The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1915-03-12
Daring Feats of Horsemanship.

, climbing by a roundabout way ant
over a high board fence into the bacl
yard, secretly posted themselves a
the blinded window in the rear of the
little one-roomed office and breath
lessly awaited news from within.
They got him laid on the settee,'
whispered a venturous boy who had
leaned a board against the window
sill and climbed into a position com
handing the enviable advantage of a
broken window pane. II kin see him
through a hole in the curtain. Keep
still!
"They got his coat off, and his
sleeve rolled up" whispered the boy,
in continuation-"and the doctors
a-givin' him some medicine in a tum-
bier Now he's a-pullin' his arm. Gee
mun-neei / kin hear the bones
crunchl"
"Hain't he a-cryin'?" queried a milk
faced boy, with very large blue eyes
and fine white hair, and grieved ex-
preston as he spoke. "Hain't he
a-cryin'?'
well. he hain'ti" said the boy in
the window, with unconscious admira-
ton. Listen,
| Il heerd him thist tell 'em at it
wasn't the first time his arm was
broke. Now keep still" and the boy
| in the window again bent his ear to
the broken pane.
HE says both his arms ben broke"
continued the boy in the window
says this-'un ats broke now's ben
broke two times fore this time
"Dog-gonel hain't he a funny
felleri" said the milk-faced boy, with
his big eyes lifted wistfully to the
boy in the window.
'He says onc't his pap broke his
arm wen he was whippin' him."
whispered the boy in the window.
"Bet his pas wicked mani" said
the milk-faced boy, in dreamy, spec
ulative way-"s'pect he's a drunkard,
er somepin'i"
Keep STILL said the boy at the
window; they're tryin' to git him to
tell his pap's name and his, and he
don't do it, cause he says his pap
comes and steals him ever time he
finds out where he is
The milk-faced boy drew a long,
quavering breath and gazed suspi-
ciously round the high board fence
of the enclosure.
"He says his pap used to keep lib
erty stable in Zeeny-in Ohio som ers
but he daresn't stay round there no
more, cause ..he broke up there, and
had to skedaddle err they'd clean him |
out! He says he hain't got no mother,
ner no brothers, ner no sisters, ner no |
nothin'-on'y," the boy in the win |
dow added, with very dry and pain |
full swallow, "he says he hain't got |
nothin' on'y thist the clothes on his |
backi'
Yes, and l bet" broke in the milk
faced boy, abruptly. with his thin lips |
compressed, and his big eyes fixed on
space-"yes, and bet he kin lick
Billy Kinney, eff his arm is broke!"
At this juncture, someone inside
at the broken pane leaped to the
ground, and, f1ocking at his heels, his
frightened comrades bobbed one by
one over the horizon of the high fence
and were gone in an instant
So it was the hero of this sketch
came to be known as "The Boy From
Zeeny'
The Boy from Zeeny, though evil
IDENTIFY predisposed to novel and dis
astrous happenings, for once, at least,
mad come upon a streak of better for
tune; for the doctor, it appeared, had
someway taken a fancy to him. and
had offered him an asylum at his own
home and hearth-the compensation
stipulated, and suggested by the boy
himself, being a conscientious and eff
icient service in the doctors stable.
even with his broken arm splintered
ind bandaged and supported in a
ling, The Boy from Zeeny could daily
,e seen looping the doctors spirited
lorse up the back alley from the
table to the office, with the utter con-
dence and careless grace of Be-
ouin. When, at last, the injured arm 6
vas wholly well again. the daring
eats of horsemanship of which the
oy was capable were listened to with 8
lcredulity by the good" boys of the t
tllage school, who never played o
hooky" on long summer afternoons, n
nd. in consequence, never had a Z
hance of witnessing The Boy from o
eeny Looping up to the 'swimmin'- d
OLE" mile from town, barebacked, "
18th nothing but a halter, and his Il
ice turned toward the horses toll. d
| fact, The Boy from zeeny displayed a
lch a versatility of accomplishments, CT
lose, too, Of a character but family II
presented in the average boy of the X
'untry town, that, for all the admira- ly
on their possessor evoked, an equal I'll
Ivy was aroused in many youthful CT
east to