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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, " DECEMBER

4,

-1937.

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RECKON folks think that a cow- hurry without fumbling, es antimes wear them on northern rangea boy wears some mighty queer awkward blunt too would cause him for warmth in winter. habiliments. It appeared to me at to do. When a feller climbs aboard The Six-Shooter one time that any man who ran a "bronk" (unbroken horse) he around in an abbreviated skirt was wants to get his stirrups and get set plumb crazy. But since I've had a before the pony explodes, or he is chance to scrutinise the Scotsman on apt to be plled (thrown.) his native range, taking note of the mountains he must climb over and brush he must wade through, I can see where a costume which allows plenty of knee action is sure desir- ublo.

big herd will kick up a huge cloud of yellow, suffocating dust, and it is impossible to breathe without some protection. In this case, necker- and chief is pulled up over nose mouth of the rider and makes a crude but serviceable dust flier,

their

a front-

useful

From this practice was evolved the use of the neckerchief as a mask by wild cowboys who weren't too scrupulous about how they got At his waist a cowboy carries his money. In winter, when blizzards six gun," generally a Colts, a single begin to howl over the ranges, the action revolver, calibro 30 or 45. The neckerchief is wrapped around the gun ia slung in an open holster on head and ears and led under the wide cartridge belt. It is carried chin to serve as ear muffs.. A nee- The fancy stitching and Inlaid leather on the boot tops is pure de- at the hip this way so that it will be kerchief has saved many coration and more or less useless, casy to get at, and because here it bitten ear, and is a plumb except when a cowboy is aiming to does not hinder a man at his work, article of the cowboy's attire.

Most folks know that the big hat catch the eye of his lady love. Cow- There was a time when a six-shooter

on

people. boy boots are built to ride or rope in was carried for equalizer of men, be or sombrero is typical of the cow-

A It was great and are useless for walking. cowboy would rather ride eighty cause a small man could draw it as boy, but they don't savvy why he fast as a large one. Cowboys don't wears it. Well, there's a reason for that too, a couple of reasons in fact. homicidal use a six gun for miles than walk one.

much any more, not because all the Better than a Parasol Silver-Mounted Spurs

little men have been wiped out and not because all the big men are cowards, but because "John Law" is now the equaliser, not "Judge Colt."

A kilt certainly comes up to that requirement. I have been told that a kilt, aside from being a right decorative article of apparel and nside from allowing soothing breezes to caress tired legs, can be used effectively as a blanket at night. What I haven't figured out is why kilts are pleated, and being pleated. of him in case he why they are not pleated in front as well as at the back. However, I know there must be a reason for it and a good one loo.

with horses and cattle.

Of course the spurs, whleh

are buckled on the boots, are used to let the horse know you are still on top They he forgets.

We

purposes

carry a gun nowadays for shooting crippled stock, for self- protection against mad bulls or onery and for signalling to other Bleers, riders. Don't belleve all you see in the moviest

I haven't used my six-shooter on

I'll never have to.

In desert or semi-desert country the sun beats down with terrific heat. Anyone who is out in this sun for long is not protected about the head and shoulders is in for a sunstroke.

are used harshly or moderately, de- pending on the horse or rider. They

A cowboy can't be running around come in mighty handy at times when

with a parasol in his hand, so he a cowbody wit jam them under the saddle cinch to keep from being

wears one on his head in the form of a broad-brimmed hat. This hat Well, there is also F reason for

back too, every one of those outlandish articles thrown. Sometimes these spurs are

sheds rain liko a duck's letting it run off the rear of the brim of clothing which a cowboy wears, silver mounted and "shine like a from the high-heeled boots on his nigger's heel." Spurs like this cost another man yet, and here's hoping instead of down a rider's neck. That

cowboy two weeks wuges.

суса my feet to the sombrero on his head.

Over his torso a cowpuncher drapes same broad brim has saved In place of kills a cowboy dons a

a heavy wool shirt, shoves the tails many a time when tearing through Shoes ns Brakes

pair of "levies" or waist overalls, the down into his levies, and leaves the thick brush and pine, needles after wild cattle. Plenty of riders have Why does he wear pointed-toed, I bottoms of which he turns up about neck open. Sometimes the shirt saved the lives of their horses, and high-heeled riding boots? Because six inches so as to display they checked and fancy, if the wearer's consequently of themselves, by carry-

at way. tuale runs that boots of this type are absolutely work on his boots, and so he won't

ing water from some almost inacces A vest is generally worn over the bible desert spring to their dying necessary for his work on the range be hampered by drogging pont-jegs.

It affords a pocket where "the mouths in these big hots. I've used. Those heavy, lapping, fenther shirt.

makin's" (Bull Durham tobacco and

and night, which

mine for n

a pillow many a The heels are high and slightly leggings.

can be kept without getting

other punchers do the same. Yep, undershot for several reasons. First, rider's legs are called "chapereros"

without binding a man's them into the ground after roping and are awkward, but are indispen-warmih

mighty

useful and necessary one, to wild horse or steer in the corral (pensable just the same. They act as movements and hindering his work. looking piece of headgear, but

"Some vests are made calf skin

of to protect

a cowboy ut any rate, "puncher's" or enclosure) and this keeps the armour

(cowboy's) legs. They turn aside with the hair left on, while others

That about sizes up the every-day cowboy from being dragged about

boys who too much. Second, they keep a rider kicks and bites from onery horses are studdied with spoin (rivets) and working clothes of the

herd the beef. Whether or not his and protect a man from being bat-look mighly pretty. from pushing his foot entirely

outat is plain or fancy depends on through his stirrup when riding a tered against the sides of the break-Neckerchiefs are Useful

the wages a "puncher" is drawing. In running stock corral (pen.) In bucking horse. If this happened and through brush or thorny cactus these

ing

That neckerchief around a cow-The average cowboy can't compete he was thrown, he would be a chapa protect a rider's skin. In case boy's neck isn't there for show only. with the movie heroes, Where and kicked to death. The high heel of rain or show they keep him dry It comes in handy for a number of the clothes he does not because there prevents that,

and warm. The long haired, woolly things. The main service is keeping clothes appeal to the picture public, chaps seen in the movies are mostly, a rider from choking to death when but because they ald him in his job.

Bob Fletcher 1 for decoration, but cowmen some-following a trail-herd of cattle. A

are buckled on

they act as brakes when he dip or "chans." They look awkward A vest niso furnishes added a sombrero is not only a romantic-

The toes of the boots are pointed so that a rider can find his stirrup in

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