Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-07-28
CLYDESDALE %RACONTEUR
FAMOUS STORY TELLER

1880 AAaAaAaaAN
Lordsburg can boast a citizen
who rivals the famous Arabian
Night story tellers. The only diff
ference is that Georges tales are
of human interest instead of su-
perhuman, and they only move the
risibilities instead of the briny
tears.
Most of Dads" stories are on
travelling men, of whom he car
ries a great many on his daily
trips to the north. Here is one
1.-THE other day l had a green fell
low from the east who had been in
several automobile and railroad
wrecks. About ten miles from
Lordsburg there is an old steel
rail, how it got there is a question,
but it has been in the same spot
ever since | can remember. This
fellow leaned out of the car when
we passed, looked long and stead
lily at the disappearing rail and
said, For Gods sake, driver, that
must have been some wreck down
in L%ordsburg to throw that rail
away up here"
George is considered the best
driver in the country, and you
ought to see him make a train on
a short shrift. Sometimes, howev-
err, he has an accident, as anyone
will have accidents, you konw. One
day he had a fat man in the car,
q lone passenger, who wanted t.
make the IL 80 train. 1--WE were in
a hurry" said George. 1--WE were
thirty miles from the station, and
only two hours to make it in. /
was hitting the high places, and
the passenger was Topping around
in the back seat; he weighed 800
pounds and was too big for the
front seat. Several times l thot
he would upset the car, but he had
to make that train, and | was de
termined to do my best. Now,
there are some sharp curves in the
road in about one hundred places,
and we suddenly rounded one Of
them into a circumstance. A
rancher had set his dog on a year
ling calf, and it met us on a curve.
| put on my brakes and the calf put
on his, but all no good. The calls
feet slipped out from under him
about ten feet from the car, and he
slid under the front of it. The
springs ran up on his body, and
held him down with a pressure of
several hundred pounds. He could
not move, and you never heard
such bawling in your life. Sound
ed like lost souls wailing in pur-
gatory, combined with the bowls
Of seven dogs in mortal torture.
Well, | was busy trying to get
Strengthened out, and back off the
calf, and was not noticing the
stranger. What do you think that
fool had done? He had climbed
out of the car, and was trying tc
pull the calf from under the
springs. l didn't see him, as |
said before, and presently l back
ed off the animal. He wasn't hurt
any, and y2u never saw a livelier
or more Ell ergetic piece of flesh
in your life, The first | noticed
ny passenger was with his arms
around the calf's neck and going
down through the brush at about
seventy five miles an hour. How
the calf carried him | don't know,
but he was some excited, you see.
1t didn't last long, only l had t
walk about a hundred yards to get
in touch with the pieces. The
trail would have been plain
enough to a blind man. Rocks
were loosened, bushes were multi
ated, and a wire fence was com
pletely torn away. The fat mar
was a sorry looking spectacle, and
when | finally got him back in the
ar and brought him around, he
was still unit for rough travelling
We got in LOrdsburg about on
o'clock and it cost the stranger
twenty-five dollars to get patched
up. | have never seen him since.
and | don't want to. He may b,
looking for me some time, but if
| see him first he'll never catch
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