Show BOUGHT OUT HOTEL English Tenderfoot Was Game and Showed Shoed the Cowboy Cowboy Cow Cow- I boy Camp What a Hot Sport Was I I Of oc all ni the easy tenderfeet who ever er e blew Into Into a a cow camp said 1111 the old cattleman old was as the ens- ens lest He was a genuine sure enough Earl Eari a real specimen of ot royalty and ho had money enough to sink Pierpont Morgans Morgan's yacht or bu buy alt all al the grazing country from Rio Grande Grandc City to Bil BI- BI Ins lings Mont He was a bird he was a n regular tailed ring squealer and when he landed In Big Dg Springs with his bunch of trunks his gun sun cases dogs doSs and things s with wih n a meek-looking meek sky oky pilot piot trailing tring on behind him I says to Hank Maguire Here Is where we get some good English mone money Set Aylesford and the dominie went OV over overto overto to the Spread Eagle hotel and the smoke was that thick you ou could have havo cut It with wih n a knife Jack Bowles Milt Ht Turner and Doc Doe Whitesides was playing a n game of oC draw drw and from th the WI way tho the chips was rattling and the goin so- so 0 In In on there must have been some something thin happening My but that Englishman's clothes were werA loud They was WIS that strong stron you jou could not sleep In the same room loom with wih em cm If It I you wanted to be waked up at 6 C o'clock all al you OU had to do 10 was WS to pin the figger t 6 to the Jacket and the Jig was as over overal Wai al he walked up to th the desk and said I I beg your our pardon but can we get accommodations here for the tho rest of ot the night 7 Jim Berry Derry him hint that was killed on Horse Creek by the rangers for or making a a. mistake In the night time and getting hold of oC the wrong halter haler was acting clerk and he lie said Eald there was not a bunk bunkIn In the house hous The Englishman looked hooked blank for a minute and the preacher man began to edge ege up closer Finally the Englishman sid said Aw v where Is th the tho proprietor Over O er there poker says ays Jim So the thc Englishman walked In to where Milt Turner and the rest was When hen the they set eyes on him the they all al went vent for tor their guns suns to take talce a shot at nt him but before th shooting Irons began talking g every Cn body hody broke out In a big laugh Which of oC you OU gentlemen Is the proprietor proprietor proprietor pro pro- of oC this place asked the En En- U I have that honor says Sf'S Turner trying to look hook lok serious Clous I I 1 get set a bed here tonight dont don't you know says SS S'S tho the Englishman while the smoke was around him as S thick as ticks on a cow Dont trouble Milt me says Mit t What will wi you take for tor this buildIng building buldIn build build- buld- buld In ing says ays the Englishman Milt Mit thought this was a joke and I he said a n. fig figger er four tour times as much a as the dad-blamed dad old place was worth The Thc Englishman hman fooled Coole around In his pocket et for Cor a a minute or so M and 1 then he brought out the mone money and counted It out In good no new greenbacks You could have knocked Milt Mit Turner over with wih a pin feather when that pia play came along abon He was as that flustered he laid down a C pat king full Cul and over o In n the pot But he was game to the bargain bargain bargain bar bar- gain and after aCer he had counted the mone money mon mon- e C ey he turned around and said to the EngI Englishman En En- gI ishman Old man the shack Is yours ours and then he gave him a n receipt receipt save A Aw I only want a bed for Cor myself mYiel and the curate said sid the Englishman You can let the other gentlemen occupy their rooms room That Tha t was how we came to know kno Aylesford He lie started In the next mornIng mornIng morning morn- morn Ing Ing as the owner of or that hotel botch hotel He made It free Cree Everybody could go so and stop top there and It didn't cost a n cent Cowboys Cowboys Cow Cow- CI boys would ride forty miles mies for th that thit t feed he used USei to give Ie on Sundays Therewa There was wa always plenty of or liquor too as he bought himself a barroom so he could have plenty of oC room to treat the boys bOs Them was as the times on the range for fair air We e used to go down to Big BS Springs s sor of or a Saturday night