The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 25, 1920, Page 6, Image 6
THK HEAL BUFFALO
BILL?SHOWMAN'.
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a him or a she?'
" 'She's a girl.' 1 answered as
quietly as 1 could.
" 'Kind of thought it was. Kind of
looked like it. Nlind if we sort of
dawdle around with her? Babies
ain't much of a crop out here.'
"And so they stayed and 'dawdled'
?greatv powerful children in the
baby hands of the little child that lay
on the cot. Then, one by one, they
turned and thanked me, the bartender
again wiping his hands on that
greasy apron.
" 'We're plumb sorry about making
rw ' ho arinlnp'iz.^ for the fOUTth
ilC1 V. 1 J y ilV ~ ?
or fifth time; 'we thoughten you and
Cody'd gone over to the fort. We're
plumb sorry about it. But you and
and the young 'un trot on to bed now.
There ain't no business tonight anyway,
and these fellows want to go
back to the fort. I'll set up in the barroom.'
" 'You goin' to shet down?' One of
the group asked the question as
though it were a sacrilege. The bartender
wiped his hands again.
" 'Yep,' he answered with an air of
old finality. 'I'm going to shet
down.' "
As became a frontiersman's wife, it
^ i became necessary that Mrs. Cody
learn to shoot?shoot to kill. Bill
would return from sojourning in far
places, and, as we read:
"Then would follow glorious, hap*
py days in which he would put a sidesaddle
on his favorite horse, Brigham,
and w? would ride far out into the
;
prairie. Then Will would bring-forth
his heavy, cumbersome six-shooter
from its holster, and hand it to me.
" 'The next time anything happens,'
he said more than once, 'I want you
to shoot?and shoot to kill. Now, let's
see whether your aim's improving.
' Bang ov.ay!'
"Whereupon he wouia seieci n target,
which to me seemed miles away,
and with the most bland, childlike
expression, tell me to hit it.
" 'Hit that?' I would ask. 'Why,
Will, a person couHn't hit that with
a rifle, let alone a six-shooter.'
- Will's eyes would open wide, and
a halm-smile would come to his lips.
" 'Give me that gun,' would be his
answer. A swing, a sudden steadying
of the wrist, and a burst of smoke.
Then Will would- turn to me with a
courtly bow. 'Please go look at the
target,' he would ask. And invariably
th$re would be a bullet hole in its
center.
"But the same thing did not happen
when I shot. It was true that he
had taught me something of the art
in St. Louis and in Leavenworth?
but did you ever try to swing a heavy
A A thrmich the
*t uanuci S1A-OUUUIC1 IU1 VU(JU mv
air, bring it down to a level, get your
aim and pull the trigger in less than
a second? Will would not let me
shoot any other way.
" 'It's quick work out here 'in the
west,' was his constant reminder!
"'You don't shoot unless you have to
vs'
?and then you shoot quick. Now
? . try it again.'"
Gradually Mrs. Cody became ex_
pert at this sort of shooting, and then
one day her husband began more diffi,
v cult lessons:
" 'Put Arta on your lap,' he ordered.
'Now?that target over there is
an Injun. You've had to take a ride,
and just as you come home this old
Red Pepper bobs ur> on yc I want
you to spur Brigham into a gallop and
put a bullet through that old reprobate's*
head.'
.
'All at once?' I asked vaguely.
" 'Why, of course.' my husband answered
as though it were the most
natural thing in the world. 'You
know, if that Injun's out for business,
he ain't going to wait for an invita'
tion before he starts shooting. Gad!'
?he had caught the expression from
? -.*11 a/vV *-? >? a* P/~in m rt r* fl Tim P nf in CT if
<L CUliegtJ yiuicssui, auu v?a.o uaiug n
in almost every sentence?'I'll bet a
r*'
buffalo hump you can do it the first
time.'
"But Will was a bad better, I missed
the first time, the second, and consecutively
up about the hundredth,
-while Arta. laughing and clapping
her hands?yet shivering at every
* blast of the old six-shooter?called
for more. Will looked at me ruefully.
" 'I guess there's only one thing
for me to do. That's to get rich. I'll
never pay for your cartridges any
other way. Try it again.' "
So this, too, Mrs. Cody learned, and
she could hit a far target while riding
at a full gallop. One day she was
taken out to shoot buffalo with Arta
strapped to her lap. It was an exciting
experience; it preserves some of
the excitement in her story:
\ "Our horses leaped forward and
we sped to the herd. A few hundred
feet away from the bison Will sped
ahead of me and drove his horse
straight in to the mass of shaggy
beasts. They split and fled, while
WTill cut out four or five and began
to circle them toward me. Then he
waved his arm, the signal for me to
begin my hunt.
