, 1925-05-20

Oh NV So
"Cody has gone plumb to the dogs"
said an old cattleman from the South
Fork of the Sinking Water, as he
plucked an icycle from his overhang-
ing eyebrow and laid it carefully OIL
the stylish gilt radiator in the bar of
the Irma Hotel.
"It's cold up where I've been," he
continued, in mild explanation to
"Mein Albert" Heimer, the smooth
ness of whose cocktails is considered
a plausible cause for a trip to Cody
by the sheep and cattle men of 40
miles around. II just met something
/ take for an autymobile as / was
coming up the street, and my cayuse
clum a telegraph pole; it took thirty
minutes coaxin' with a pair of spurs
to get him down."
"Himmel," observed, 'Mein Albert
as he leaned over the bar. as dose
spurs? 1 thought the was phony-
graph records; you wears mans size,
! see."
"Did that man who brought that
machine here have any gredge agin'
the town."
"None that I knows of-he's just
come"
HAS it stampeded any citizens as
YETI"
"There was a moderate excitement
as you might say, when it made its
first trip down Main street. John
Reckless Davis went under the side
walk more quicker than a prairie dog
and the Palace Meat Market mule
scattered pot roasts, and liver, and
bacon between here and Frost's
ranch, where he was raised.
"What with top buggies, baby car
riages and automobiles a clutterin' up
the streets nowadays, it amt hardly
safe to go out a-foot. Councils is
about to fix a speed limit of three
miles an hour for all such vehicles
except the new hearse and that can
go as fast as it pleases, in weather
like this.
"This new ,autymobile," persisted
the old c%attleman, ~reverting to the
subject which consumed him with
curiosity, "do it come under the head
of furniture and stay in the house, or
is it livestock and boards al the liv-
cry stable?"
Zach, Colt! who can say?" "Mein
Albert" began mechanically to build
a sloe gin rickey as, over the top of
the frosted half of the window, he
saw a gray horse stop at the hitching
post. But ! think it rooms at the
livery stable and takes its meals out.
at were a granted machine a
bearin' of no brand that / notices
from the top of the telegraph pole.
Does it guide by the neck or is it
Eastern broker"
SEARCH me-but it will stand with
out hitchin'."
"If ! could git me a good dog gen.
tie, single-footin' autymobile ! be-
lieve I'd cut down the checks I've
been sendin' TO my wife's relations
and buy me one for the spring round
up. Does the frst-class, high priced
machine sabe a rope a-tall? Are they
liable to any special disease as would
leave 'em a dead loss on your hands?"
I'D hate to say what / think is
ailin' Of the new autymobile," said
"Mein Albert" grimly, "But l spoke
to the constable and suggested that it
makes its tours outside the city lin
its. He replies that my ignorance is
n pain to him and that the smell Of
gasoline ought TO be refreshin' to my
nostrils after some of the booze /
hands out, which same | takes to be
sarcasm"
at were a mercy that Two Dog
Jack and Sour Dough Sam were took
off TO their e%verlastin' punishment by
that rise in the crck before they
lived to see autymobiles whoopin'
down the streets of Cody. 'Twould
a broke their hearts to n seen what
the old town s comm to-"
"Mein Albert wiped away the tear
which splashed upon the bar and
dropped another in sympathy.
"'Twant half n dozen years &
that we used TO ride into Reds place