, 1906-05-07
THE NUPTlALs OF
nANGERNIIc DANIS

THE NUPTIALS OF
DANGEROUS DAVIS.
On the morning on which Adam Fore
paugh entered the city of Laramie, and
with a grand array of hump-backed
dromedaires, ~club-footed elephants, and
an uncalled-for amount of pride, and
pomp, and circumstance, captured the
town, Dangerous Davis, clad in buck
skin and glass beads, and ornamented
with one of Smith & Wesson's brass
mounted, s~elf-coCking, Black Hills bus
ties, entered his honor's office, and
walking up to the counter where the
Judge deals out justice to the vagabond
tenderfoot, and bankrupt nonresident,
as well as to the law-defying Laramie
lite, called for $500 worth of matri-
mony.
On his arm leaned the fair form of
the one who had ensnared the heart
of the frontiersman, and who had evil
IDENTIFY gobbled up the manly affections
of Dangerous Davis. She was resplen-
dent in new clothes, and a pair of In
dian ~moccasins, and when she glided
| UP W thS NShICl VI llC IoOll, IuC Ndoud
observer might have been deceived in
to the belief that she was moving
through the radiant atmosphere like
an S11.00 Peri, if it had not been for
the gentle patter of her moccasin as it
fell upon the floor with the sylph-like
football of the prize elephant as he
moves around the ring to the dreamy
strains of "Old Zip Coon" A large
filed ring gleamed and sparkled OF
her brown hand, and We'd in splendor
with a large seed-wart on her front
finger. The ends of her nails were
draped in the deepest mourning, and as
she leaned her head against the off
shoulder of Dangerous Davis, the ranch
butter from her tawny locks made a
deep and lasting impression on his
buchskin bosom.
At this suspicious moment his honor
entered the room, with a g~reen-covered
German almanac for 1852 and a copy
of Robinson Crusoe under his arm, n
as he saw the young thing who was
about to unite herself to the bold, bad
man from Bitter creek, he burst into
tears, while Judge Blair, who had adj
journed the district court in order to
witness the ceremony, sat down behind
the stove and sobbed like a child. At
this moment William Crout, who has
been married under all kinds of cir
cumstances and in eleven different
languages, entered the room and in
spired confidence in the weeping
throng.
Dangerous Davis changed his quid
of tobacco from one side of his amber
mouth to the other, spat OF his hands,
and asked to the judges matrimonial
price list. The Judge showed him some
different styles, out of which Danger
Gus Davis selected the kind he wanted.
By this time about one hundred and
thirteen men, who had been waiting
around the our room during the past
week in order to be drawn as jurymen,
had crowded in to witness the cere-
mony.
After all the preliminaries had been
gone through with, the judge COM
menced reading the marriage service
out of a copy of the Clowns Comic
Song Book. When he asked if anyone
present had any objections to the pro-
c~eedings, Price, from force of habit.
rose and said, Il object" but Danger
Gus Davis caressed his brass-mounted
Grecian bend, and Price withdrew the
objection, Everybody admitted Prices
good judgment, under the circum-
stances, in withdrawing the objection.
After the usual ceremony, the Judge
put the bridegroom through some lit
tie limitations, ~instructing him in the
grand hailing signs, CUPS, passwords
n signals swore him to support the
constitution of the United States, pro-
nounced the benedictiou on the newly
welded pair, and the ceremony closed
with an extemporaneous speech by
Judge Brown and profound silence and
thoughtfu.ness on the part of Brockwav
as he reflected upon the dangers which
constantly surround us.
Dangerous Davis mounted his bron- |
cho, and tying his new wife on behind
him on the saddle with an old shawl
strap plunged his spurs into the pant
ing sides of his c~alico-colored steed.
n IN a few minutes was flying over
the green plains, while the mountain
breeze caught up the oleaginous SAT-
fron-hue tresses of the bride and in
Wild glee mingled them with the bron-
sorrel tail, and tossed them to
four winds Of heaven.-Bnl Nye.
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