Show ROUGHING IT OUT WEST why one broker hates half that section cotton of t thu the country it happened so long ago that id lust just as lief tell you fellows felloes now said bald the broker a as a party of them were viere taking on liquid laquil coolness cool nees at the club the new york world the doctors had told me to get out and rough it it if I 1 m wanted tinted to regain my health I 1 was as bound to give the pre a fair trial so I 1 bought ti a horse at omaha and struck out into the country about the third night I 1 put up with a frontier settler and in the morning my horse was gone tha old fellow hustled around as though the rest of his family had bad been ibur murdered notifying the deputy sheriff to take the trail with a posse and agreeing to keep the horse for me it if recaptured till my return I 1 went right for a train and pushed on further west after we had gone about thirty miles our engine broke her piston rod and lille we were waiting a wild looking yahoo came flying down the road astride of my horse I 1 didn dian t care to be detA detained tined in that sect section lon and when I 1 suggested aug that he be take a walk he thought so well of it that he left on the run 1 I took to the saddle again but hadn haan t gone tar far until I 1 was overhauled I 1 by half a dozen rough riders with sawed ott shotguns that induced me to throw up my hands bands at the first notice explanations were no go with those fellows the horse was as stolen I 1 had him and d that settled it the posse tood stood three to three for hanging me then and there but the deputy talked one of the men over they hustled me to a squire who carried two elk aix afoot ers era in his belt and a pint t f whisky under it as ae he held court he 10 rear end of a barber shop the squire couldn coulden w once me as aa a horse thief but the old fox gave me three months for stealing a saddle and bridle of course I 1 was not in an agreeable prisoner and when I 1 called the latler jailer a liar tor for pointing me out as a orse thief he cut me down to bread lid i id water for a week when I 1 repeated the offense he had a menu from the best hotel in omaha tacked up tip la in my cell to aggravate the punishment by the end of twenty days my innocence was so completely established that the squire was glad to order my release but the infernal jailer detained me when I 1 went vent to leave on IL a claim that he must communicate with the authorities his hir opinion was that if I 1 had no business there I 1 ought to pay my board I 1 settled rather than walt wait find and he charged delmonaco aratea at that I 1 1 I make you fellows a present of the west |