when the work was done and arid Big D Pete from rom the Triangle Triangle Tri Tri- angle ranch would play the accordion and Hawley from the Lazy S. S would whistle You talk about that woman whister whistler Mrs hat who made such sUh a commotion In forel foreign n parts why she was vas Just jUtt a calf beside hawley Jle Jie could make a mocking mockingbird mockingbird bird go or off and nd die of oC grief would come out anti and pat his lliS foot Coot and clap chap his hands and order the drinks that regular that erbo e everybody would forget forget for for- get Iet th the hour he went ent to sleep leep We e got sot to caln calling him the Judge because he looked booked like a Judge he had that round smooth face which belongs to a a Chief Justice of ot the Supreme court He lie was vas a lead dead game same sport at any stage of ot the pia play And Lord how he did love loveto loveto lo e to spend mone money lie He only onh took In some 2500 Ii In a month and he did his best hest to get away with wih It He drifted around from Big Bg Springs to Colorado CI City and Abilene Colorado City It was the warm place those days das There were wele M van vari variety arl arlet et ety shows hos ho's some ome 20 barrooms and faro fare banks a few stores and one church Cowpunchers from as hb high h up ns as at the U UBil Uliar liar Bar Bil ranch would come down to s get t In Inthe Inthe inthe the game ame Everybody E had n a good shootIng shootIng shooting shoot- shoot Ing Iron anti and the supply of oC lamp chimneys chum chim nes ne's and tin Un shades was plentiful I forgot to tell tel you 01 there was a couple of ot dally daily dall' dall newspapers In Colorado city It the Clipper run 1 by a n gangling tall tail tal hungry looking hooking chap from North orth Carolina aroun Caro Caro- un lina lna calling himself George Washington Washing ton Smythe Smythie This same could drink more ore liquor than any seven en men In town and ju Just t because he liked a Joke he lie run the Clipper r as S a prohibition paper when It was chock full ful o of advertisements advertise advertise- ement e- e ments ment ever every da day In the week Wai Wal Val a as asI I 1 was t saying Aylesford lesford took a liking 1 to this cuss eus and one day leaning ov over overa r a bar la says 8 to him George are tire you nl any money with wih that blood bloody paper of oC yours ours G George orge had to come to scratch cratch with wih bin hin hlf last chip and 1 say Fay h he was all ni In Wai Wal nl says Aylesford heres five ty-five hundred plunks send end the bloomin paper to 2500 5 Englishmen and let cm em sec how bow well el we are ar doing on this side He lie pulled out the money and for tor three days the the drinks were ere on George Washington He was always alwa's doing those tholo queer things thing He would give tho the coat coal oft off or his back to a a man In Inthe inthe the tho hole hola hole We e never neer did risk ask many questions tho those times but we found out the tho Judges Judge story story- He had been n a swell In London going coiner to levees and balls balA and P parties TU and H He was a top- top I and nd had been heen cut out omit of ot the tho bunch for a premium He lie was Wi milling around there one time when he lie found hl his hla wife wie had took up with wih a Prince or orsome orsome some kin to a Prince The Tho Judge says as nev never r a word dont don't go co for or his sn gun nor make nn any plays plas Funny FunO people those En English Ih I If Jf I that had happened on tho the plains there would have b been cn a funeral somewhere the the next morning But It Jt Is a L rood lod deal In lit the way a man or a aster steer ster Is bred and the Judge wasn't bruns up to fight figh with a n gun So ho he leaves leave the woman to the Prince and pulls puls out for tor the cow cow country Whenever Whenever When hen ever er e the conductor asked liked him where he was sas going he said he lie was going till til he got tred tired That's how he got off of at Big Springs and that thal trip over the Texas Pacific In Iq tho those e days wan wao enough to tire tre a a saint Anyhow he did his best to tr try and forget torset that woman He lie le bought steers nt at fancy prices and gave them away a away He bought fanc fancy dogs In Europe and gave save them to cowboys He