"My heart was pounding like a triphammer.
The whole world was hazy,
hazy except for those plunging buffa
WIVES OX EASY TERMS.
In Quaint Albania the Installment
Plan of Purchase is Favored.
Albania, so far as 1 am aware, is
the only country where you can buy a
wife on the installment plan, just as
you would buy a piano or an encycio
pedia or a phonograph.
It is quite true that there are plenty
of countries where women can be
purchased?in Circassia, for example,
and in China, and ;n the Solomon
group?but in those places the prospective
groom is compelled to pay
down the purchase price in cash, not
being afforded the convenience of
opening an account. In Albania, however,
such things are better done, a
partial payment on the purchase
price of the girl being paid to her
parents when the engagement takes
place, after which she is no longer
offered for sale; but is set aside, like
an article on which a deposit has been
made, until the final installment has
been paid, when she is delivered to
her future husband.
Albania is likewise the only country
that I know of where everyone
concerned becomes indignant if a
murderer is sent to prison. The relatives
of the dear departed resent it
because they feel that the judge lias i
cheated them out of their revenge,
which they probably would obtain
were the murderer at large by putting
a knife or a pistol bullet between his
shoulders. The murderer, of course,
objects to the sentence because he I
does not like imprisonment and because
he believes that he couhl escape
were he given his freedom.
If he or his friends have any mon'
ey, however, the affair is usually set- j
tied on a financial basis, the fued is
called off, the murderer is pardoned,
and everyone concerned, save only
the dead man, is as pleased and
friendly as though nothing had ever
happened to interrupt their friendly
relations. A quaint people, the Albanians.?Scribners.
Infernal Accident.
Griggs?"When I don't catch the
ed name of the person I've been introduced
to, I ask if it's spelled with
an 'e' or an 'i.' It generally works,
too."
Briggs?"I used to try that dodge
myself until I was introduced to a
young lady at a party. When I put
the question about the 'e' or T she
flushed angrily and wouldn't speak
the whole evening."
"What was her name?"
"I found out later it was?Hill."?
I^ondon Tit-Bits.
lo, upon which my every attention
was centered. I knew what to, do?
Will was on the opposite of the beast,
his rifle ready for an instant shot
should anything go wrong, his horse
keeping pace with the fleeing animals,
his eyes watching their every movement.
I gave the word to Brigham
and while Arta, strapped to my lap,
laughed and gurgled and clapped her
little hands, we galloped forward.
One great, heavy, humped buffalo had
moved out a few yards from the rest
of the stragglers, and Will waved an
arm for me to indicate that this was
the one I should down. I turned
Brigham toward him, and the chase
began.
"For nearly a mile we raced, gradually
cutting down the distance between
the buffalo and myself. Then
slowly we began to overtake him.
Only a few rods separated us, and I
raised my revolver as though to fire.
But Will anxiously waved me down.
"'Closer!' I could not hear the
word but I could see his lips as he
framed it. Even old Brigham seemed
to understand that I was about to i
make a mistake, for he suddenly
plunged forward with a new speed,
cutting down the distance between
the speeding bison and myself. Soon
the distance was cut in two. Now to
a third. Again I raised my revolver,
and this time Will did not object.
There was a puff of smoke, the boom.ing
of the heavy gun, and then?
"Then, with a thrill that I never
again shall know, I saw the buffalo
stumble, stagger a second, and fall
headlong. From behind came a wild
sound and I saw Will standing in his
stirrups and whooping like a wild
Indian.
" 'You've got him, mama.' he
shouted. 'I knew you could do it?
knew it all the time.' "
Buffalo Bill's life was crowded to
thp full with fjrivpntnrA nnrl hp liverl
j to see himself bocome a national figure,
idol of the youth, and the admiration
of his compeers. He wandered
finally to the stage, and from there to
showdom. His Wild West Show was
a piece of realism from his early days.
He went to Eur.ope and became a
friend of kings. He held four at one
time, all in a stage-coach parading
around the sawdust arena while Indians
were war-whooping about. He
sleeps now on top of Mount Lookout,
from where the visitor to his grave
can look down into four states and
into the territory he helped open to a
people.
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NOTICE OP FINAL DISCHARGE.
Notice is hereby given that 1 will
on the 26th day of March, 1920, file
my final account with the probate
court for Bamberg county, and will
on said date apply to the said court
for letters dismissory as administratrix
of the estate of S. H. Counts, with
the will annexed.
PEARL COt'XTS,
Administratrix with the Will Attached
of the Estate of S. H. Counts.
Deceased. o-2,">
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