The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-16

out a good horse. This time I had my i best one, a big bay of Kentucky blood. I call him Lee, and I tell you he is a horse! They were to have a rough riders parade, but found the boys all 1 sore at the leader, all riding through i the streets like mad, painting the town l in true cow puncher style. The leader was ready to give in, and when he caught sight of my big Lee enrolling | up the street, nothing would satlsfy him but that I should impersonate Roosevelt. He wrapped long banner | around me, and the color put Lee on | his mettle. I know my horse, and | touch of the spur set him gambolling and whrling. He can turn-on the top l of a bushel measure. The boys began l to cheer, and soon they were all crowd l ed around on their horses. Then said: Boys, you see what's up. They say I've got to run this here parade. I expect if only had my wolf club might beat you all over the head and get you into line. Now what do you | say?'
 Go ahead, Pete! they yells, You say go ahead says I. Go ahead says they again. Well, then, darn yer ! pict'ers, you fellers with grays hike up that street a block an git together. You black ones, to'ther way, an don't ye dare come back till I tell vel
 Well we had the finest parade last Fourth we ever had. The boys all like me, and they'll do what I say. I ex- pect it's because I'm always up and a. comin Darned If they didn't all line up and holler. Three howls fer Pete, tn biggest wolf hunter in tn United States The fellers know how to do the coyote calls, tell you, and old Al- liance got a waSin' up, that's sure. I felt pretty good when rode home next day.
 "That brings me around to the way I happened to break up the den up on Dry Spotted Tail That's the toughest spot of land this side of the foothills. There are hundreds of rocky gulches and ridges and not drop of water ia l any of them I'd thought for long 1 spell that there was big den in some of them gulches, for as sure as any of Ashbrook's cattle got to ranging that way he'd lose calf or two every night.
 "Well, when I come back from that celebration along toward night next day saw Ashbrook waiting at my gate long before I got there. He looked pretty dark and thundery, and knew something was up.
 Say" said he how many dogs you got?'
 Two greyhounds, two stagbuHds, said I,
 "I know you hain't been out after a. wolf for a long time, said Ashbrook, but there's no use talking, you've got to get out now. What do you think, l turned my big stallion out so that he could get something to eat and drink while we were at the celebration yesterday, and I come home tonight and find him with both his hams eat out, dragging himself around, almost dead, on his forelegs. Pete, you've got to run them varmnts down. You can't poison them. You can't do nothing. I'll give you $25 apiece for all you kill
 Where are your cattle? l asked him, and he said they were fifteen miles up the range toward Dry Spotted Tall. All right Ashbrook. You go over to Jake's and to Williams and then up to Marsland to the stable there and get all the dogs you can borrow. Thatll take you all night and more. I'm going to ride around your bunch of cattle 80 as to get there early in the morning
 T rode twenty-five miles that night, and just at the very first streak ot red in the east came upon the herd. l noticed that every critter was standing and moving with a shaky, restless mo- ton, A mile away could hear their low, mournflil believing I worked around to the lee side, and kept edging in closer, and the light was getting brighter all the time. Just as the sun shot up over the valley saw the long gaunt, shaggy mother wolf slipping like shadow along dry watercourse.
 Jerusalem! I turned Lee loose, and tell you when I do nobody gets ahead of me. My four dogs knew I'd sighted game for they'd run ahead liyke mad and stand D on their hind legs to look. here hey'd jump into the air and whine softly. I'd forbidden them to bay. The wolf was carrying the hind quarters of calf and did not sight me until I was within a thousand yards When she did she dropped the meal she had in- tended for her whelps and flew for her life. She gained nearly half mile In the first burst of her speed, but knew the wolves. saw her swerve. Away to the other side of the valley I saw a blue gulch. There you go, you devil. said I, and pulled across the angle Then the Kentuckyan began to come out. Mats of buffalo grass ran to- gether like a smooth carpet under my feet and the sprase July blossoms swept by like stars. Dry aroyos did not check him. He jumped over prairie dog holes careful and clean and he gained. We were almost near enough for the dogs to sight her when the wolf dropped behind a little ridge and we ran almost neck to the mouth of the gulch She beat us two hundred yards and the dogs had not seen her.
 q did not look for the end 80 soon but just around the first bend I saw one last awkward puppy flying tc cove,. Down into the mouth of a hid den den he plunged, and I knew the mother was there with her frightened l young. I dismounted. and three of i111