Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1908-191?, 1909-02-12

I 20 myself. as started toward him
He waved me back, sayin' he'd just
come from a sick bed an | might get
the smallpox from him. but | wasn't
worryin about that. cause. you see,
Doc, I'd taken a great shine to that
padre. From what the boys had told
when they came out for the grub, that
man was a white man all the way |
through, an while | don't go much on
! sky pilots, I'll take of my hat to |
the kind of sky pilot he was in any !
| county / meet him. II amt the kind |
of pious talk a fellow puts out, Doc, |
but the way he lives it that keeps the |
| herd straight. an the padre showed |
down-that's what he did. | just got
TO him in time to grab him as he col
lapsed. He was clean played out, an
! bein' a sickly kind of man, was no
way fitted to do all that he did do be
| fore he got word up to FL Paso.
Il picked him up and carried him
down TO the creek an sprinkled water
on his face, the first luf fetched some
chicken broth in n pannikea al
hustled off to the medical chest--we
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in those days-for some whisky. / got
a few drops down his throat an in c
few minutes he opened his eyes an
said somethin' about bein' called away
from his sheep when they needed him
most. l don't know just why he called
them Greasers sheep, cause a Greas-
er's a Greaser, an if l was goin' to
call him any other name, I'd call him
a snake. But It seemed to worry the
padre a heap, an then he said he'd
hate TO die without the consolation of
the rites Of his church.
We'll, felt pretty durn bad myself,
Doc, cause you sec, / was sort Of I'm
the dark about the rites of his church
y an so / couldn't make an offer Of PUT
tim him over tho divide the way he'd
like to go, so 1 says: If you're dead
sure you're goin' to cash in, padre. TN
stand by an do anything for you that
q white man can do
l.. "Ho didn't say anything for q few
Z minutes. Then, reachin' inside his
\ cassock. ho pulled out q picture, am
+, halia' mr hand, told me ne wanted
me- to- find tho woman of chat picture
q an give her q message from him.
9 el,a him q little more whisky am
! BROTH an motioucd away some of the
, boys what had gathered around Ho
p rested O minute after swallowiu' the
b.o.h an then began TO talk I'm q
! weak voice.
. "Ho Told me the woman had been
his wife some years before an instead
Of ras.u' q family as O decent womaa
should. she'd just raised the devil, en
wound uu by sdppin' out with % CATTLE
Her. takn' the kid with her. Hl
lul set no trace of her anywhere
am HroEen-hc1rted, he had Joined
brotherhood of priests that were tryiu
4 o keep the Greasers straight along ,h.
4 1 3rando For years he hadu'
! beard of her until just before th.
q smaluoz hit his town, when he hear,
4 she had come back to III Paso an wa
1 rugnin' o Joint that wasn't in the Sun
q .1y school line-not by q iugful. Het
made up his mind to get the boy ava.
from her an was just ready to so q
\ the courts when the smallpox hit hi
! town an he had to tie down there. III
gave me "a message of forgiveness 70
her an to tell her to bring the boy N
7 decent an try an make a white MAJ
of him.
: We'll, the good padre didn't las
long. He was just worked an worrie
to death. His heart went back o
him along toward sunset an he dice
with his crucifiX against his lips, an
smile that was just like a mother
blessin'. We buried him alongside hi
church, in a shady spot where tn
%; birds he used to feed could sing to hir
~ all day long.
Not havin' any Catholics in tn
" bunch, eight or ten Of them bein' Pro
estants an the rest heathens, we weT
"a kind of stood up as to the proper kin
of send-off to give him, until Jill
Thomson, the first luff, said: Do
" gone it, cap, he was a Ranger of tn
20 Lord, warnt he? Wen give him
~, soldiers funeral!' An we did wit
~. three volleys an taps at the wind-u
- The doctors an nurses came fe
days later an we pulled our freigl
IN, for FL Paso. | hunted up the woma
In, an she was a siZzler all right Mu
cd have been fine-looker in her young,
,r,, days, but what with booze an a co
n;t tinual raisin of the devil she made
os mighty tough showdown when
N. struck her trail.
us She laughed in my face when
led gave her the good PADRES messai
got about the kid, an said she'd raise hi
any way she burned please, an VIII,
,ut pointed out to her that It's be co
me siderable difficult to keep a b.
vas straight in the bunch she was runnI
NJ with, she laced into me with all kin
OF abuse. / never laid my hands on
ov. woman yet, Doc, but / came Nigh
,5, near it that day an l gave her SOL
mighty plain Texas talk
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