Show BUCKING BYSHACEE How a Tenderfoot Queered a Cowboy WHERE AMUSEMENT WAS SCARCE An Incomplete Deck of Cards and a Freefor all Fight to see Who Should Have That to PlY With For THE SUNDAY HEHALD Copyrighted Said the wheelman to the cowboy Would you like to rideS Said the cowboy to the wheelman I dunnoI never tried Said the wheelman to the cowboy Im afraid youll pet a fall Said the cowboy to the wheelman Watcher glvm us at alit Said the cowboy to tho wheelman As upon the ground he struck pulled up her head and licked her But great Scott howshedidbuck Our ponies loped easily together This Is a beautiful place but so lonely I said to a tall grizzled ranche boss at my side Ive been in places where I wuz wore off for musomont and society said he lancing lanc-ing approvingly at me Ive been where it wuz so lonesome a feller wuz glad to meet oven a coyote and where wo didnt see a strange face onco in six months and I stayed there four years too Jt was down tother side of tho Devil L River region between the Rio Pecos and I the Rio Grande I wuz bunco busting for thq Hal Circle G It wuz the louesomest p furawayest place I ever staid Our outfit had been there three straight years and if 1 ve ever knopn nnvthn v rnnt it u U We had wore out every deck of cards in the rowd but one and that wuz two queens a nd a deuce short and of rainy evenins we used to have a freeforall light to see who hould have that to play with but as the f ellers that got licked always mused them elves putting bullet holes through the cards if A man dared to hold up his hand here wuzzent no good fun in playing cards Vo had raced all the ponies so much that we knew as well when wo set up a race which pony would win as wo did when it wuz over There wuzzent a town in 300 miles fit to got drunk in so when tho little event happened that Im agoin to tell you of we nnchelly thought Provordunco bad saw what hard lines wo wuz a havin and SENT US SOMETHING TO HAVE FITS OUT OF We wuz great pals with all the outfit at the rancho nearest neighbor to us the Bar X about thirty miles north and Im free to say that their bronco buster beat me I dont mind any pattern of bronco but he wuz jest hungry for wild mustangs and sich all the time Jim Guthrio wuz his name a big twolisted feller always a chaf folks fin and a gassin and a runnia rigs on ixt APIUID ITS TOO TAME FOR ME Bar X is a Boston outfit and they had a young Boston dude to come out there that laid over anything you ever saw in southwest south-west Texas He did suro wear tho ornri est clothes to be good store clothes that I ever saw His pants just come t his knees like a little boys and he had sorter custard pie colored brogans with nutmeg grater soles on them His cap beat creation I reclon they knowed he didnt have sense I enough to toll which wuz front and which IL L wuz back so theyd put a little gable on L both ends sos to hit him either way ho I took io ONE OF HIS EYES WUZ SPILED and he kept a glass lid on it but the lid I didnt fit very good and he had to sorter grin casionally to keep it on and the sight of him at them timesif youll excuse my saying sowuz enough to make a man cussHe wuz the son of the president of the Bar X company and they said hed been a studyin somethin too hard at college I think twuz lathetics they named itand theyd sent him out to git over it He brunf out what he called a machine or byshnckle of course youve sa V them a big wueei wnn a satiate on ana a little wheel 0 taggin it Ho wuz as fraid as death of anything like a good ponywanted thorn to shoot the baldfaced mustang the best racing pony on the Bar mustang it jumped j on Mexican 10 a few times onoday after it throwed him but hed git up on this here byshackle and set up in the saddle sad-dle and fold his arms and make her go wherever ho wanted her to Some of the boys lowed he made i run with his feet and he did kick round purty lively l part of the time but other times he would just put them slim legs of his up over its ears things he called handle bars and smoked I cigarette and it would rack on just j as peaceable as ever When hed sail along that way twistin up his foochers once in a while to keep his grass lid on ho looked so much like a prairie dog and so much wuss that it seemed to sorter down them They never jeered him as hed pass like they do other folks Theyd set up at tho mouth of their holes and look at him kinder sprised and respectful like they thought he