Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-07-17

made new men out of Tex ane
Johnny. Johnny ate until he nearly
fell out of the chair and until ever
Ronny was moved to remark about
it.
Goodness Tex, don't you eve,
feed this child of yours? 1t seem,
impossible to fill him up"
miss Ronny," drawled Tex
'I'll apologize for him. Ordinarily
I'd be plumb ashamed of him but
l gotta admit he dang near earned
the right to eat his fool haid of
this trip"
Johnny was quite shameless ane
unabashed. He yawned and grin
ned and rolled a smoke.
"Ain't often 1 get service like
this. Gotta make the most of it.
y'betcha. An yuh know yuh'd
feel offended if l didn't eat yor@
cookin'," he ended, addressing these
words to Ronny. II could do with
that kind of cookin' the rest of my
life, I'll tell a man."
"Haw! Haw!" rumbled San Juan
as Ronny blushed and fled. Kinda
sudden, that kid, eh Tex?"
Hes purity DANCED fresh if yuh
ask me-" chuckled Tex. "If'n he
don't mind his manners I'll work
him over with a quirt."
Huh" snorted Johnny. "Jest
try it, yuh frazled out ole tie
string. Now to show yuh Pm a
gentleman I'm goin' in an help
Chang wash the Dishes"
"Heh-heh," shifted Tex scorn-
"Gettin' mighty considerat<
of that Chink seems to me. Wond-
er if yuh think yuh're foolin' any
body. l hope the little lady smack
yore face with a dish rag"
When Johnny had gone the lev.
ity slipped Immediately from Tex!
face. He turned to San Juan.
Sorry the kid an me had t.
salivate those gents with the cat
"I'm not" bit out San Juan
"Shore they had it COM
IN the damned double-crossin'
coyotes. Things trailed out jest
IS I fingered they would at the
Springs. They want no marks of
any stampede was there?"
"None whatsoever" answered
Tex, THAT sign showed they jest
cut out that bunch an headed 'em
northwest"
II knew it. Ever since l got
l been figgerin' Wade an his
was crooked. Pink Crosby
an Pod Fortune are good boys but
The rest was workin' with Wade.
Yuh know Tex, I'll tell yuh some
thin about how I got hurt. l was
a thousand haid Of my
prime stuff to the railroad at Saw
We had the herd bedded
at Shelton Springs. The
night was quiet, no wind OF
nothin'. l was sound asleep when
the break came. Fust thing I knew
was a lot Of bellerin' an
an when I got outa my
tarp l saw the cattle was on the
run. I chucked a hull on a bronco
an forked him an lit out to try
an turn 'em so they'd take to mil
lin. 1t was dark as the ace of
an everybody was ridin'
hell-catoot. They was men ridin'
on both sides of me.
"All of a sudden on plain level
ground my boss turned a somer-
O'course l hit hard an my
Vent out. When I came to
it wa jest breakin' day. My back
was hurtin' like hell an l seemed
from the waist down. My
bronze was lynn jest as he fell, with
broken neck. They was a can
teen tied to the saddle an as l was
hell l drug myself over to
to get a drink. While I was
I got to figgerin' it wa
kinda funny that 'hoss should hays
thataway on level ground.
him over an jest above the
fetlock of the near front laig
where he'd been burned with
rope"
"Hell!" burst out Tex. "Yuh
mean to tell one Of them
dang snakes roped yore boss an
him apurpose?"
TEX, that's jest exactly what
happened"
"Then the whole thing was a
,et-up-stampede an ALL"
II figger it was. An they run
off with eight hundred haid of my