Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 24, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 December 1874 — Page 7

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

T0'M0RB0M: BY i.

W. C.

Tho* ele^dtw»re*e«KW, Wbr should we trt«^wB»o|r Twill soon anAln be bright,

The sun wiSshine to-mcnrow. gaip|| E'en thus, InM euro and strilte* WlUJoyauccoedtosoim.w Mind not the storms of life, s,.

The sun will

shine to-morrow.

[Overland Monthly.]

Shackle-Foot Sam.

He bad one leg shorter than thesofchV, and he stepped with a hitch, and a twist of the shorter leg. He was a tall, goodlooklng, good-natured man, about twen-ty-seven years of age but his good nature was not of that sort which "sufferetb all things." On the contrary, while he would stand almost any ehaff or nick* name from hi* fellows, an attempt to patronize him, or as he phrased it, "put on dog over him," brought out tho bitter word, soon to be followed, if necessary, by the more bitter Mow, the knife, or the revolver.

He gave himself the name by which he was best known. On© night, when be was brushing himself up before the looklng-gla --. attend a memorable dance) Mo:. ina, some one said to him, as he stood on his long leg before the mirror*.

Hello, Sam! going to the dancer' You bet vour bottom dollar. May be you think! can't dance t"

Certainly, you can dance—why not?" «»Wall, some think* as a feller can't dance, if his legs ain't the same length: but when I git onto a dance-floor, with a neat-steppin' gal, I can jest make this old shackle-foot git up and spin!" said he, swinging his short leg back and forth as be spoke. "Canyou wait*?"

Waif, that does git me a little—to do it neat but, if the gal's a good one, lean swing round mighty lively, for a shaeklefbotedl cuss." 'Hios, by often referring to his own infirmity, he became known as "ahackle-

^Iteverat of uiMrcre Stk in. a prefipecttng trip in sooth-eastern Nevada, and Sam was of the party.

Tho mountains in this part of Nevada, as is now well known, are either dry and loose on the Burlkee, or dry and solid naked rook—at all events, whatever else* these mountains may be. they are usually dry and the foot-hills, which lead from the valleys to these mountains are also dry-^dry aa powder—during moafc of the twelve months of every year. Yet, while this is commonly the condition of the mountains and fiwt-bitts, there are, during some winters, deep snows, and during some siimnHifra, terrible daah% of rain—perfect cloadbtsr*tHf end the water ftom these snows anfl rains, in tbeeourse of centuries. baa cut tho mountains into canons and plowed the foot-hills with long, dry, sandbedded washes. Tho ridges between these drv washes are dotted ever with a few tree* of the short nut-pine and the apvawllng laniper, and covered more thickly wfth the aromatic bitter Indian •wormwood, or black sage, mingled with bowlders and loose fragmeats of rock.

The Ibot-hills and the mountains are not pleasant riding-ground for any sort of conveyance, nar even prartleable for any bat a steady horse, nmle, or Jackasa therefore, we were all walking toward oarapt roan# the curved skfe of a sleep, loose snrfeee of moun-

'"ehackle-lbol Sam wsain front of the line of Ave persona, walking and talking as If the slippery side-bill was got troubling W« fe flwlenti while tke nut of o» were atrn«?llng along, now sliding out of line with the movement of tbe loose, ilat, small stones, and now climbing, by clinging to the sage-brush, bade into line. Our leader, ahead by a few steps, called oat, as he turned facing on, boys! T*tn hungry a wolf, and it's a good ways to camp yit," "O, yea! Mighty easy to say," "Come on!'—but everybody ain't like

•«Ot you mean that my short leg is uphill, this time. Bo* you're mistaken if you nave any idea that I wan cut eat lor this style."

