Tales from the X-bar horse camp : The blue-roan "outlaw" and other stories . pleasure in the memories of the past. Yousee, after talkin a few minutes with Pick he up and makesme an offer to go back east, where he was a runnin a showwhat were a part of a street carnival outfit and a-makinall kinds of money. He wanted me to rig up in a Mont-gomery Ward outfit, big hat, goatskin chaps, spurs angloves, with stars and fringe like them fellers in the movieoutfits gits onto em, an sort of loaf round the doorand git people excited an toll em into the show. So I hitsthe high places back to the farm, an
Tales from the X-bar horse camp : The blue-roan "outlaw" and other stories . pleasure in the memories of the past. Yousee, after talkin a few minutes with Pick he up and makesme an offer to go back east, where he was a runnin a showwhat were a part of a street carnival outfit and a-makinall kinds of money. He wanted me to rig up in a Mont-gomery Ward outfit, big hat, goatskin chaps, spurs angloves, with stars and fringe like them fellers in the movieoutfits gits onto em, an sort of loaf round the doorand git people excited an toll em into the show. So I hitsthe high places back to the farm, and tells the grangerfeller to git him a new cornstalk pusher to take my placepretty pronto. When he comes I strikes out for the placeback in Illinoy where Pick sed hed be showin an waitinfor my arrival. Pick he pays me forty beans a month, an we sleeps onour round-up beds in one of the tents. He shore had amess of plunder inside the big tent. They was a Navajosquaw weavin blankets, a couple of loafer wolves, somecoyotes, wildcats, badgers, a lot of rattlers, centipedes and. 3 zr s The Mummy from the Grand Canon 145 tarantulas, and a whole box full of them heely this, he had a lot of glass cases in which he had abunch of them stone axes, metates, mano stones, arrow-heads, and all that sort of plunder which they digs upfrom them prehistoric ruins all over this country out here. But the main drawin card he had was the mummywhich he sed he dug up somewheres out here in the GrandCanon. He had all sorts of certificates and letters to proveits genuineness, as well as photographs taken when theydug it up in the cave. One day a odd-Tookin four-eyed feller comes along,and he ses to Pick, Mought I inspect this mummy ofyourn? and Pick he ses, Shore, pardner, jist as much asyou like. You come round to-morrow mornin fore theshow begins and Ill be glad to have you look the gent over. The old boy ses hell shore be on hand, for hes power-ful interested in them prehistoric- thing
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