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place, and there were two grown
girls in the Weaver family.
These girls would assist their
father in hunting cattle and car-
ried their pistols wherever they
bWent. They had a pack of
hounds and hunted with them.
One day they found where a
panther had killed a colt belong-
ing to their father ten miles
from home, so they came to the
Williams ranch and got:~two of
Mr. Williams' daughters to go
with them to hunt the panther.
About one o'clock in the morn-
ing two of the girls came back
to get help to kill the panther
as they had found it. Mr. Wil-
liams sent Cude to help them,
giving him an old English rifle
to use. They reached the place
where the other two girls were
about day light and found they
had the panther treed. Cude dis-
mounted and took a shot at him,
the ball going through his foot
and causing him to jump for
the man .As he says, he could-
n't run for there were the four
girls all looking at him and ex-
pecting him to do something.
Finally with the help of the
dogs he managed to kill the ani-
mal by beating it over the head
with his gun.
Since it was usually many
miles to a city and skilled physi-
cians were few in this part of
the country, the mother was
the" doctor of the family; or in
some cases, some skillful old
lady was the doctor for the
whole community. Her remedies
were necessarily simple, and
many of her drugs were made
from herbs and bark of native
plants, but they were effective
and no more could be required.
The sympathies of these wo-
men extended beyond the hu-man family in some cases. Many
years ago some cowboys
brought two little orphan buf-
falo calves to Mrs. Charler
Goodnight, who now lives at
Goodnight, Texas. She took care
of them, and now has one of the
largest and most famous buffa-
lo herds in the world at the
Goodnight Ranch.
The social side of life though
not dominant, was not entirely
neglected. Community dances
have been described in various
cowboy ballads, and even yet
one occasionally hears a middle-
aged cowboy humming:
"Chicken in the bread tray,
scratching out dough,
Granny, will your dog bite? No,
child, no."
or
"Ducks in the mill pond, swim-
ming to the ford,
Coffee in the tin can, sugar in
the gourd."
One of the most famous of all
these balls was the one given at
Anson, in Jones County, the
Christmas of 1885. It is gener-
ally known as the "Cowboy's
Christmas Ball" but one of the
guests, Mrs. Scott W. Hollis now
living in Abilene, says that it
was a masked ball. It was held
at the Morning Star Hotel, and
the old square dance seemed to
be the "latest" style, with
"Windy Billy" from "little Dead
man's Branch" as the leader and
violinist, or in the language o
the cowboy, fiddler. Larry
Chittenden, author of "Ranch
Verses," gives a picture that
Mrs. Hollis says is true to the
scene. The quaint language
denotes something of the atmos-
phere that must have charac-8
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