The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-09-01
Memories Of Old
Man McNeal


gents is terrible innocent folks" OBJ
served Old Man McNeal apropos OF
tenderfeet in general as he fried the
bacon.
Now there was perfesser from a
college back east wrote to Joe Kipp
that he wanted him to pack him up
on the top OF some mountain there In
Teton county. Montana, where he could
take observations. Joe wrote him TO
git on at Blackfoot.
The day he was coming Joe got on
the train a piece up the road to meet
him. There the perfesser was sittin'
In his skull cap and slippers, and he'd
plumb fergot about gittin' on. They
had to hold the train in Blackfoot
while he got his traps picked up, Joe
says you never see such an outit as
he'd got together to take up on the
mountain. The mountain was so steep
twas hard climbin' fer goat, and
he'd brought No. . Charter Oak
cook stove. He had tent that you
could run q two-ring circus in. and
hadn't brought enough beddln' to wad
a shotgun. He had somethin' that
looked like a coffin that he were so
particular about the boys was bettin'
1t were his wife's corp.
but 1t seems he was one Of them
there astronomers. and he wanted to
git up on the mountain to take look
around with a telescope. Joe says he
never tackled such a job as gittin' that
telescope up to the summit He didn't
take the tent or the cook stove.
though. You bet the cid man had to
sleep 'longside camp fire while he
was star-gazin' in the Rockies.
Then there was a most amazin' fe-
male from Chicago hit the Swift Cur
rent country once. Her husband
come out on little huntin' trip and
was guidin' fer EN-. Now | amt what
you might call bashful, and l don't
make no such claims, but when that
lady from Chicago stepped out OF her
tent the morning after we got up In
the mountains reckon / blushed fer
the first time in fifty years. What she
was wearin' wasn't none OF these di-
vided skirts or bloomers. | never
seen anything like 'em before. They
was plaid and, should jedge. some
tighter than her skin They laced
down around the ankles and they was
layin' in Fuckers UP around her waist.
reckon | come as near runnin' that
day as I ever did in my life. My cay
use. Molly" that SHES at nuthin'
nearly bust her picket rope tryin' to
git away. Yes, ma'am, she was most
uncommon curious looking tenderfoot.
once there was tenderfoot from
North Caroliny got OF at Blackfoot.
The snow was somewhere near foot
ON the level and he wore linen dust
er. He got horse from Joe Kipp and
rode to Browning | happened to be
stopping at the Chinks hotel. He was
plumb interestin figure when he
rode through the snow into town in
that duster
Some entertainin' tenderfeet used
to come over from England to the
ranch when punched cattle down in
the Musselshell country. The ranch
was owned by an Englishman. and one
time q lord came over He made a
break right away by orderin' one Of
the cow-punchers to saddle bis horse
DO it yourself. says the COW
puncher, and the lord didn't know
what what to make OF it. We made
his life miserable after that. Wed gii
him out on the roundup and plague
the life out of him about bein' lord
We got him so he was ashamed Of 1t
| and IL anybody came he tried to keel
EN- from krowin it, But he got to b'
a firstrate fellow; could bust bronchoi
and cut out steer with the rest o
| EN-.
| The meanest cuss ever seen came
out there to visit him. This cuss hat
box Of cigars. and he used to pacl
EN- around with him on horseback TO
fear the boys would take EN-. HI
never offered anybody one. The boy
stole everything from him they coul'
get their hands on They stole hi
shirts and bis neckties till all he ha'
left was what he had on his back. H
had half-a-dozen silk handkerchief
that he'd got in India. and he wa
mighty choice of 'em. Made q kicl
every time he missed one. He hi
EN- and did everything he could :
keep em, but finally the boys got hir
down to the one he wore around hi
neck. They schemed for long tim
to get this one. and at last one da
they caught him asleep and they 200
it on his neck. He was sure mad whe
he missed it. Pretty soon after this
went back to England cussin' tn
country.
Montana amt no place fer tigh
chested gent. II he amt willin' I
whack up he'd better git out" col
: cIuded Old Man McNeal i. he laid th
} bacon tenderly ON chip and passe
!. it around.