Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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.Az ima M1 umm IWIQIQIZIIZIIIII '21 Wu p 31 'E L .. ' A :Q iii J Yi i HAIP I . L f .ffl-li. 3.22 .QFSIT 34.321, AN OLD TYIVIE YARN By Wayne Brinkerhoff, '35 E SAY ye want ta hear a lnjun story? Wall, l ain't adoin' nothin' right now, so l guess maybe ye'd like ta hear about Baldy Ackerson, would ye? Wall, 'twas nigh onta sixty summers ago, when l was a strappin' young feller, 'bout twenty-seven years old, an' Baldy was my wagon mate. l-le was close ta forty-five then, an the top of his head as bald as a hen's egg, but he had the bushiest mustache an' eye- brows as l've ever seed, an' they was black as coal! l-lis cheeks was fat an chubby an' rosy, like a baby's. Baldy was a little teller, 'bout five feet three, but he weighed 'bout two hundred and ten pounds. Bein' somewhat of a dandy, he always wore a black sombrero an' a broadcloth shirt an' a doeskin vest with brass buttons on it, an' his pants were tucked in a pair of calfskin boots that was always shined. l-le was a jolly partner, always talkin' 'bout New York Che claimed he come from theref, and the swell team an' bug- gy he usta have. l-le wasn't scairt o' noth- in' except one thing. He could trade bullets with the best of 'em an' flinch, and once l seed him start, whirl, YICVCI' an' pull his gun at the same time, an' blow the head off a rattler not four feet from him an' never even sweat. But if you mentioned lnjuns an' scalpin', he'd sweat cold sweat, turn pale an' groan, lovin'ly rubbin' his head all the time. fscared 0' bein' scalped, ye see., Wall, we was crossin' what's now Kan- sas an' there was only five wagons in our train. It was close ta sundown so we pulled up an' stopped at a place where tha sage brush was a little thinner than the rest. We had enough water for a coupla days or so, so that didn't worry us. There was sixteen men in the train an' no women cause it was a supply train, carryin' only pots an' tin pans, cloth, needles, an' such for the settlements fur- ther west. We drew tha wagons inta a circle an' made our fire in tha center. After supper ,lake Slanders was a- thrummin' his guitar an' singin' kinda' melancholy like an' we all felt homesick- ness gnawin' at our innards. Tears, even, were in some 0' the feller's eyes. Even Baldy was quiet. Have you ever been out on the plains at night, son? No? Then you can't realize how we felt. There was a full moon out, makin' things most as light as day, but when the fire died down, it seemed to pull darkness down around us an' the strummin' o' the guitar seemed to make the silence deader. The wind was a-moanin' an a-sighin' like a lost soul fmaybe it wasl, an' shivers chased themselves up an' down my spine as thoughts of death an' such went through my mind. Then we all was froze in our tracks by a bloodcurdlin' yell that seemed to come from everywhere. We all dived for our guns but one, Baldy. l had a glimpse of his clinched, fat hands, his wide, staring eyes, his white face, an' gaping mouth. l-le looked almost pitiful. l didnlt have much time to look at Baldy then. l grabbed my gun an' Hoppecl under a wagon an' began firin' at clumps of sagebrush that moved. The camp was Twenty-Eve

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