Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-01-05
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SOLDERING OF THE PUP.

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The sure-enough kee-rect name OF
this boy was Egbert Stuyvesant Liv-
ingston Something-or Anyhow,
the fag-end of his signature belonged
to some New York family that was a
hull heap toppy," observed the sun
dried man from New Mexico. But all
of us working on the old S-Triangle-Z
called him Hary, or Hary Pup, or just
Pup, according to how much breath we
had to spare. On the day that he
strayed out to the 3-triangle-Z and
struck the boss-himseIf Harvard
alumnus-for work, and got it, the
foreman conveyed him over to the
bunk house and introduced him to us a
lot neat
"'You fellers,' says the foreman to
us, don't want t. be none rude or
] rough with this yere fragile piece O.
work, pushing the new hand to the
front, because, from tn way him an
tn boss was a-talkin' t'gether, | on
derstand he's been t Harvard. an they
tell me that them Harvard boys is
sure handled uncommon tender an
pampered a plenty
And from that minute on we only
knew the new hand as Harv, or Harv
Pup.
1.-THE humor of theforeman's introduc-
tory cracks consisted in the fact that
the new hand, although he hadn't been
shaving more than few years, stood
six foot four in his moccasins and had
a pair of shoulders on him, that forced
him to nudge his way through the
bunk house-door on the oblique plan.
II never saw a. new ranch hand that
looked better able to take care of him
self.
There wasn't much to teach him
except roping, branding, throwing and
the details Of the roundup, for he
knew how to sit cayuse like sixth
cavalryman.
"One evening, after the finish OF a
roundup, when the Pup had been on
the ranch for about eight months, the.
boss strolled ser to the bunk house..
where we were all stretched out, smok
ing, and dished out money, telling us
that we might as well streak to Bar
stow for a week, If we thought we
could behave The old man always
sort of grinned, when he got that in
about our behaving for he'd spent in
a bunk house himself for quite some
years before he acquired title to the
3-Triangle-Z.
1t was a thirty-mile jog to Barstow,
and we saddled up before sunrise by
the next morning SOS to get there by
noon and dodge the afternoon heat.
In less than two hours after we got
there Harv Pup was trying to jump
his cayuse over the Golden Gem honk-
atonk, which was about fourteen feet
high and fully as wide. That, of
course, was too much of jump for any
kind of a horse and the best that the
cayuse could do was to try, landing
with all Our hoofs against the wealth
erboards, and then scientifically drop
ping back on his feet again, with the
Pup hanging around his neck and
whooping like Moqui snake dancer
at an adder-eating fiesta.
"Then the Pup, who for a sure thing
had his horse educated up a. hull lot,
would get behind the cayuse and hold
up his watch--the watch had the Pups
Initials studded in diamonds on the
ease-and then make the cayuse kick
Mt it with his heels and see how near
he could come to converting it into
funk gold and chip gems.
well, these cayuse stunts palled on.
the Pup long before dusk, and so he
rode down to Lew Patterns red-eye
wickieup to play with Lewis bear
Lew had pet cinnamon bear that
stood about seven foot when he rared
up on his hind paws, and the Pup liked
to box and rassle with this bear. They
rassled and boxed for the drinks and
latter every fall or round the Pup and
the cinnamon ud stroll up to the bar,
arms linked, and have one-the Pup
taking straight fhooter Of the mes
quite fluid and the bear a water bucket
full of beer. 1t cost So to fill the bears
bucket full OF beer every time they
lglided up to the counter, but Harry and
the bear were always great pals on
these trips, and the Pup didn't know
anything about the meaning of money,
$3.50 !. 49, y $50 MS 'le
'ioou y A.
I'm such calm and soothing employ
ments the Pup spent all the rest Of the
DAY and all OF the night, SO that when
daylight peeked over the edge of the
Worid the next morning the Pup sure
was quite lew corned up. Nearly all
the rest OF the OUTFIT had grabbed out
three or TOUR hours siumber after whit
tnng on our cnange at the faro and
stun poker iayouts' 50 that when the
sun got afouno tnat morning all OF the
o-iriangie-1es were IN shape for an
otner gay OF riot except the Pup.
Aions lomslu sun-up tne PUP had
started 70 pun down the Barstow drug
s'ole' Doaru Dy poald. buL the slow
ness ., the WORK Wearled him. and SO
ne naa puIle0 hlmseu up TO the roof