wuz some sorter big highdaddy prairie dog COME TO liE KING OF TiE COuNTRY and as he got closter and they got a bettor view theyd seem to get sorter sick and faint and lay down on their backs and slide down cellar without a word and i any man had saw him then for the first time and picked him off there couldnt have been found a jury of good men and true in the state of Texas that would have made it murder We couldnt see our way to haze him round none while he wun on the Bar X land for fear hed write home and tell his pa but one day me and Petio and Buster and Jim Guthria and a lot of the boys wuz in off range and a hanging round down at the house of an old Mexican that sold pluky just a spiting for somo fun when along comes Mr Dude on his nickleplated pony a grmnin fit to make a prairie dog go out of the business We all got up and gathered round him and begged him to light while lght whie we wuz a pullin him off the machine and a touselin his store clothes He tuk it all mighty good natured stood a grinnin and a smokin one of his everlnstin cigarettes everastin while we boys all come round and let onTO on-TO CRITICIZE HIS > IClnI 1ONT One of us lowed i wuz too high in the walkers and another said i didnt have flesh enough on it to show off its points fair c Ji I Jim Guthrie he purtended to look at Its teeth and said it wuzzent nothin but a filly anyhow and no knowin what it would make in time with good handlin Some other Alick asked what brand it wuz and we let on to find swallorforks underbits and all kind of ear marks and jaw brands and hip brands on it We went on considerable and thought we wuz amazin funny and the little dude man seemed to think so too for he grinned heejous all the time Fmailyhe sez Some of you boys like to ride harP Jimho wuz managin the hazehe spoke up and sez Dunno I never tried anything of that sort Im fraid its too tame for mono need to ask i shes gentle and well brokelookinat the little dude mans thin shanks and hol crin a mile out laughintill you could a heard him warN SHE STPCCK A SNAG h Shes all right sez the little dude man sorter quiet i you understand her disposition dispo-sition and gaitsdont try to got on that way as Jim started to mount Im afraid youll got a fall Jim turned on him like hed eat him Did you over ride a bufiier ho hollored The little dude man shook his head and grinned Well I have sez Jim Bud he climbed on the byshacle Of course Jim couldnt be the broncobuster bronco-buster ho wuz without his balance being something to bank on and at first it seemed as i it would pull him through It wuz a I little down grade and him and the by shackle started off purty friendly though them things that travels round THE HUnS DID WHACK HIS SHINS SOME but ho got his stirrups after awhile and turned his head to wave his sombrero and give us a good Texas yell when he struck a snag and commenced a hoppin up and down Then Jim lost his head He had his quirt in his hand and ho began to lamm on the side of the machine like it wuz a buck ti in pony I only caroused around worse and he reached down and tried haulin upon up-on its lend and usin language I couldnt repeat to a lady We boys wuz a laughin to burst and he heard it and it made him wild ho wuz locoed and he rode the thing for all he knew but he rode it for a bronco and not a machine He quirted it he cussed it i and pulled up his head and every time we thought ho was gone hed ketch his balance bal-ance and stick Finally he came to a little gully and ho tried to spur itto make it jump j ho said afterwards and his spur caught in the spokes and down he wentall twisted up in that thing till it wuz a wonder won-der all his arms and legs wuznt broke t DOWN HE WENT ALL TWISTED IT Then it showed out how the little dude man had stacked tho cards on him for I have never misdoubted that he had wound up something to go off in that little colt hind wheel at the right time and when it seen he wuz down and tangled so he could not git up it riz up and pounded him like a dog dogJim dogJm mustnt had more pulky than I thought for he called out tp us real pitiful to come and pull that thing ellen him or it would kill him and when we did ho limped off home without a word As for that little dude man ho offered to teach us all how to ride the machine thing we didnt care forand he laughed till the lid fell often his spiled eye and ho looked more like a human bein than I ever seen him ALICE MACCOWAX |