Wasn't ytm bom that way Not much 1" said Sam, w» he tradnd along to good humor. "Not, much 1 waa launched Jeet the jmrtyeat pattern in Ave counties in old Indtanner. I ll bet my old ma'am ia tellin' it till yet, if sh«Hi alive—God bleea her 1—what a party baby I was." rn

tell ye, wfcea w» 0t to «amp*nd

git some jprab—oossa on, fc6jsl-««t

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into the I ereepe fromthe high snowy summit, lay pgr blanket af4dl«. aadcookingntett. "Tier© we are, borer said Sum, with aJmadMef dry

M*abWt4ARiab."••Sow*-

body give me a match, and well bare some nuppwr in cm time. bacon—«d whi|e we *o after thia hash aome o* tbe raato* yotfd better see where the stock la.w He blew up the OfHfl It aaawetvd with a bhUMf then, taking

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with the pot filled, iMdy far boillpg the. ttnlTeraal dMmttok ., mM w» tim, "W y'^er

Doc," he a IfeelUmAt* rm~*nw#.n

pl|- The man In the i**mn

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tke **&-+> derVbt a

Wan UMre^l tha llo«tr in and the salt the pm£pom can (it the floor mat. Ym a bread, and DM and nWU git a wewd make a jolly^fire wiu» aanper. The old iMCt, tired

-I Tha* ifper, In a a well^nli^ ntetfllM wonki ha« WMM»a feUnn Wt e*»«*w aari the ^e« air eawMMmd mtwo whhsh n«(le» "aad** breadTabOe bacon, aad Uii

t- m«d to hem the "dee*-! HgW—oa w*nt the tm

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Wall. to bejfin I came to California wbeirl waa a chuck of a boy, and (fee tost job I got hold

of was herdin'

Waug

stock on the Waugh-keen plains, along with a lot e' Spaniards. Old Manuel took a likin' to me— showed me how to throw a rope and ride a broncho, liked it, and «ot so well up to it that I was kind o' bashful without a how under me and the more he showed th« devil in him, the tnore I loved him Mftnoel leashed me all th3 fknoy tricks such as inakin' aad lightin* a cigarette, while yonrhoes is tryin' to git off by jurupln' stiff-legged like a buck: or keepdollars between your shoe-solaa

lUUI^IU »kU4-i«H in' half-dollars between aad the stirrups, till the noes weaw him self out buckin'."

Vy," asks Dutch Pete, "how you git dam half-dollars in dem stirrup* Dat vot I likes to know."

There! you see, I was afraid you wouldn't aabe. When a broncho is lassed, he fei fust choked down, then a hackamore'is put on him. Knew what a hackamore Is, Pete?"

No, I Udu't." "Wall, a hackamore is a Spanish halter, that is made so as to slip whew a rider pulls on it, and draws a how's noatrils together and shets his wind off.

It's a jaguunn," said the old man "an Invention of the Moorish Arabs." "Then," eoutinued Sam, "he is blindfolded with a leather blinder, and allowed t° git up. As long as the blinder is on him, he will stand still to be saddled and fairly mounted then, when tbe rider is fixed In his seat, the blind Is raised, and the tun commences. While the blinder is over the boss's eyes, the half dollars are put in the stirrups: and, on a real devilish boas, a fellow has to look sharp if he keeps them there. 1 ken' on at the business as I growed up ana got stronger, until I thought I was about asgooaa buckayro [vaywero] as ever swung a lass-rope at a rodero [rodeo], "I went to all the rodcroa I could git away to go to, and rode for fun or money. Once, I bet twenty dollars with a miner that I could ride a mule he had, for fifteen minutes, without gittin' ofl him. Stakes put up, and I mounted Mr. Mule. Wall, that mule did everything but fell backward. He jumped, bucked, kicked, bit, run backward, and at last laid down and rolled. But I stuck by. I was on top, whatever side was up. Then he got stubborn and laid still, and wouldn't git up. So I jest sot there till my time was out, and took the coin. "I tell you these things—and I kin prove theui—toshow you that I was a

purty good rider. I liked the business, and! liked California but one day a man came down from Nevada, and bought the herd—hosses, brandin'-irons, and all, and brought tlie whole outfit over the Sierras into the sage-brush. Old Manuel and me come with him and I staid with him, titt I got my ridin' spilt by this leg. Old Manuel went back the fust winter. Snow and sagebrush didn't suit bis taste. But I got along fust-rate with the boss, and he made me boss No. 2.

One day he says to me,' Sam, there's a lot of our big ftears that! eeeaee a

says I,

4but

we haven't got a boss fit to

go up there it'^a mighty rocky place, you know, and there's none of our stock that's shod but your mare and Lightnia' 'Well, riae Lightnin',' sayB he.

Hell break his fool neck, up there,' says 'Let him break it, then,' says the boas for be was no slouch on a hoes himself, and set '©m deep, for an old man. 'All right,' says I 'lightnin' goea.'

