The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-11-02
New York
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Away out IN the Creek Nation We
learned things about New York.
We were on a hunting trip and
were camped one night on the bank
% a little Htr~am. bud Kingabury
WINS our skilled hunter and guide.
and II WAS from his lips that we
had explanations OF Manhattan and
the que.r folks that inhablt H.
Bud had once spent a month In the
metropolis. and n week or two al
other times, and he wna pleased 10
discourse 20 us Of what he had
seen
f1ty yards away from our camp
WINS pitched the tcspee of a wander
Ing family Of Indian. tina; had come
up and settled there for the night
An old. old Indian woman was try,
Ing 10 build a fire under m Iron pot
hung upon three sticks
Bud went over 10 her sssistance
and soon had her fire going. When
he came back W. coinpllmentcd him
playfully upon his Eailantry.
"oh," said Bud. don't mention n
It's way I have. Whsn.y.r / see a
lady trying 10 cook thingH In a DO,
and having trouble ! always 80 70
the rescue done the Same thing
once In a hlzh-toued house Ia New
York city. Heap big society teepes
on fifth ava That inJun lady Kind
Of recalled II 10 my mind Yes, !
cndcayoTb to DO polite and help the
ladies' out
Tho camp demanded the par
uuulara.
Il was manager OF the Triangle
u ranch In the Panhandle" said Bud
1T Was owned at that time by az
old man Sterling. Of New York. lie
wanted 20 sell out. and be wrote foi
mo 70 come on 20 New York and ex
plain the ranch 10 the syndicate thai
wanted 70 buy. SO I sends to Fort
Worth and has $50 sui; Of clothes
made. and hits the trail for the bis
village
Well when rot there. Old mar
Sterling and his outfit certainly laid
Themselves out TO be agreeable. VIZ
had business and pleasure 80 mixed
up usAi you couldn't tell whether /,
was . treat or . trade half tho time
We had trolley rtdca and cigArr. and
theasrs reundup& and rubbcs
pArtiox."
-Rubbrr psrrzr nid . nsssnr
anquirtngiy.
SURE aM bud -D4dnr you
n~vcr attend emf You walk around
and try 20 hook At the tops OF the
r,Syscrapera Wen. We sold the ranch
and old man Sterling asks ms
round 70 his house TO take grub or
The night before I started hack. II
wasn't any high-collarcd affalr--jus,
me and tho Old man and his wife
and daughter. Bu, they was a fine
haired ousfi, all right. and the lilies
OF The nald wasn't In H. They made
my Fort Worth clothes carpenter
look like a dealer In horse blanket,
ana zee strings And then the table
Was all pornpous with flowers, and
uicre was a whole KIT of tool. lasc
out beside everybody's plate. YOU'D
have thought you was fixed out te
burglafixs a restaurant, before you
could act your grub. But I'd beer
In Ncw York over q week then. and
! was getting on to stylish ways
Kind OF trallcd behind and watched
The others use tho hardware supple,
and then ! tackled the chuck with
The same weapons. i, Amt much
trouble TO travel with the high
Flyers after you find out their gait
l got along finn was feeling COO
and agreeable. and pretty coon I was
talking away fluent as you please
all about the ranch and the West
and telling en- how the Indians ca,
gra~nhoppar stew and snakes. and
you never saw people so Interested
but the real Joy OF that feast was
That Miss Sterling. Just a little trick
she was, not bigger than two bits
worth Of chewing plug, but she had
way about her that seemed to say
she was the people. and you believed
H. And yet. she never put on any
airs, and she smiled az me the same
as II was a millionaire while I was
telling about a Greek dog feast and
listened like II was news from
home.
by and by. after we had en-,
oysters and some wa,cry soup and
truck that never was In my roper
tory. Methodist preacher brings In
Kind OF camp stove arrangement
all silver. on long legs. with a lamp