lie had a dozen or more of fine guns brought over o as presents for Cor hl his friends That Is the kind of at a hairpin he Ile wa was If I you OU didn't see se what you wanted ask for Cor It I. I But Dut that little preacher he brou brought h along with wih him was a cuckoo He lie had hadn hada n a shack he called caled a chapel and he used to go there and anti preach to himself and pray b by himself 1 for tor the Judges Judge's foul soul The Jud Judge used d to pay the preacher man handsome and the they tell tel It out there that after the Judge died the time sky k pilot piot went vent back to the old country countr and andIs Is living on the tile Interest of ot his none mone money However anybody could see the Judge JudS I I was trying trying to forget some trial and we WI helped him forget all al we knew how We c was great on the era be beverage e In them I da days s and used to forget every even sour four our or five days The Judge Judg never liked to be beby h by iy himself He lie wanted to run In the I bunch and nd he did It It He used to keep that old hotel nt at B Big Springs Spring always full ful and nobody could pay a a cent Your bill bi was as paid before you got st there The first two or three weeks ecks the Judge was there we puts up all l kinds of Jobs Johs on him like selling the same bunch hunh of steers twice driving them thru through h the time gate over a little rise In InI inthe I he the prairie and back through the gate te again This makes one steer good od for two That was the time usual WO way to come comeI It I over oel oela a tenderfoot and many a steer brought twice a aa an much coin as he would have brought If I the man heeling and handling the buying end of or the transaction was onto hs his Job But Dut we e finds out the Judge Is corn cor fed and up to the grade gade We finds out that all al he wanted wante with wih money was as to throw It Il awa away and If it he was as pinched for Cor a n few tew hundred he didn't let on Of OC course he knew We e finds out mit Oit afterward that he was moro more cunning than an any of oC us but just let us think we was pulling a hide over his face Then we lets up on the brace game proposition What's hals the u of oC a n man who Just sits like liken n a steer with a a fever Cever and tells you ou to bring on another game cause hes he's got lots more mone money which aint never been spent Anyhow It I was Just as easy to toge get ge his mone money without the brace game as with wih It It Somehow or somehow else all al tho the ho boys fell tel In with the Judge Ho Tie told us stories about London and Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope which made mache us all al want to enlist as common sailors alors on the next cattle cattle- catte- catte ship going across He lie smoked crooked ed a a. pipe all al all Englishmen smoke a pipe pipe but but he hue never could leal learn leam to cinch a saddle addle like It ought to be he done He lie le could kill ki a abird abird bird bind at a n hundred yards off with wih a shotGun shotgun shotgun shot shot- gun but couldn't hit the tile side of a meeting house house with a Colts Its It's Is I's all allIn allIn al In the way a man has been up There Is those born for and thos born to sit on n a stool In a a office Still Sti we liked the Judge Jude and he heu u used ed to tomy say he got gt more for his money on the plains than he ever got ot In Ln- Ln Lon Lon- don lon He lIe said there was much time wasted on the start In London and lots lotsof lotsof lot of oC times Umes a man could only speak to his friends on the street streel corner while In Inthe Inthe inthe the cow country one man was as as good goodas god godas as another If IC the they was wa equally quick at getting geWn hold of nf th the guns T The Judge used to ride rid around and nd atch the boys at nt work work and talk to cm em Just the same samo a as It If he WS part of oC the There There wa was sas one C funny nn thing thinS about him bin He lie would 81 spit salt t all ata a crack crade for Cor or a n thousand pe pesos OS per pe spit hut but ut he lie wouldn't play the bank and the one or two times he got gt I lassoed Into poker bokel games he made the time limit so small mal It I took a man with wih a spyglass to s sec ce it It ew New w Orleans Ti Times Democrat a t. t 1 |