(Jiow,

this boss Lightnin' was

ar^fcM$yr said Pete. "A hoas grassy! Mine Got Yea, craxy. A regular ravin, maniac ef a hosk if ever there was one. He was afraid o' hia own shadow, and everything else but a oow or a steer. .But he was a good one to go, and he conkl stop at full speed, and turn quicker than a flash. But yoti couldn't git near him, if he wasn't blinded nor git off o' him without danger, if lie could see you. If you put any sort o' bits in bis mouth, he would rare up and tall bade with his rider. But put a hackamore on him, saddle, mount, start up a wild steer, aud Lightuin' would follow him a-fiyin ,and stay with him, over anything and everything, till the steer was leased and let go agin. That's the sort o' boas Lightnin' was! He had jest that one sensible pint about him—what they call aminny-ma-niac, I reckon."

Yea, an inverted one," said the old mam, I knew for sure that bell would pop, if went up in the brush, and rocks, and gulches with lightnin" but there was no show to go oack on It* 'cause if I dldnt go, the eld man would look at me ail if was a yaller dof,and jest take the feMMn and go along by himaelf. He was a good old man, bat a little ha»L Wall I got ready with my boas, and lass-rope and canteen o* water. Aa I was puttin' my foot in the stirrup, I says to tbe boss

So-long. If you dant aee me agfn soon, yo« jest say I'm Struct by light-

me, aa I lit in the saddle and throwed up the blinder. I felt in my bones what he attiant, few* was flyin' away as feat as one hoaa eenld make time with one mm, aedght be a Joke, bat the boss want much on the joke, I was hot— fitin* hot. 'I—n yon and your fool hoas!' SMys I, vritUn' any teeth and sendin, tbe (oWOls Mnto poor Lightnin'. You'd

dMBtotm, I'm net, snd never waa. to my aouanfoae o' the kind that M«ys hoelong, whetii I'm ia the wrong. Ss 1 aoeaixafftded that it waa not the critter's fealt. He hadat said or done nothin'

ww—poor old boy says rwttin' him en tho seek. I inighi jeai well pat tbe atooiee-atadk of a looomotive, a^n1%. tlawn te Vtotefes# ariHi Iwdlen bake on a greaatMl tail. Me wa* no family hoas $m ytoik! If I hadnt been headed up hm. Id been a gone fi»wnakin enrerthe first rsefo* rock-capoppln'a. "So iong aa ba mm the up grada*

and bowlders in the whale range* aad it would be a mighty short time, if aome-

tie, If anything «M* the down gradeawm, my like a br^ht fhllin' star. I took a gwod-by

went the

a ^rall and a Mf&dirfc Km ibeirlKimea inthetreea. tm and «i«t HM 4piMUn' d»vii ««id«r nw while I wa» wria* te fl»e wrtt and jflntHmftisorit

'-^Taie^i' ir*n te «t my a^n, aad could 2... rid! ..v- Ur ^^W^Uinpaes thebatttokaiwAat ih

we were

(Wtniiift near the eattla. I atabbed the Uvrnf- iBMnrai mII that JwwmtSrf

TERRE HAUTE SATURT)AY -EVENING MAIL.

soon git bis second wind and then goodby, if he got near a steer that would run, We etruoka spot where tto trees were only a few, on smooth ground. I reached out my hand to bU ears, ana dropped the blinder over his eyes. O course, he snade two or three crooked jumpa, and stopped stiff-legged aa a four-legged wasb-ocnch. 'O-u-p-h! says I, as I dropped off 'I wish I waa home!

