Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1898 — Spring Hair Cutting. [ARTICLE]

Spring Hair Cutting.

Here’s a story of old times on a big Texas cattle ranch: “The-boys that came in late from five or six months’ floating trip or sojourn in some isolated camp would have their uncut locks hanging away, down on their shoulders, and a staple entertainment was roping them to trim their hairs, in all sorts of shapes, with sheep or reaching shears. Some of them would fight like tigers and have to be roped, thrown down, and hog-tied before the deed could be doap. One fellow that had handsome hair beefed about fearful. He said he wasn't going to have no darned blacksmiths or cowpunchers cut his hair; he was going to,have a barber cut it right. And when the men got it sawed off in scollops to suit them, and gave the word to turn him loose, he. went and got his gun and pawed around considerable. We all had to get out our guns,, and it took a lot of reasoning to get him round. But when the next outfit turned up, he was in for roping and cutting hair with the best of us.”