The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-20
COWBOY HANK
WAS A WINNER
(Chicago News.)

When Hank Gossage went to take
the slicker off his saddle it was noticed
that there was a peculiar bulge in it.
Hank took hold OF the skirt, gave it
sharp jerk and developed a box Of
cigars.
open 'em up" he said to Hermosilia
Joe, who had bounced on the prize.
Don't think you're Robin me an get
swelled up. I brung EN- in to lavish
'em Light 'em up and give your lungs
treat Put EN- in your pockets. Chaw
'em if you wanter, dern your ethereal
essencesi"
your right prodigal. Hank" said
Billy Harper, smelling one of the cigars
critically. Il believe these is genuine
for dee Connecticut. You couldn't have
paid less'n a dollar a hundred for 'em.
May you live long and die happy, the
both of you and accumulate family
that will be a credit to the territory.
What did you do with the rest of your
right ear while you was gomez"
That" said Hank, waving aside the
smoke that was being blown toward
him. that was the penalty l paid for
my cussed ignorance of parental in
stinct 1t wasn't as bad as it might be,
because it amt the top of a fellsr's car
that does him any good. If Paw Cash
wilder had shot out the hole wouldn't
have got no more than what was COM
in to me by right"
Paw got hostile did he?" inquired
Cassius Stevens. cautiously lighting
one of the cigars
HE fooled me a mess" said Hank
'"Teil you how II was. Paw allus
seemed to take a kind of notion to me
never rode up there that he didn't
give me a cordial invite to git off an
look at my saddle, not even If it was
five or six times a day, which it was
right often lowed he hadn't got no
fool notion that I was so dead stuck on
him that couldn't keep away twenty
four consecutive hours, becus as like
as not he'd take his gun an go to look
at his traps like a gentleman as soon S
I'd got the little boss in the barn.
He acted reasonable, If not benign
ant, RICH. along, an I never grudged
him the plug o. tabacker he allus put
absentmindedly into the back o. his
jeans when handed it to him to whit
tie off a chew. If you've got one O.
them seegars left in the box I don't
know but I might smoke with you all
We'll" resumed Hank, that beil'
the situation,I didn't sabe the agerta-
ton Myrtle betrays when I spoke o.
brealkin' the news to paw. You want
10 go at him powerful easy. Hank she
says Don't git gay. You know how
there'll be suthin' sultry popping
"'All the poppin' that's goin' to be
done, has been done five minutes ago,
grille says I sure do know how /
are an so does paw. Me an him
would have no trouble. I'm heap con-
fident he'll be plain tickled to death.
Don't you gamble none on that,
she says. You can't tell about paw
most always. Don't git gay with him.
Il don't want him to git gay with
me- / says. OF course I says, TIL al
lers recker1ect he's your daddy. but 1
don't see as he's any call to inStigate
unpleasantness- He's got sense an I'm
right on TO my job every time, sister,
and don't you go an forget it
Don't you say l didn't warn you,
she says.
We'll, after a while paw comes back
an Myrtle she tripped off to her little
bunkroom an left us 10 ourselves. I
didn't indulge in no preliminaries nor
foolishness- I opened right up on him.
Paw says, It's my. doOty an my
privilege to inform you that I'm in
tendin an alliance of a nuptial nature
with the Cashwilder family. That amt
no news 10 you, I'll bet. Still, in case
you thought it likely it d be a pleasant
relief to you
"Ts that So? he says. sort of nom
committal-like.
It's a cinch.' says. Myrtle an me
have got 1t all fixed up, an I told her
I'd ask you fer your blessin'.'
That's right clever of you to con-
slider me, Hank he says. But s'posin'
] objected?'
You wouldn't SHOW good sense l
says. There amt so many boys
around here with the bunch o. cattle
I've got, nor the ranch I've got, nor the
high moral character I've got. An II
xxnnidnif do eQn6 nhiapfin'
how
''Havin' eased myself o. these few re-
marks, l got up on my hands an knees
an felt o myself all over to see If all
my bones was in place. Then looked
at the surrounding landscape an then
at the closed door l knew he was in
side lissenin', so l didn't use no Ian
guage. 1 wondered If Myrtle had been
lookin' out o. her winder an had seen
me maxim no exit so abrupt.
"I was mad 1 forgOt-lum forgot
he was her daddy, an / kicked the
door in an caught him by that billygoat
beard of his. As I done that I Felt a
kinder funny sensation in my STUN
.mick, and happenin to look down I
seen II was the muzzle of a. As sticI1in'
against nv waistband. So l get go Of
his brindle chin appendage, an backed
off. That's what you run on when
you've gone an left your artillery at
home"
Then you rubbed the tip of your ear
off when you slid on the gravel?" asked
HermoSilla-
Not any," replied Hank. he took Il
playful shot at me as I LIT out. He
didn't mean to hit me-jest tried to see
how clost he could come. II was poor
shootin' for paw. He achully felt
ashamed of ii himself"
Then you seen him again." said
Billy Harper.
why not?" said Hank. Materially I
seen him after | went back TO che
ranch an heeled myself. got the drop
on him as he was shakin' down hay for
the calves. an then | asst him to please
explain himself.
Hank ne says, I hain't no objec-
ton TO you in the world as a son-in-
law. II I had I'd "a run YOU off tho
ranch six months ago, an you'd have
stayed run. But when you come at a
father in the brash way you did you're
violatin' eterket an the rules o the
game. 'Cordin' 10 Hoyle, fathers has
got to be hostile he says. They're due
TO snort an paw the grass when boy
comes around 10 rob EN- of their dar-