Show And Wal lie Jones Ccime Again Info His Own “Your arguments sound pretty good all right and anybody alive would have a hard time convincing you that thev are wrong but they are and any time after day after tomorrow you are liable to come and hunt me up and tell me that you were wrong that your ideas were entirely groundless that you are ashamed that you talked old and experienced when you didn’t know even the rudiments Still there is no use for me or any one else to try to show you the error of your way and we wouldn't be doing you any good if we succeeded You’ll have to find out for yourself and you will too All the other fools since Adam have and it won’t be pleasant to have all the fellows quoting your old time creed to you after you have renounced it so you’d better not talk so much” “Fred Lockley had your disease onl' worse because he had spent a long time elaborating the fallacy and you’re only a kid lie was naturally about the meanest cuss on the range though to start out with he was also pretty white But he kept hanging onto a lot of foolishness like that that you are trying to make yourself believe until he got so he wasn’t even white Besides this though he had a good head he was hampered by too much animal spirit and too great a love for combat When I first ran onto him he was in a fight That was about 95 while Dad still owned the cow ranch lie owned the idea too which is also the pet of most other dads that all you have to do to make a man out of a no account kid is to send him out to the ranch give him a small dray load of very costlv responsibility and let him rough it a few years This idea was my reason for being out there but I had come to like it well enough that I had quit cussing my luck and was confining my no little ability along that line to tenderfoot cow punchers On the I had had to ride the jump out of about fourteen horses every morning during the drive and the sheepherders had bluffed the measley gang nearlv off the range The Chink cook was by a long way the best man I had so I started on a long search determined to fix the conditions a little for the fall drive if I broke the company paying salaries It was this hunt that took me down to Green River and incidentally up against Fred I was walking down the street when the welcome sotinds of excitement floated out through Spring round-u- p |