The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-03-05
ENOUGH OF BUCKSkIN
NEW HARNESS NICK DEMPSEY
cor WAS OF LEATHER.
Thereby Hangs a Good Story of the
West--How the Weather Helped
Sam MuldroW to Win Almost
Hopeless Bet.

Nick Dempsey was ror certainty
swung the ribbons over pair of
horses" said the cab driver who had
come in ont OF the west to take a
position on the box OF a metropolitan
taxi-whizzer "He always had the best
team that he could combine, and the
care he took of them was a lesson TO
the S. P. c. A, And his harness!
Wen, Nick laid himself out on them
and they looked like circus fixin's
But pride geeth before fall and Nick
got his, bimeby Somebody told him
that buekskin made the finest harness
in the world, and be didn't rest till
he got set of buckskin harness. He
| made 1t himself, TO be sure 1t was Just
right, and II was about the gayest
| thing that ever got up to the foothills,
| not excepting Sadie McGinniss' we'd
| ding toys, and they was some,
"Nick hadn't more than got his new
| that drove mule team, challenged
! him for trip to the railroad and back
thirty miles each way. and no turn
! pike, neither. Nick fairly snorted al
Sam, but Sam shook fifty-dollar bill
| under his shorter and told him thai
was what was what, and Sam took il
| at q gulp, he was that willing. W.
| got all our goods by team and the,
was going back and forth every two
or three times week, but nobody
ever thought OF making speed recort
till Sam put 1t up to Nick and hin new
harness.
"They got away all righS and th'
| whole road was out TO see them al
they trekked! along II was the big
| gest thing wed ever pulled OFF AMI
betting was frequent all around. odd
on Nick abDut fortyseyen 10 one
People said Sam was a fool. but hi
and the weather 1t did look like rain
| and mules Ia hnrd to beat in the mud
but IL was M ghty long shot for San
and the few fbackers he had. The.
pulled In at tue railroad about ever
and going eagy, both Of them takinl
care of their critters for the han
home next day with load.
"They WAS TO leave next mornint
at seven, and no joekeying on th'
start. That night 1t rained, cleared
OF and turned colder, Just right TO
travelling. There wasn't anything a
the railroad but station AGENT
house and shed alongside of thu
house. and the shed wasn't any shell
ter to brag on. When Sam got to !
Mt about six next morning he foun'
Nick there GUESSING forty ways for th'
Sabbath and repeat. He was slam
ming that fancy buckskin harness al
over the ground and swearing ever,
time 1t hit, and every time 1t hit
made noise like cracking CHECKER
coop.
"The rain during the night hs
blowed in on It, and when IT dried
was harder than a board and wouldn
At boss any more than an iron Gag
would. Prompt at seven Sam puile
out for home, leaving Nick In the she
still cussing and banging his harness
Nick got back that night about fou
hours after SAN had gone to bed. an
the strings and ropes and wires an
pieces of galluses and strips of boo
legs and sections OF buckskin tina
made up his harness was sight t.
see. And Sam Muldrow was a gentle
man. He let Nick keep SIS OF tn
. bet to buy new harness with. an
Nick didn't get no buckskin harnes
with It. neither, mind that noW.'