The Union Pacific Railroad by Charles Godfrey Leland

Author:Charles Godfrey Leland [Leland, Charles Godfrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travelogues
ISBN: 9783849622718
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2012-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

On the morn it was clear and cold—as it seemed to me, never colder, when the Tribune kindly poured out freezing water, little by little, from a tin cup for the Press to wash itself by—we had no other way to perform our ablutions, and were thankful for even this small amount of wash. When a man has not had a bath for a week he is fit to sleep with mules; ten days of such a state inspires him to steal a horse or shoot an Indian ; after two weeks, I am told, ho votes the Democratic ticket and poisons his grandmother. "We wanted to buy some hay and corn at this ranche, but the hostlers are strictly forbidden to sell any forage, and our note from Gillespie was not thought sufficient to cover the case. 'But if you will take it forcibly/ said the head man,' I guess your party is the strongest.' So we took it with most fierce aud ruffianly countenances, paid for it, shook hands all round, and rode away." This is the cool and joyous manner in which the Tribune describes an outrage of which its correspondent was guilty at this place. The attention of the authorities is respectfully called to this occurrence.

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