds me- he remarked TO the quiet
looking man I'm the next seat. you
don't happen to know anybody VINO
wants TO buy a nice saddle morse, 90
you? l know where there's n for
safe, aud mighty cheap at that. Guess
a couple of ten spots would come
mighty near getting him, and for -four
of them you could lead him rlght OF
the premises, halter and all.
The quiet-looking citizen allowed he
didn't know OF any n with designs
on an 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 moe.
Reason L asked YOU ite remarked
after q pause, lis that the nag In aues-
ton is at present boarding With o
friend of mine. He's had him in his
stable for as much as three days now,
but he cant find the time 20 ride him.
Don't think he ever will, either. And
as AlG tlStlCS W sec a. III 1lia obA7S -"
die horse standing In "a stable eating
his head off, and getting no exercise,
the bargain counters ready. Good bar
gain for somebody"
WHY did he buy the horse IL he
hasn't time to ride him. inquired the
sedate passenger with a show of In
terest.
Here Was His Chance.
Well said the ioyously-elad CONF
muter, las long as you don't appear to
have the saddle-horse bug nor look like
a prospective customer, I'll tell you.
This friend of m~ine-guess you'll see
him Of mornings in the future, for he's
Just recently annexed "A little place out
Kenilworth way-has been wanting a
saddle nag for n yea or two OF harvest
moons. This place he's just caught up
with has got a dinky little stable on II
with just about enough room In IL for
a solitary equine and the necessary rid
ing trappings, and he hated TO see IL
stand empty. Several times he drifted
over into Old Dominion on a still hunt,
but he couldn't pick up anything thai
looked good to him for less than n
couple of yellow centuries, n 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
NGclGlt wv Y oatAhhh ~
Washington and were 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 / want he said
10 me one morning at the office. / can
pick up one of those COW ponies for lit
tie oil 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 own my little friend was Johnnie
on the spot before they could get a
wash-up. All that afternoon he hung
around the hotel with a unc 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 i'm United States currency. But as
he told me at the shop next day, I'm
going TO pick VI a bronc mighty cheap.
and / count this trifie over a ten spot a
mighty good investment.
so the very next day-me going
along for company-we went down to
the stable where the fifty broncs were
quartered. and with the assistance of
several o. his picturesque IflenuS OF
the night before, inspected the stock.
The ponies were standing In their stalls
and after their nine days gruelling trip
ON a cattle car, just about able 10 stay
on their feet, and that vas all. There
wasn't one OF them that had as much
spirit or animation as the motive power
of an ash cart, and il almost tool a
steam winch TO move n of them out OF
his place for inspection purposes.
They seem to ave mighty little life
or animation for saddle horses, remark
ed my friend To one OF the ~punchers.
| WHO went by the highly western title
of Short Grass Charlie. -