Show 1 in texa s the tile manner in which visiting english in en aro are robbed in fit the west and the quickness with which some ot of them take tho the lesson to heart and practice it upon tho the next englishman who comes out or borrow from the prosperous englishman already there would furnish material for a book fill f ut ot of pitiful stories and yet one cannot help smiling nt at the wickedness of some of these schemes three englishmen for example e X bought as they supposed IS texas steers but the texans texan iwho who pretended pretend eI to sell them the cattle drove drove the tho same head ten times around the mountain as a dozen supers circle round the tile ba back k drop of 0 A stage to miko mako an army and the c englishmen counted and paid for each e ac list steer eerten ten times over there was another texan who made a great deal of money by advertising to teach young men me how to become cowboys and who charged them ten dollars a month tuition fee and who set his pupils to work digging holes for fence posts all over the ranch until they grew wise in their generation and left lef 1 him for some other ranch where they were paid thirty dollars per month for doing the same thing but in many instances it la Is the tables of san antonio which take the greater part of the visiting English mans money one gentleman who for some time represented the isle of wight in the lower bouie house blent three modest fortunes in the san antonio gambling houses and then married his cook which proved a most ail admirable mirable speculation as she bad a frugal mind and took entire control ot his little income richard 11 II davis in harpers Ilar pers weekly |