Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — Compelled to Lick a Girl’s Shoes. [ARTICLE]

Compelled to Lick a Girl’s Shoes.

Kansu City Times. An incident illustrating the gallantry of frontiersmen toward women is related of William Porter, better known as Comanche Bill, Gen. Terry’s favorite scout. It happened in Wichita a few weeks since. Bill rode into town, dressed jn a complete suit of buckskin and with a gang of honest rangers at bis back. As he went along

he a*v a “counter-jumper ” aa he wm pleased to call him, roughly catch a and solicit her attention. The girl withdrew her arm angrily and just thien the scene Ml under Bill’s person* al nspection. ••She was a poor giri.” says Bill, ••and plainly clad in an old drees, but I was not going to see her insulted by no darned ••counterhopper,” under my mountain eyes. I jest Jumped down from my hoes, and I called for that fellow to stop. He didn’t seem to want to, but I made him stop. I took up the little girl in my arms and sat her down on a box. I took off her shoes and said to the counter-jumper: ‘Now I want you to get down and lick the dust off that poor girl’s fleet, whom you have insulted.’ ••And I made him do it. He looked down in the muzzle of a 45-calibre Colt’s for Just half a minute, and then Tie came to his milk like a little lamb. “And J made him lick that girl’s feet, though a big crowd gathered around, but I had all my men with me, and did not care whether they liked It or net”