, 1905-01-09

back over the trail his wagon ratified
and Bradley and | again betook our
selves to the blankets.
1t was the gray of the morning when
the clatter of hoofs end the rattle OF
the wagon along the road on the bluffs
announced the return Of the Kid. and
as he made the turn and ran his horses
down that twisting. squirming, uncer.
tain road it was in evidence that he'd
the passenger on board he'd left be-
hind. The o fellow was on his
knees in the body of the wagon hold,
ing for dear life to the back of the
seat, during that wild ride down the
bluffs into the draw, and his eyes We're
bullying out so they might be knocked
off with a stick, to use a common, il
~hyperbolic expression: but the Kid
brought his horses around at the usual
place just as if nothing out of the
usual had taken place. saying as he
jumped from the seat:
Here's your passenger Bradley"
Never mind the colloquy. 1t was then
broad day light. and the two drivers
assisted in the getting and Harvesting
up of the horses nj prepared for the
delayed double-bacE trip. Bradley had
a team which surely would not stand
without hitching. He loaded the pas
senger-sheepherder together with his
belonging, into the wagon. The be.
twofeetin diameter and a shepherd pup
which the herder held in his arms the
mother to trail the wagon. Bradley took
charge of his gun, first seeing that it
"asn't loaded. The passenger prefer.
red to sit on hsi bed.roll rather than
occupy that spring seat with the driver,
Everybody on board, including the shep-
herd PUP. The Kid passed the reins
to Bradley. and those ornery brutes
started off on a jump and never stop
ped until they reached the top of the
bluffs. But the passenger wasn't
along. There was a very funny mix
ture of sheepherder. shepherd dog and
bed-roll went IN over the tail board
of that wagon i%nstanter. The Kid and
| We're already hooked up to continue
my journey south, and | was with him
on the spring seat. and out of the
goodness o. his cussed little heart, he
offered to pick up the debris, including
a passenger with a disloCated shoulder
and take them up to the top of the hill,
where Bradley was waiting. And |
went with him, The transfer effect
ed. We turned round, and then that
ornery little cuss gave me a taste of
| had seen the sheepherder experience
and | was sitting on that spring seat.
swung around into the Dad in the
draw. barely missing edge of the bank
of a dry stream by a yard, and struck
a clump of sagebrush and then-the
balloon ascension, The Kid kindly
awaited until | came back. before he
really took up his return trip to Cody,
but | didn't locate myself on my return
in just exactly the same position as
that | left when | started the ascen-
sion. and | carried some sore spots
into Cody. The ~sheepherder didn't
have his checks with him when he ar
rived at Red Lodge, and sometime af-
ter that Bradley gave up mis- position
driver on that route and became a
gentleman of leizure, somewhat limit
ed in his choice of amusements, how
but the government paid the bills
and | think the Kid got away with the
shepherd dog for he followed us back
Cody.
Joe Hazen was q great big bodied,
big hearted typical westerner who had
drank of the cup of lite from the collar
to the heel, made thus the wiser. but
an inventory of the elements enter
ing into true manhood, none the worse.
They got him. but they" haven't fire.
~quented the courts very much since,
and probably never will.
They got Middaugh, too; but Muir
der will out"
FRANK H. CLARK.