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Show niLI.S.-Wcn nil I what I read in tho ' 'Vwli-it I soo liitlior ami yon. ';l I had a funny kind of a t r I p n -' h ore two or r -' ' throe w e ok s ' vs-Vv kili Jimmy aiul r: l il1'" my little nephew . . " J 1 m in y llnl;o J: Cjt were over in Yj-.y tlie panhandle i: of Texas on the '.?-4-r Mashed O. 'yy Ranch learning '-: iy-i to be cowboys. '' Ns3i-- They were hav-, hav-, calf branding. The ranch '"'to'tlia Halsell Family, old ': :;'(ricmis of my folks and my- ' ;.. where I went a couple of "',0 and was roping calves, .' ' jug headed grey horse 1 ;.' got tangled in the rope, ... Ifand I was Jifst an inno-."Zander. inno-."Zander. And all I got out of it ;ic(i 0ft on my head. On ac-.. ac-.. of using good judgment in ',', tow to fall, why I wasent -" -V all. The old horse stampeded '"j the corral with the calf an-t an-t : . :;, :::::ia:id tore up the brand- ; '. All this time I was just -, ".'ii'ng old cut off ear marks, : rjiher amputated parts out of ; -..jr. And old dry cowpuncher, ? .."j oever saw many that wasent) :- 'Well you will sho have some-... some-... to write about now;." this time I flew out there '' ...Mjt. Flew all night and got to ' ! ' -::;0 at four o'clock in the morals mora-ls about 100 miles to the ranch, r;ata town named Muloshoe (I -se its an old Spanish name ( tome from the thing a mule on his foots.) Well I got in ' aiand lit out. I figured there r .;nt much time to sleep, so I told ' M boy "Lets get some breakfast ! ; then bit on out of town." I dident ) v tie road, but I did know the ' rtion. T irent by the restaurant to get au Mil eS3 fr out West every-, ijroudomust get Ham and eggs .Then when you get it done .jet ham and eggs again. An old , i : ad her beau, (perhaps) eating :iera too about 4.30 that morn-, morn-, -she recognized me. She had on iiiening dress, thats mighty late an evening dress in Amarillo. ' .! wanted me to join her in what k aid was a cup of coffee "That .; something In it." I told her I i.i doing mighty well on this coffee id ordered that had nothing but :".iids in it. But she swore she '.; drinking "Coffee Royal." That :.::d awful "Continental" to be sing around in Amarillo. Why i "Old Tack" never heard of :, Well anyhow she got plum ratine becaus I wouldent join ' ::. And when I said "Good Morn-as Morn-as my driver and me went out i-j turned her bare back on me and ilercd "Them actors are all they are all. swell headed, a what I gel. for s;:er.king to a ' i. He dident know a lady when : s:a one." as it got to getting daylight passed all those little frame ; -i houses on every prairie quar-' quar-' r action, (w'iere it never in the should have been plowed up) :iwsaw as many fowls of vari-i vari-i breeds trying to cross the road ol us. Chickens, turkeys, ' s?a hens. This old driver boy 'ike he took fiendish delight ;:ir!'ingto malm some of em, but ;th to my deilght he couldent a,ly ot em. We was driving ; ; Country where 36 years be-toy be-toy 18 years old I had ; ;!1 drive a bunch of cattle from y? Place to Western Kansas, .' "'we wasent a house or a in whole county. That ;!:s Ws the :':st country I . 'Tersaw in my . -35 Bat as a LI contest fy l ''a"3 stom- Ifr ) d prairie WTKf ";-s scattered ' ( V 'Sit And ) 1? y you v y 7 spo any. ) " , ''"s in the ik )yy' .'."'O-iust : f you- $ j ; t outv ot a - 1 ,'!;' wagon, and slept on the ..' a'l that spring and summer Lo tot folks went to the Klon-1 Klon-1 couldent get any further ... rm my home in the Indian -,,.p;--v'han Texas.) The limit of :-i a"i !rt" was 1 thiuk SO dol-; dol-; ,sa Well here I was 3G , ' w driving out to a ranch, to , other "Chuck Wagon", and ! 'n e(r0Phlg- A eod deal had 'more i 6Veryb0(1y 3G years. '3 ton PPeus to one person !.; tk Jnotlier. Some look bigger, 's y? n bigser t,ian uie i - at iook little that happens .oe.UlW fellow. V;;d' th!!r' no haPIier life in the 1119 cattle man. He t;, "nswith the Follies, but so ":1 from and many a sreat :S :ta" 6nd of a wagon. Mother DOt "Coffe9 Ro'al" Sytdicat,, I. |