The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-26
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THE LIGHTER SIDE
The Swaddie, the Savage, and
the Buckaroo.
,,...sssss 80 = = . = = = t*ss
Hugh Herdman.

m protect the game and TO Keep pedce
within the mark: the stage driver Is
xaetAd with practically undisputed au-
+hori4v on the road, and woe be unto
any sagebrush tourist, as he calls any
one who does not ride in the stage
who does not give him right OF way.
The result is that soldier and stage
driver are brought into frequent con-
fffct. The stage driver shows his con-
tempt by clubbing the soldier the
swaddie." and the soldier repays him
in kind by branding him the savage.
Besides the dispute over authority,
there is another cause of disagreement
between s'swaddie. and savage, and
and that is the waiter girls Leppy
observation on this subject was TINS:
whenever there's a fght-I mean a
fight. not a quarrel-between a swad-
/ die and savage. most generally one
IF them biscuit shooters is at the bot
tom Of it Did you ever notice that
/ when YOU take a crowd Of men to-
gather they always manage to get
j along somehow with only bout the
right number of shootin's and killin's;
but when you take and mix few
| yyiunen in with 'em, hell begins te
pop right away. Now I amt sayln
this is the winmen's fault; I'm jest
Stain facts"
j When Leppy saw the swaddie
Livermore, coming toward him, he le
his feet down over the edge again, ant
began to roll another cigarette. H
: and Livermore were good friends, an
when George came up and seated him
, self beside Leppy, the fact that neithe
spoke was not considered anythini
unusual. For several minutes they sa
there smoking and Tipping rocks dew
> into the chasm. Finally George turne
} to Leppy.
"Leppy.o he said, @you know tina
savage called shorty Dugan, don
you?''
: sure" Leppy replied, Il know hin
= why?"
; rs he a friend of yours?" Georg
asked.
( ..weu.'' said Leppy, slowly, II air
e got nothin' agin him, so / reckon yo
: can cali him a friend of mine. Why
: IF he is a friend OF yours and 80
:, want to do him a favor, you jest L
him that I say he'd better not
II poachin' after my game"
IS Leppy looked at him moment, the
n said: 81 amt no Injun. George; don
savvy no sign language"
I 'wen. it's this way. Leppy, Geort
said. after debating whether or not
n tell him. "and don't mind telling 70
i'cause I think you know enough
keen your mouth shut. There Is
5. mighty pretty little girl, Lizzie Brow
u IN here to the hotel. and kind Of be-
"a navin, her some attention. She all
enc of them conmen-lookin', slab-sId
- run-f7own-at-t he-hee1 biscuit-shootel
fL4eppy, she's a high-tone little lad
70 she's a peach, that's just what she
m She Is too good to be slingin' hash, b
1T she wanted to see the park and dbl
IN have the money to see il any otn
he xav hut nv working her way throug
xt Tennv. she's a bird. And as I'm 50
d nosad 10 look out for the birds in I
~ mark wont have none Of them 50
70 ages rlnnir1' round after her. You j
IN tell shorty Dugan that. So long!
is $50 long. Georgey" Leppy repli'
he watching I.ivermora as he swung aIo
N. the trail. This provided food for f
ay Their thought and another half-he
re, slipped By before Leppy started ba
to DO his feeding. AS he stumped ale
vn the trail with a cowboys natu
on awkwardness when on foot, he ca
he across shorty Dugan near InsplraI
ng Point.
.ty Hello. shorty" Leppy exclaim
he What you doin' here2
nd "Nothin'!''
he amt you drivin' today"
ro "No. Cot a felon on my hng'
he shorty replied. gently rubbing
itv hand. which he had wrapped IN a