The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-07-20
The Disgrace of Jack TetloW.
BY CLARENCE HoLCoMB.

This Conroy party comes into the
bunch grass country from Moo York, -
said the judge.
"Tenderfoot?"
Say, he's that green that when he
climbs down off the box of the stage
he looks up an down the street afore
he gets of. 'Fraid he's goin' to step
in front of trolley car.
"Suro he's green, but he's good stuff,
an next mornin' he's out lookin' fur
a JOB. The boss of the Wrench outfit
is in town, an Joe strikes him first.
Can you rider" asks the boss.
don't know says Joe, turnin'
red, an lookin at the ground.
'Um, says the boss. Can you
cook?
~ never have says Joe, lookin' UP
hopeful, but III try
You needn't mind says the boss,
plenty sarcastic.
Every place he tries it's the same,
an he's purity well discouraged when
final he gets to me. I'm runnin' a
bunch of control cattle on Stinkin' Wa
ter mountain that summer, an l gives
him job. Shure it looks like maxim
him present of them wages, but he's
such a decent sort chap l amt got
the heart to turn him away. l hears
about him every month in Tompson's
report.
First month he says: Put new man
to he!pin' the cook. Couldn't ride a
rockin horse, an if he ever runs across
muley cow, the chances are he'll take
a shot at it thinkin' it's a coyote
Second month: New man can ride
little. Falls off good deal, but gets
right back on. Gritty as a emery
wheel
Third month: 'Conroy's got all the
old cows comm in every evenin' to be
lassed. Kind a got to be a habit with
them. thought when you sent hin
out mere you must be losin' your mind
but | guess you knew wot you was
doin'. He's a fine chap, an a hard
worker.
1T amt long after this till the first
snow falls on the mountain, an the
cattle has to be got in on the home
ranch.
It's hard work this, fur strange
camps don't appeal to the cow-brute
none, So after it's all over l gives the
boys a week in town.
Thompson goes after his first an only
love-faro. All summer long he's beer
workin on a system, an final he gets
it down to such a fine point he can
lose. When he gets back on the ranch
he has his system left. He don't lose
that.
Barney Earle an Jed Clemmins, be-
lieves in gettin' something fur theil
money, an frequently after week:
carnival, they seems to have abou
everything, includin a high-class me
nage:ie, with a side line attraction o.
wild az untamable reptiles. That's The
way my vaqueros spend their time, bu
as | never had money enough to en-
| JOY them sports myself, hangs arount
the toardin' house principle, an Joe
keeps me company. The house wa!
run ut that time by a little widow b!
the meme of Cummin's.
Right off notices she takes a likin
to Joe. Mind you, don't mean sh'
| becomes enamored of him none, bu
he's such neat little chap it's strang,
If he amt big casino with the fem
| mines.
1T seems a fellow named Blacl
| Jack Persons was playin' all suits boil
ways from the middle tryin' to vii
| the widow, but she don't enthuse
| Final, when Joe arrives on the seen,
she passes him up like he's a whit,
chip, which makes him imagine Joe
alienatin them affections. Natural
this makes him plenty furious, an h,
figures it's only a matter of time, ii
retribution is bound to overtake tn
tenderfoot. And so things run alon'
until the night before we leaves flu
the ranch.
Hairy, Jed an Barney is all dowl
to the saloon, an before we turns in
Joe AN l lights our pipes an stroll
down town. AS we pass the salool
the boys is in l takes it into my heat
to drop in an try to get them to com
to bed an Joe follows.
I'VE amt no more than entered
when slab-sided kid called Goggl