Show New York by Camp Fire Light ByOD Henry Copyright 1020 by bT The Vh Wheeler el r Inc WAY WAT out in the Creek Crack Nation A we learned things about New York v S. We Vo were on a hunting trip and nd were camped one night on the bank of ot a little stream Bud Kingsbury was our skilled hunter and guide and it Jt was from his lips that we wo had explanations lions Hans of or Manhattan and the queer folks that inhabit It Bud Dud had once spent a month In the metropolis and a l week weck I or two at other times and ho he was pleased to discourse to us of or what he had seen I t Fifty Fitly yards away from our camp was pitched the tho teepee of or a wandering tam family II of Indians Indian that had come como up and settled d there for the tho night An old old Indian woman oman was trying to build a afire afire fire tiro under an iron pot hung bunS upon three sticks Bud Dud went over to her and soon had her fire going coinS When he came back wo we complimented him playfully upon his gallantry Oh said Bud dont mention It It Its It's s a way I have ha Whenever er I see a alady alady lady trying to cook things in a pot and having trouble I always go 0 to tho the rescue I done the same thin thing once in ina ina a n. toned high house In New York City Heap bl hi society teepee on Fifth Firth Avenue Aye Ave nue ue That Injun lady kind of ot recalled it to m my mind Yes I endeavors to be bo I polite and help the ladles ladies out The camp demanded the particulars I I was manager of the Triangle le B 13 Branch Branch ranch In the Panhandle said Bud It was owned at nt that time by old man manSt St Sterling of or New York Ho He wanted to sell out and he ho wrote for me mc to come comein en in to Now New York and explain the ranch to tho the that wanted to buy bu So I sends to Fort Worth and has hns a n fort forty dollar suit sull of ot clothes made and hits the tho trail tran for the big Ill village a J e. e Well when T I got there thoro old man Sterling and his outfit certainly laid themselves out to ho bo agreeable We Ye had hd business and pleasure so mixed up that you ou couldn't tell It was a trent treat or a trade trado half halt the time We had trolley rides and cl cigars tr and theatre and rubber parties n Rubber parties 7 said a listener inquiringly Sure said ald Bud Dud vou you never attend em cm You walk around round and try to tn look at the tops of the skyscrapers Well Yell we sold flold ran h. h and md old man Sterling asks me round to tn his hla house to tiki tak gnu grub on tIm night b before fore I started 11 back aek It wasn't no any collared high a- a f.- f. Just fair lr Just me and the old mand and an his wife and nil au daughter hr But nut they was a ha re l outfit all right an and the lillIs lillI's of tn tho fleM wasn't wat In It made mv my Fort Worth clothe clothes carpenter look lige e a dealer denIer In horse blankets and gee strings And then the table Jable was all pompous with flowers and there was a whole kit of ot tools In laid lart lei out bo- bo Irlo l' l plate te You'd havo o thought you was W fixed out nut to burglarize burglar burlar- ize a a restaurant before you ou could get et your grub rub But Dill Id I'd been In New York over a Il week wok then and I I J was getting on onto onto onto to stylish was war I 1 kind n of trailed be behind behind be- be hind arid ad watched the others other use th the h hardware and then them I the chuck the same weapons It aint much trouble to travel with the hl high flyer h after aCter vou you find out their gait palt I T got Jol alone LIane fine tIne I was feeling cool ard Y and pretty soon I Iwas Iwas Iwas was away awny fluent as yau U i please nl tJI about Ii ranch ami ani th the tho Vest and telling cm em how the Indians cat eat grasshopper grasshopper grass grass- hopper slew and fin snakes k i es and you OU never taw caw people so Interested UI n But the th reM 1 Joy of or that feast feist was Waft that MI q Sterling Just a n. little trick she he wax was not nt hl bigger lr than two wo bits I worth of ot chewing but hut sh who pho had a away wa way ay her that seemed to say Bay she wai waa the tho people and you OU believed ItAmI It I And AmI vet vt t Rh she sho never put on any alrand airs and anel she sho smiled nt at me mo the same as ItI If It I 1111 a millionaire while I wo WD i t tellin t hout out a Creek do dor r tent feast t and listened like it was f news new from home Dv Uy By and by after arter we e had cat eat oysters 1 some Kome watery soup soun and truck that th never was In m my repertory a 1 Methodist preacher R In n t kind kine o of camp stove lIto Ml Ill silver liver on Jong Jane logs s with a a. limp under uner It Miss Sterlin lights up and an beins to do some ri right on nn tho the supper sup sup- per ncr fable I wondered wh why old man Sterlin didn't hire a n cook with all th the money mon he hid h Pretty Prett soon she dished out some somo cheesy truck that she said was 9 a rabbit hut but I swear there had ever w been a n Molly rolly cotton tan tall In Ina Ina In Ina a K mo O of f It The last thins thing on the wan wao I lemonade It was brought around in little