The Winslow mail., 1909-12-25

him more peaceful an contint like.
+ An, besides. 1t give him an ambition
+ to work which was quite sumptuous.
Il had planted some corn, an that's
4 all that ever happened 10 that corn
So one day / was tryin' TO coax it ont
of the ground, il being that reluctant
an shy an backward that it was
ashamed 10 show its face in Kansas
an | don't hlame it--so | dug up
/ some Of il to see if it was still there
/ 1t was. For all know, it's there
! yet. Anyhow, never saw hair or
hide of it.
Anyway was out where the corn
could be if il had a mind, whin me
brother came runnin' up from an
other part of me sumptuous estate.
/ lie was excited, an his eyes was
something doin
/ Perhaps says ], 10 meself. says.
/ perhaps he has discovered a blade of
corn, | says. I dunno Yer see was
prepared of anything,
Sunset, says he, pantin'. an his
eyes atire, there's something over
there beyant the hillock, says he,
/ that looks like a cross between a COW
an a rhinoceros.' he says.
Pooh, pooh says L Ne lad,
yer've bin drinkin', says, airily It's
The hoss,' ] says.
Yer burned fool. says he. I was
plowin' the boss whin it came along
he cove .op, tho l,occ brctod bic toll
an wint to glory. plow an all, says
he, an | reckin be this time he's
plowed a furrow all the way to Gin
cinnati,' he SAYS
Then saw as how it behooved me
to get up an open a Jackpot or
something, for that hoss stood be-
tween me an starvation If the claim
didn't develop | might have to eat
that hoss. So | scuttled across with
me brother TO get a look BE the
shades of ST. Patrick it was buffalo
"a buffalo with buff all over him.
He was chewin' up all me tomato
vines-thim vines | had raised be
hand, as it were, an considered me
brothers and sisters
! ouOO, says j, W Iu6 DuudiD. puOO,
| says. or I'll come over there an
kick hole in yer says T.
He looked up at me with me to-
mato vines a-meanderin' out of his
mouth, an snorted. If / didn't fall
dead, the Lord knows it wasn't be-
cause | wasn't expectin' to. Never
having had any speakin acquaintance
with buffalo, | didn't know wheth-
er he'd bite or kick or swally me
alive, or what, any one or which
Let me kill him, says me brother
Sure says |. Me lad, if yer
think yer can kill him, wade in an
take holt, says
With the shotgun, says me
brother.
Well, says |, beginnin' to re
cover me jaunty air, for was a
reglar divil thin days. Well | says,
yer go git the gun while ! watch him
But, | says, l think it might be a
good idea to catch him an tame him.
| says. He looks like he might be
able to yank a plow,' says l, from
Monday to Mississippi | says.
Do yer know anything about buf.
faloes?' says me brother
Me lad says |, 4 know all about
thin, | says. They're as harmless
as Kittens says |, if yer tie them
somewhere an climb tree l says.
Yer go get the gun, | says.
And he wint, leavin' me alone in
the middle of a large prairie, with a
buffalo. If that fellow had started
at me | wouldn't have touched any
thing but the high places. Subse-
quent proceedin's showed I didn't
even touch thin, but-anyhow he
didn't know it. Reminder, | had never
seen buffalo before. | didn't know
his capabilities at all, at ALL | think
| was a brave man.
"Whin me brother had gone, the
buffalo took one long squint at me,
an thin returned to me tomato vines.
1t was fine lunch he was havin'.
He was eatin' me heart out. So cas-
ually | SHE'D a stone. He looked at
me, astonished like, chewed up his
last mouthtul, took a long breath, an
started for me. had just backed up
to get good start for distance race,
whin me brother appeared over the
hillock an fired the gun.
The buffalo got charge of bird
shot in his hind quarters, an he
turned tail an wint away from there
bellowln' scandalous. He was in
1 hurry, an his language was that OBJ
scene an indecent that | was shocked
for me brothers sake 1t was worsen
political speaker
Charge says l to me brother
With the buffalo goin' the other way.
| felt like Napoleon
Charge yersef, says me brother,
or wait till | get the gun loaded, he
says. The gun was muZzle loader
one of thin guns which if yer didn't
kill what yer shot at the first crack.
it would come up an bite yer in the
face while yer were reloadin'. 1t was
a grand gun. | never shot anything
with it but prairie dog. an missed
him.