Yah, und wouldn't gone home, ^ost as straight like a afelplMe

Wall, I rubbed my eyes, and^rospected my lieaty for damages—pretty bad scratches, but ne great itgurv. Canteen gone, and no water—smch loose, and hoss iu a foam. You know what a sine!) is, do you, Pete?" "Yah! Dot big pelly-pandt, maidt out mit hairs und two iron rinks." "Jest so. Wall, I rested a aiinute—no use restin' long, for I knowed hell was bilin' in that hoas—ami ainclied him up tight. Mounted, lilted the blinder, headed for the cattle, and away we went. I tried to swing him round the stock and 1 would have done it, if an infernal big, mouse-colored, long-honied, long-leg-ged Mexican steer hadn't raised his wild head and tall, and struck in In front of us. 'Samuel,' says I to myself, very solemnly, 'it's time for prayers!' And I tried it on, but I got mixed, in tbe excitement, and made some bad breaks and llie steer fell over a brush-heap, without stoppin', and Lightnin' after him, on knees and nose, also without stoppin'. The excitement ruptured my religious services so that I couldn't connect-—and away we clattered. It was gittin mighty interestin'. That steer was fresh and knowed the range for twenty miles, over foot-hills and gulches, upgrade and down and Lightnin' froze to him, fiank and shoulder, step and step, till the pair looked like two wild demons off on a spree. Turn and turn, over and under the scraggy brush, down banks and up, this way and that, and quick as thought. They kep' time so true to each other, that I minded afterward sayin' to myself what I heeard in the theayter once:

Two souls with bat a single thought, Two hearts what beats as one.' And jest then I noticed the stoer gain on us very sudden, and I see the white end o' his tail go out o' sight, like a meetor behind the hills. 'Precipice, by says I and then I didn't know nothin'.

After awhile, I don't know how long —but not, long, though—I felt mighty coenfortablo and sleepy-like, but sort o' chilly and I was a dreamln' o' coastin' down hill, with all the old home schoolDoys, on sleds In the snow. 'Whoopee! 6k It, boys,' says I. 'Keep the railroad a-goin', and let's git warm. It's adernedcold night!' And then I laughed, because I see big Sandy MbClaklan go heels over appetite down the track, slldin' on his lip—and his sled after him and the laughln' warmed me, Mid I woke up. Wall, I stretched my arms, and opened my eyes then shet 'em agin mighty quick, for the big, round, afternoon Nevada sun was too many for 'em. Then I went back over tbe ground to camp, and brought all the fhcts up to the last sight I had o' that wild steer's tail goin' over the cliff. Then I begun to feel sick but I heerd a snufflin' kind o' groanin'somewberos close by. 'That's old Lightnin',' says I, and I went to sleep agin' the purtyest kind. I remember saysn' to myself, 'If this is dyin', it's the downiest sort of a send-off.' I waked up agin, and opened my eyes the sun was behind the hill-tops, and I was cold as a clam.

I rubl»ed my bands together like dry biscuits, and listened—all still, but the crickets. I moved one leg—all right! Then I tried the other leg—no go! Then I looked around, and leaned upon one elbow for I was down on my side. I was below a forty or fifty-foot precipice, in the sand-wash, among bowlders quartzite as big as mules, and thick as punkins on rich ground in October. I was on one side of a big bowlder, and I could sec, stretchin' past the other side, poor eld Lightnin's head, with his eyes glazed over, and the blood oozin' out o' nls nose: about ten feet oft was the steer, lyin* on his side, with his eyes movin' and his tongue out—moanirr about once in ten minutes. 'Wall,' says I, 'this train's off the track and down the bank, in a general average smash-up. Verdic' —nobody to blame.' But my leg begun to acheiike a whole set o' teeth, and I knowed I had to git out o' that somehow, or somehow else. 'Down the wash,' says I, 'in the sand, I'd crawl, If I waa headed that way but I'm not headed that way.' Then, says I, after I'd thought and groaned awhile, 'There's nobody hoidhryou—you're boas o' this contract,' So I sqrowed round in the sand on my elbows, like a wounded sarplent, and started. I went about ten feet—weakened on it, and passed into another o' them sweet little sleeps. Woke up agin, and reckoned up my progress. Umph! ten feet, about. Wall, ton feet beats a dead man,' says I, and started up agin, erawlin' in the aandw»*b. It WM bully sand to crawl In dry and nioe-*lf I'd been good on the crawl. This time I got on fust-rate for a new hand. I must have made as much as a hundred feet,or over but I couldn't tell, because o' the bowlders and a bend tntbewaik.

