Show WHY HE LIKES DUDES HOW A PUNY tenderfoot astonished A ROUGH WESTERNER because lie had white and wore clean collars ne was dabbed mush and aio lasea he showed what HB waa made of iby saving a It angera life ve bad stopped at a railroad station on the pecos river and many of the passengers bere rere up and down the long platform among them was a young man who excited considerable sid erable ridicule from the dozen rough fellows hanging about one of them finally said something about ch awing him up when an old man in the gang raised bis hand and said that a foagh boys dost 0 iy ay farther it to yon demanded the othar A heap I 1 reckons its so much to me that ill do a beetle on that fellows account if needs te the two men looked menacingly at each other and for twenty seconds I 1 expected to see them draw wl fire then the younger one walked away growling as he went leaving clr field to the old man would yon have fought for the dude I 1 ached when the strain had been relieved Sar he grimly answered but you dont know him no and probably never shall but bo sort 0 reminds me of a leedla bar comstance cum stance ahat happened seven or eight years ago I 1 had a ranch tip on the pecos plaice and a dude came out from new york itty to visit a 0 mine he was jest sich a beanstalk aa this chap he lad soft hands a comans womans way of and I 1 looked him over and made up my mind that a texas baby three years old coald give him pointers why darn it if he wear white shirts and collars and play the pi annerl I 1 tried to be civil to him cause he was a stranger but it bout made me rick I 1 never looked at him without chinkin 0 mush and assed well waal arter hed bin out bout three months jim and me went out one day to look up some stray mustangs the fust thing we knew we got volley from a lot of who had broke loong from tho reservation jim was hit in the shoulder but fortunately carried off by bis boss who was a flier I 1 headed for a sink I 1 knowel of and reached it without a scratch then yon see my caper was to stand em off till jim could send help I 1 had a winchester and plenty of cartridges and durin the fust hour I 1 wounded ono cuss and killed another then I 1 got a chunk blead through this right arm and begun to feel a bit carvous as to how it would turn out I 1 swiped a bullet into another and in return I 1 got this rake along the skull it ten minutes arter that bafo I 1 bs gun to feel powerful sick and weak and I 1 jest reckoned that my scalp was goin to inake an ornament on some red critters belt but yon still stood them off As well as able but the end would hov come in about fifteen minutes more the last three or four shots I 1 fired I 1 waa BO blind I 1 see a rod the reds was to each other and makin ready to close in when I 1 heard a white man bellia I 1 coald tit see what took place but I 1 know how it was jest the same that mush and lasses dude was out on a hoss huntin jackass rabbits and jim run across him and told him how I 1 was fixed and axed him to ride fur help what do ye thiner the cuss did rode for home Not he rode fur mel hed never sees a war injun in his life and jim told him was a full dozen arter me but it made no difference he cornea ap on a dead run yellin and ehoodin eho otin and ni chaw my bat if he lay out two of the critters and kill a pony adora they could git away he tailed right in so mighty hard that they thought he had a big crowd behind djin that beetle ande with soft hands and puny arms lifted me onto his boss and rode to my ranch and then heads a crowd back and runs them reds levea miles and kills another why darn mel he got two ponies out of that scrap and he gathered up more wampum bows tomahawks knives and sich than any six of us had collected in five years when I 1 got about I 1 helped him to box and snip em to some club in itaw york tears to me it was like the manhattan club leastwise it had a longish name and the feller was a member and you came to like him bay he kin hev all ive got in this world any time he axes for it J made a big mistake cizin him up he could beat any of ns with the pistol and the feller who took hold of him for a casslo was thrower sky high before he bite his backer ter he could nm lika a deer a kangaroo and we find a broncho who could back him off and why yon interfered is it exactly show roe a dude and ill back him these boys faint learned che difference between a ande and a anle yit but I 1 hev and I 1 dont want no better chaps behind me in a pinch than andes specially new york dudes new york herald |