Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-26 | Page 18 | The Chapion of the Weather

I 1 The Champion of the Weather By O. O Henry lt 1920 by Doubleday Page S. S Co published by special arrangement with the Wheeler Syndicate Inc If It you should speak of the Kiowa reservation reservation res rca to the average New Yorker he probably wouldn't Know whether you were referring to a new political dodge dodge at Albany or a leitmotif t from a But out in Oh the Kiowa 1 reservation sZ ti advices rd have been received concerning the existence existence ex ex- of New York A party of us were on a hunting trip in the Reservation Bud Kingsbury our guide philosopher and friend was broilIng broilIng broiling broil broil- ing antelope steaks in camp one night One of oC the party a pinkish-haired pinkish young man in a correct hunting costume sauntered sauntered sauntered over to the fire to light a cigarette and remarked carelessly to Bud Nice night Nice night Why yes said Bud as nice as any night could be that aint received the Broadway stamp of approval Now Now the tile young man was from New NewYork NewYork NewS York but the rest of oC us wondered how S Bud guessed it So when the steaks were done don we besought him to lay Hy bare Ilia hI nf f tl t inn Ann An I w was s ss s something thing of T a Territorial talking g I machine he lie made oration as follows How flow did I 1 know he was wass from NewYork New NewYork York Well Vell I 1 figured it out as soon I as ho he sprung them two words on meI me I was in New York myself a couple of ol I years ago and I noticed some of the earI earmarks ear- ear I marks and anti hoof tracks of the Rancho Manhattan Found New York rather different from I the Panhandle didn't didn t you Bud asked S one of the hunters Cant say that I 1 did answered Bud Dud not more than some The main trail in that town which they call Broadway is plenty traveled but they're about the same brand of bipeds that tramp around In Cheyenne and Amarillo At first I was sort of rattled by the I crowds but T I soon says to myself Here now Bud they're ju just t plain folks like I you and Geronimo anh and ana Grover Cleveland and the Watson Vatson boys so dont don't get all flustered UI up with consternation under your saddle blanket and then I feels calm and peaceful like I was back in inthe inthe the Nation again at a ghost dance x r a agreen agreen green corn com pow powwow wow Id been saving up for a year to give this New York a whirl I l knew new a man named Summers that lived there but I couldn't find him so I played a lone hand at enjoying the intoxicating pleasures pleas pleas- tires ures of the fed corn-fed metropolis frivolous and For Tor a while I was so by the electric lights and the noises of the phonographs and the sec sec- story ond-story railroads that I forgot one of the crying needs of my Western estern system of natural requirements I never was no hand to deny myself the pleasures of oC sociable vocal intercourse with friends and strangers Out in the Territories when I 1 meet a man I 1 never saw before inside of nine minutes I know his income religion size of collar and his wife's temper and how much he ho pays for clothes alimony and chewing tobacco Its It's a gift with me not to be penurious with my conversation But this here New York was Inaugurated inaugurated inaugurated rated on the idea of abstemiousness in regard to the parts of speech At the end nd of three weeks nobody in the tho city had fired even a blank syllable in my direction except the waiter walter in the grub emporium where I fed And as his outpourings outpourings outpourings out out- of syntax wasn't nothing but from the bill of fare he I never satisfied my yearnings which w was ws s to have somebody hit If I stood next I Ito to a man min at a bar hed he'd edge off oft and give j a Ziegler look as if it he lie suspected I me of having the North Pole concealed 1 on my person I began to wish that Id I'd gone to Abilene or Waco for my Ii for the mayor major of them places will drink I with you and the first citizen you ou meet will tell you his middle name and ask I you to take ke a chance in a raffle raffIe for a music oU I ob boxWell box I Well one day when I was particular hankering for to be bo gregarious with something more loquacious than a lamppost lamp lamppost post a fellow in a caffy says to me says he Nice day lIe He was a kind of a manager of ot the place and I 1 reckon hed he'd seen me in there a good many times Umes He had a I face like a fish and an eye like Judas but I pot got up and put one arm around his neck Pardner I sa says s 's sure o ure its it's a nice day cIa Youre You're the first gentleman in all ali New York to observe that the intricacies intricacies acles of human speech might not be al altogether altogether al- al together wasted on William Kingsbury But dont don't you think says sa I that a little cool e early in n ot the tle morning nf and arlo aint 1 there a feeling of of ofrain rain in the e air tonight But along ut noon it s sure re was i r. r Hows How's fill all up upI I 4 1 III r to the house You doing right well with 1 I the caffy now now Well WeIl sir sir that galoot just turns his hb 3