I knowed it must be about four miles to where the Pahranagat road crossed this wash down In the valley, and to that place 1 waa bound to go, or die awlggiin for it. I begun to warm up a tittle, Inutde o* my clothes, and moved on. But I hadn't gone fkr.wben I heerd dose by and in front of me, that 'whia-aer-loer-iMter-isMS"*!' that means pixen. •Down brakes!' aay* I, 'because this train can't back.' Throwed a handful o' sand over tbe brush ahead o* mc—'whix-aer-htiter-iraer I' «ay* Ifae anake. Hiitf' says I, and throwed more sand Mid he came out into the wash ahead o* me. and rami his head up. I rared my bead aa. We looked at each othef,and tried to look aa pisenas he did. 'Wblwar-itaer-iaK&r!' says he, awayin' bis head from side to skie, with hi* neck bowed up and his tongue forkin.' 'Yoabed—dj' says I bat I missed hint with tbe rock Ithiowed. Before I oould git another rock ha moved offoutoi tbe waah. to the right-hand side, still a-ringin' the bell ia his back-actloau I showered sand tt him ttl|» 1 cduk! jbear no more o' piaen no**, and tfcfto I moved on.

IdidnH feel the paid in my broken any more for along time after I fust heard that snake, because I waa move Interested In tatties* than I was in the

roc, aa a warnin' toanakea. tornr, midnight—aft»«* at aftor it—wben I got to the toad. O. wasn't Idry in the month, though—and Dore all Over! eoesatwA I—It must have been some o* them old fellem wlwMyiioten naed to aee «t borne, ia MWsSook

Mkrhn% ^.Wallj'aaya 1, wkea 1 landed la the „4Hj, *bwr* we are but this ain't no, fuel ulasri hntnt If som'n dont come aotxa, we might as w^ll have stay-

gitUn' out, ylt either as ftart.inan In a, mncml, or ^iff oratof a«t a hmtgln'— snything's better baa dyin'without ao4«4v.' rolled ovw on my bseS In the 1. to glv,' )iy fir ar»n- a bat

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it waa terrible, work, gittin' the game leg turned. And there I laid, lookln* up at the stars and Hstenln' to a BOIemn old owl, till I fell into a mean Sort c' sleep, from whieh I waked up celd and shtveriu'. "Hiia road was broken through the sage-brush, and right where it crossed the wash the brush was high and strong —about, tbe biggeet sage-brush I ever saw but as wtge don't grow close enough together for the fire to run through it, I couldn't set afire at tbe aide of the road, and follow it up before the night wind toward camp, as I allowed to. But a fire I must have, o' some sort. So I drew myself up in sitUn' fashion,on one hip. I didn't git up the fttst time I tried nor for a good many times but I made it at last, though. Moat any change o' iHMBali was a comfort, when Pd got over the aches o' makin' it. I bunted through my pockets, and f^und a lew matcl ei that had been there a long time—there was plenty in my canlincus on the saddle—and scmtchln' one to a light, I carefully fired a big dry saga. Thon I had a fire, and was at home—as long as it lasted: but it didn't last long. It was aboat to go out, and I tossed a brand of it into the next sage, and gittin' over and down on my elbows agin, I crawled along the road after it. And so I worked on till sunrise and at sunrise, I went to sleep, like a snake, in my own trail. I would have jined church for a drink, or half a drink, o' water and I knowed there Was a big spring down In the middle o' the valley, about two miles away. But I knowed, just as well, that I could never crawl there and back, over the brush and that anyhow it would be mighty unhealthy for me around that spring, when tbe cattle came to water.

I was sleepin', or tryin' to sleep, when I thought I heard- some one talkin'. Not right off I dldnt jump up but with all the soonness I waa boss ofl stood as nigh on one end as I oould git, and listened. 'Bully for me 1 It's Injuns—Shoshonee squaws,' I said. Then I listened a little more, and hollered: •Hello-o! Sequaw! Kim-ma! Me— one Whito-a-man—heap sick.' I listened agin—all silent. Jest as I was about to give a desperate'howl, I heerd, 'Hoo-. ee-ah!' I answered 'Hoo-ee! Kim-ma! —mo a head—h-e-a-p sick.' Then I waited till the squaws—three of 'emcame trampin' through tbe brush, into the open road, each with a willow-work bottle o' water on her hack. 'Water— me heap now ketch 'em—quick!' I said to the one in front, and reached out my hands, like you do for a baby. She swung the bottle down off her back, and helped to hold it for me, while I swallowed the best drink, and the biggest, that I ever tasted.

I got the squaws to go for the old man and the old man came In a wagon forme. I laid in bed sixteen weeks.and came out with a pair o' crutches and the name o' Shaoklefoot Sam." %[r

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