Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1911-03-03

ne should eat too long or too often
at one place they would swear at him
as IL by rote and without heat. They
swore SO drawlingly. and they rarely
paused short Of their full vocabulary
had often gulped q good meal during
the process of the vituperative pro-
hibition. The season there was al
ways springlike; the plazas were
pleasant at night, with music and
gayety; exceut during the slight and
infrequently cold snaps one could
sleep comfortably out of doors in case
the interiors should develop inhospi-
tality.
At Texarkana the car was switched
to the l. G. g. N. Then still south
ward 1t trailed until. at length. 1t
crawled across the Colorado bridge
at Austin, and lined out, straight as
an arrow. for the run to San An
tonic
When the freight halted at that
town Chicken was fast asleep. In ten
minutes 1t was off again for Laredo.
.
cattle cars were for distribution along
the line at points from which the
ranches shipped their stock.
When Chicken awoke his car was
stationary. Looking out between the
Stats he saw II was bright. moonlit
night. Scrambling out, he saw his
car with three others abandoned on
a little siding In a wild and lonesome
country. A cattle pen and chute
stood on one side of the track. The
railroad bisected vast. dim ocean
of prairie. in the midst of which
Chicken. with his futile rolling stock,
was as completely stranded as was
Robinson Crusoe with his land-locked
boat,
A white post stood near the rails.
Going up to 1t, Chicken read the let
ters at the top, 8. A. 60 Laredo was
nearly as far to the south. He was
almost a hundred miles from any
town. Coyotes began to yelp in the
mysterious sea around him. Chicken
felt lonesome. He had lived in Bos-
ton without an education, in Chicago
without nerve, in Philadelphia with
out a sleeping place, in New, York
without pull, and in Pittsburg sober,
and yet he had never felt so lonely
as now.
Suddenly through the intense ST.
lence, he heard the Wicker of a
horse. The sound came from the side
Of the track toward the east. and
Chicken began to explore timorously
in that direction. He stepped high
along the mat of curly mesquite grass,
for he was afraid of everything there
might be In this wilderness-snakes
rats, brigands, centipedes, mirages,
cowboys, fandangoes, tarantulas, ta-
males-he had read of them in the
story papers, Rounding a clump of
prickly pear that reared high its fan.
tastic and menacing array of rounded
heads, he was struck to shivering ter.
ror by a snort and thunderous
plunge, as the horse, himself startled,
bounded away some fifty yards, and
then resumed his grazing. But here
was the one thing in the desert that
Chicken did not fear. He had been
horses understood 4bar, - nu.',,
ride.
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