Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — GRIM COW-BUY HUMOR. [ARTICLE]

GRIM COW-BUY HUMOR.

Stories of “Wild Jack,” Wire Was Fond ofa Joke. " . t* Kansas Cfty 3 utr. - ■■ “You fellows have all heard of ‘Wild Jack’ Booth, one of the best cowpunchers that ever slept out doois. Jack has peculiar ideas of fun. “One day Jack lassoed a big leaver wolf and started ms pony on a dead ran toward camp. One al the boys saw the procession approaching, and, thinking something was wrong, started out with a Winchester. The. reinforcement gnta wrong impression of the situation, and casting his gun to tiie ground started toward camp with a wild yell of terror. He thought the wolf was chasing Jaek having overlooked the lariat Jaek caught onto the mistake* at once and turned his pony toward the fleeing cowboy. When the pony came np alongside Jack yelled: “ ‘Run, yer son of a gun. De wolf’s a-gainin’.” •, “Then the pony darted ahead and Jack brought the dead wolf close to| ths scudding cow-puncher, who by this time had seen the lariat, and dropped to the ground in sheer exhaustion, tos weak, even, to pull his six shooter and get even with Jack,who was rolling over the prairie a few yards away convulsed with laughter. . “One time, down in Texas, Jim Cushing and a companion threw a lasso around a wild-cat, took a turn around a wild p.um tree, and proceeded to make the animal a close captive. The two forced the cat into one of Jim’s leather leggins and tied it securely fore and aft. Camp was twenty miles away, bat the boys, confident of plenty of fu», lugged it clear in. After supper every man in camp, about thirty in all, took his six-shooter and formed a dottbls line. The cat was released from ths leather prison and started down ths line. It struck a dog trot aud showed no inclination whatever to hurry. Thrss minutes later a more disgusted band sf cow-boys could not be found in all ths Southwest, for the cat? had not been hit, and before he disappeared in the underbrusn turned around and showed his teeth to the bad marksmen in a sarsasticsnarl.” : ; ~ V;: