“Wal boys” put in Uncle Jimmy Metcalf…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

“Wal boys” put in Uncle Jimmy Metcalf the other evening. “I kin jist tell you fellers about a time I had once over in the Black Range that lays eny scrape you have told in the shade. You see, me and Sam Smith happened to be out in the Black Range one day hunting stray cattle. We rode ’long purty much together till erbout noon, when Sam went up one canyon and me up ernuther one. The sun was biling hot an’ water awful scarce. An’ jist like human natur to want and crave somethin’ it can’t git, I begin ter want water the worst kind. The