Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-05-28
Through the
Sunny South.
Continued from Last Week

in the auto and all seats filled at
just 1870 p. m. My place-from
choice-was in the hindmost seat
and on the outside. | didn't
want the old thing to run over
me if got dumped out. | guess
| felt just little larger than |
ever felt before, for this was my
first automobile ride, and since |
come to think l haven't got
it yet. l just thought if the rest
of the boys could stand it could
for l wanted to get even with
that smart set. After Mr.. Phil
lips, our chaperon, and that
other fellow-what is it you call
him, l give it up, anyhow it's
the fellow that pulls the critters
nose and makes it snort and tear
around and act mad and some
times makes a wicked jump al
most right from under you-well
I'll name him the next time | go
down to the Rio Grande. After
they got in and this last fellow
braced himself and grabbed a
wheel and commenced winding
it little and opened some kind
of a breathing place and the
thing began to act up again and
this fellow looked around at some
of us fellows and laughed. |
thought it was me and | said,
without thinking how it sounded,
"let the old thing go, I'm ready"
And for a fact he turned it loose
and l wasn't so sure about being
ready. l had my note book and
pencil in hand ready to sketch
everything we passed by, but |
soon found out | had no time
for book keeping on this crazy
thing jumping stiff legged and
every other way.
We passed down Wild street a
short distance, then turned upon
Medium street, following this a
quarter of a mile, then passed
out on Cactus street. BY this
time the engineer, will call him
l can't think of that other name
yet, and if l did l could neither
spell nor pronounce it without
taking another look at the fellow,
for / can't just remember the
color of his eyes, by this time he
had this Texas monster nicely
under control. l said to myself
| bet those other fellows are feel
ing bad; for we fellows just
silently and deliberately stole a
march of them, they expecting
US to accompany them over to
old Matamoris Mexico. But you
remember told you l would get
even and l did too. And one
fellow told me the next morning
he felt bad all afternoon and
just acted like l felt bad because
he felt bad but l didn't. | was
just getting even.
Well here we are away out in
the country before we realize it,
looking at this fine tract oi
5000 acres of land that Mr.
Phillips brought US out to see
This land is all to be under q
system of irrigation with Z
storage canal ID miles long, hold
ing a sufficiency of water tt
irrigate 100000. This is one o.
the big things in this soutf
country. By this time the warn
sunshine, with its telling beam
of hot, hotter, hottest, hac
begin to get in its work on ou
cheeks that looked, and felt
like some tendertoot from
Nebraska, or male blonde from
the good sunflower state o
Kansas. But that umbrella
bought at Kansas City for The
purpose of keeping off this Texa
sunshine l forgot and left at th
car, just like did the stamp fo
the postal card. However,
made up my mind, as l didn'
have 1t with me, l would jus
take little sunshine and littl
less shoe shine for / was boun,
to have this automobile ride if i
did cause tender spots on tn
delicate fabric of my homel
physiognomy, still have thos
two accident tickets to fall bac
on in case / had rather fall tha
jump.
Well everything was just goinj
fine and every one of the boy
were talking about this, that an
the other, and | made up m
mind to say something too, an
! just stood up, yes | did, and
just asked Mr.. Phillips if h
thong this mart of Texas wOul