The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-22

a lot OF trowzy-headed MeNlcanS would snip the
fur off of them with back-action scissors So the
afternoon before the BARRIERS were to come hustled
my UNDERGONE muttons the hill, across the
dell. down by the winding brook. and up to the
ranch-house, where l penned EN- in a corral and
babe 'em my nightly adieus.
u went from there to the ranch-house. l find
H. Ogden, Esquire, lying asleep on his little cot
bed. l guess he had been overcome by antrim
somna diswakefuness some of the diseases
peculiar to the sheep business His mouth and
were open, and he breathed like second hand
bicycle pump l looked at him and gave vent to
just few musings Imperial Caesar says l..
asleep in such way, might shut his mouth and
keep the wind away
"a is certainly sight to make angels weep.
What good is all his BRAIN muscle, backing nerve,
influence, and family connections? He's at the
mercy of his enemies. and of his friends.
And he's about as beautiful as cabhorse leaning
against the Metropolitan Opera House at 1890 a.
n. dreaming of the plains of Arabia. Now, a
woman asleep you regard as different. No matter
how she looks, you know IT'S better for all hands
for her to be that way.
"Wcll, took drink of Bourbon and for
Ogden, and started in to be comfortable while he
was taking his nap. He had some books on his
table on indigenous subjects, such as Japan and
drainage and physical culture-and tobacco,
which seemed to the point.
After Id smoked few, and listened to the
sartoral breathing OF H. O.. happened to look out
the window toward the shearing-pens. where there
kind of road coming up from kind OF
road across kind of creek farther away
81 five riding up to the house All Of
en- carried guns their saddles, and among
EN- was the deputy that had talked to me at my
camp.
They rode up careful, in open formation with
their guns ready set apart with my eye the one
I opinionated to be the boss muck-raker of this
aw-and-order cavalry.
"Good-evening. gents says I. Wont you
light, and tie your horses
The boss rides up close, and swings his gun
over till the opening in it seems to cover my whole
front elevation.
Don't You move your hands none says he,
till you and me indulge in adequate amount Of
necessary conversation
"I will not says I. I am no deaf-mute, and
therefore will not have to disobey your injunctons
in replying
Owe are on the lookout says he, for Black
Bill, the man that held up the Katy for $4,000
in May. We are searching the ranches and every
you do this ranchH
"'Captain,' says l. 'Perciva Saint Clair is my
occupation, and my name is sheep-herder. I've got
my flock of veas-no muttons-penned here to-
night. The shearers coming tomorrow to give
them hair-cut-with baa-a-rum, l suppose
"Wheres the boss of this ranch?' the captain
OF the gang asks
"'Wat just minute, cap'n,' says I. Wasn't
there kind of reward offered for the capture of
this desperate character you have referred to in
your preanble:'
"'There's thousand dollars reward offered,
says the captain, but it's for his capture and
viction. There don't soen to be provision made
for an informer.
ait looks like it might rain in day So
says |, in a tired way, looking up at the ceruean
blue sky.
of you know anything about the locality, dis
position. secretiveness of this here Black Bill,
says he, in a dialect, you amable to
the law in not reporting it
az heard fence-rider say says I. in a desul-
tory kind of voice. that Mexican told cowboy
named Jake over at Pidgin's store on the Nueces
that he heard that Black Bill had been seen in Mat
by sheepman's cousin two weeks ago.
Tell you what III do. Tight Mouth says the
captain, after looking me over for bargains. IF
you put US on so we scoop Black Bill, I'll pay
you hundred dollars out of my own-out of our
own-pockets That's liberal says he. You amt
entitled to anything. Now, what do you say?'
Cash down now l asks
THE captain has sort OF discussion with his
helpmates, and they all produce the contents of
their pockets for analysis. Out of the general re-
suits they figured up sIo2 80 in cash and SCI worth
of plug tobacco
"'Come nearer caDtain mreo' saws and lis