The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-02-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Call OF |
the Tame
Greenbrier Nye's Conversion
TO Tenderfoot Ways
By. o. HENRY
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By,o. HENRY
Copyright, 1910, by Doubleday. Page
& Co.

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When the Inauguration was accom-
plished the proceedings were made
smooth by the presence of the rough
riders-it is well known that a herd
of those competent and loyal ex-war
rio-s paid visit to the big city The
newspaper reporters dug out of their
trunks the old broad brimmed hats
and leather belts that they wear to
North Beach fish fries and mixed with
the visitors. No damage was done
beyond the employment of the wonA
derful plural .stenderfeet' in each of
the scribes' stories. The westerners
mildly contemplated the skyscrapers
as high as the third story. yawned at
Broadway, hunched down In the big
chairs in hotel corridors and alto
gether looked as bored and detected
as a member of ye ancient and hon
orable artillery separated during a
sham battle from his valet.
Out of this sightseeing delegation
of good King Teddy's gentlemen Of
the royal bearhounds dropped one
Greenbrier Nye Of Pin Feather, Ariz.
The daily. cyclone of Sixth avenues
rush hour swept him away from the
company of his pardners true. The
dust from a thousand rustling skirts
filed his eyes. The mighty roar Of
trains rushing across the sky deafened
him. The lightning flash of twice ten
hundred beaming eyes confused his
vision.
The storm was so sudden and ire
mendous that Graenbrier's first i'm
pulse was to lie down and grab a root.
And then he remembered that the dis
turbance was human and not elemen-
tai, and he backed out of it with a
grin into a doorway.
The reporters had written that but
for the wide brimmed hats the west
was not visible upon these gauchos of
the north. Heaven sharpen their eyes,
The suit of black diagonal, wrinkled
in impossible places: the bright blue
fourth hand, factory tied; the low,
turned down collars pattern of the
days of Seymour and Blair. white
glazed as the letters on the window
of the open day and night except Sun
day restaurants; the outcurve at the
knees from the saddle grip. the pc
culiar spread of the half closed right
thumb and fingers from the stiff hold
upon the eircling lasso; the deeply
absorbed weather tan that the hot,
/ test sun of Cape May can never equal
/ the seldom winking blue eyes thai
uncopsciously divided the rushing
crowds into tours, as though they
were being counted out Of a corral
/ the segregated loneliness and solem
nifty of expression, as of an emperor
or Of one whose horizons have not in
truded upon him nearer than days
ride these brands of the west Were
set upon Greenbrier Nye. Oh, yes; ht
wore a broad brimmed hat, gentle
/ reader-just like those the Madison
square postoffice mail carriers weai
when they go up to Bronx park 81
Sunday afternoons
suddenly Greenbrier Nye jumped int
i the drifting herd of metropolitan cat
tie. seized upon a man, dragged hin
out of the stream and gave bin but
/ fet upon his collarbone that sent hin
reeling against wall.
i The victim recovered his hat, witt
the angry look of a New Yorker VIII
has suffered an outrage and intends &
write to the Trib. about It. But b
looked at his assailant and knew tina
the blow was in consideration of low
and affection after the manner of th'
west, which greets its friends witt
contumely and uproar and poundini