The Holbrook news., 1914-11-14

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 Tip asks Nettie. and two girls iron
 back East who are visitin' her. to g, along, knowin' they can stay with ID
 wife while there, and have a dane that night, returnin' the next day.
 It wasn't but 12 miles, so the! come.
 Now, on the way up to the Double Two. Tip gifts to hurrahin' Bud abou, them bein rivals
 Let's just make her say which is the best man before we git back to Square Deal tomorrow" he suggests to Bud. winkin' at the girls.
 Course Bud, havin' no self-confi- dence. hates to see it come to a test hathaway. him bein' willin' to take what treatment she gives him and thank you, too.
 But Tip insists on a showdown and at last Nettie lays down the rules of the contest
 What I really like" she says, '1s good ridin'. The best rider is the best man with me-"
 I'm afraid that lets me out" says Bud, duckin' his head to one side. "Tipll ride any outlaw you can put up, and I'm afraid to set on the fence and watch 'em pitch"
 They got here just in time for din ner and the chuck wagon was drawed up by the side of the barn and sheds.
 Tip was just goin' to pot for his fourth helpin of frijoles, him havin' a noble appetite, when he thinks of his rival.
 Where's Bud?" he asks. "Oh. there he isl" he says, "settin' on the grind stone to sharpen his appetite. Eat hearty, Bud" he calls out, we've got them stunts to pull of after while"
 T ain't hungry" says Bud. Pm just feelin' real common today"
 That makes Tip pretty near fall in the campfire laughin', and he looks at Nettie, and mods his head towards Bud, then stomps his foot and laughs some more, though she don't take no notice of him at all.
 And of all the wild and reckless stunts Tip does 'em that afternoon. whilst Bud does all the work they're both sent to do, cuttin' old man Gresh- am's stock out of the herd, and after wards pennin' 'em fer the night.
 About the time they had finished brandin' the last calf in the bunch we had sold, old Mankiller come up to the trough for water.
 Those old horses go several days without liquid refreshment in the win ter because they're too blamed lazy to walk the three or four miles to git it.
 This horse must have been pretty thirsty, for he's a old wolf that's killed two men and Is so wild he won't usu- ally come up where humans are. 5 The notion strikes Tip Taylor to ride him and. in spite of the outlaws pawin' and bitin'. Tip has roped him and got a saddle on him in less time that 1t would take to tell how he done it.
 He wasn't even satisfied with that for with all of us lookin' on, and the women screamin' and beggin' him to git of, his daredevil spirit is aroused right.
 Along comes a wild hog out from the shinnery just as Tips castin' around for something more reckless to do, and this here fool slams his rope on the "javelina."
 We'll, if the thing had been excitin' before, it was plumb perilous now!
 That hog drove his tushes in the ground, and jerked. and fought. and old Mankiller begins to bite the rope and right in the midst of 1t all the horse gives a sudden turn so the rope which of course is fastened to the sad dle horn. gifts stretched across Tips leg and begins to cut down into the flesh.
 You could see the boy begin to git white and sick, for that grass rope | was grindin' into his leg. and the hog was holdin' 1t tight at one end whilst | old Mankiller plunged and couldn't be turned.
 About Is cow-punchers stood help less while the women stopped | and everybody seemed to hold their breath for an instant
 Then through the air flew a pair of 'ringed leather .leggin's and the man n 'em covered the space between us  md Tip in just exactly nothing.
 We saw a pair of arms grapple with hat old man-eater's snarlin', bitin lead and. when 1t was tucked between lis right arm and pressed tight to lis side, he goes in his pocket with lis deft hand and rips out a knife. which he opens with this teeth and uts the rope right at the saddle-horn ust as we run up.
 The man was Bud Began.
 We are just in time to ketch Tip as le topples out of the saddle in dead aint and we let old Mankiller go. addle. bridle and all, for the time ein
 The ladies bein' on horses. galloped D and ask anxious if Tip is hurt bad, l