flat nat glass bowls and set by your I plate I was pretty thirsty and I I picked up tip mine and took a big ewi swig of ot It RICht there wan tho the little Jadv lady hn bed l made mad a 1 mitake Sh She hid had put In tn the lemon nil cli right hut shed she'd for ot fh the sugar nr I thought maybe mayba Miss lg Sterling was Ju t 1 learning to keep hou house houM e and cook cook th that rabbit would surely ir- ir irke Uk ke vou vt think yo and so-and and I 1 says to mv myself eif Little lady Indy sugar r or no sugar Ill I'll ll stand by you vou and I raises up p my bo bowl l I aln find drinks th the l lat I t drop of the lemonade And then all the th balance In of or cm picks up liP their thel r bowl bowls and docs does tho the amo same amond And nd then I gives s J Miss Sterling the laugh lauch prop proper r Just to carry it off like lIko a Joke so she ho wouldn wouldn't t mistake l feel teel bad about tho the e After we all went Into the sitting sitting- room she sat down and talked to mo me quite awhile It It Il was so kind of ot you Mr m Kingsbury Kingsbury Kings Kings- mIt bury says she to to bring my blunder off art so 80 nicely It was so stupid of or me meto meto meto to tor forget et the sugar Never Nc you mind says I some ome his rope over a 3 lucky man will throw mighty elegant U little lc housekeeper some someday someday day not far from h here r Mr r. r It If you OU n mean me ho out lond I I hove she laughing says will be as lenient with my poor hOUSekeeping housekeeping housekeeping house house- I keeping as you OU have been I. I Any Anything Anything Dont Don't mention It it says thing thine to oblige the the ladles A. A Anthen ATU An n Bud ceased his then some Bome one asked ell nm nm what ho considered considered considered con con- I the most t ng uS and nt ent trait trail of New Kw Yorkers The most and peculiar trait I of ot New York folks answered Bud Dud is is New York Most Moat of ot cm has New Nework YorkI York ork on the brain Thes' Thes have havo heard of ot other I places such as Waco and ant Paris andI and Hot Springs and London but hut they I dont don't believe In cm em They think that tha I town Is all Merino Ierino Now to show you how much they care for their village Ill I'll tell you OU about one of e that tha strayed out a ns far tar as the D 13 while I 1 was working there This New Yorker come tome out there ther looking for a Job on the ranch t Ho said ho was a good horseback rider ride rIder and md there thero was pieces lI of at tanbark hanging hang hant ing on his clothes yet et from his riding school Well for tor a while the they put pat him t to keeping books In the ranch store etore fo for he was a devil at tl figures ures But Dut ho he go got I tired of ot that and asked for something more in tho the line lint of activity Tho The boyon boys boy boyson I on the ranch liked him all aU right buhe but bu butI I he made us tired shouting New York all the time Every night hed he'd tell toll u us about East River and J J. J P. P Morgan Mors-an am and the Eden Musee and Hetty Green an and L Central Park till we used to throw t tI Un tin UnI tinplates I I plates plattS and branding Irons at him One day this chap gets on 01 a pitchIng pitch pitch- lag Ing pony and the pony kind of ot sidle d dup up his back and went to eating grass gras 1 tho the New Yorker was coming comins down own lie Ho come down on his head hend on a hunk of at wood and he didn't show any designs ns toward getting u up again Wo Vo laid him out In a tent an anho and ho he begun to look 1001 pretty dead S So Gideon Pease saddles laddIes up and burns th the wind Ind for Doc Sleepers Sleeper's residence In thirty miles away The doctor comes over and Ind ho bo In In In- the patient Boys Dos says he he you might as we wego well go to playing up seven for tor his saddle and Ind clothes clothe for his heads head's fractured fracture and if It he lives ten minutes it will be a I remarkable case of at lon longevity Or Of course we didn't gamble for th the I POOl poor rosters roster's saddle that saddle that was wa one o ot of Docs Doc's jokes But Dul we stood around fee feeIng feelIng feel teel- Ing solemn and all of us forgive him himor for or having hA talked us ug to death about abou New YorkI York I never saw anybody about to hand handIn nan in hIS hta checks act more peaceful than tha this fellow His eyes yes were fixed WL way wa I u pin the air all and h he hI was wan using ram ram- words to himself all about sweet music and beautiful streets and white white- robed forms and he was smiling Ilk like dying was a pleasure lies Hes about gone now said Do Doc Doe Whenever they begin to think tho they thoy seo see heaven Its It's all or off Blamed If that New York man ma didn't sit Hit right up when he heard Do Dosay Doe Doc that say Say Sav Sa says S he ht kind of ot disappointed was that heaven n Confound it all I thought It was Broadway Some o of at yOu vo fellows got sot my clothes Im I'm going to get et un UD up And Ill I'll be blamed concluded Bud If It h he wasn't on th the train with a ticket for New York in his pocket four tour days das I afterward |