Cherry 



tion under the pseudonym of Dick Turpin. 

 The reason why he had himself assumed an 

 alias was one of the things imparted to me in 

 confidence. He had left Texas many years 

 ago and journeyed to Montana, where he had 

 started a ranch, and introduced a breed of 

 horses which he said had since become known 

 all over the world under the name of the 

 "Suffolk Punch." Of this stock he had some 

 So,ooo head, besides the ordinary breed of 

 horses, cattle, sheep, etc. 



As fortune smiled upon him, he had "done 

 society" a little, as he expressed it, and, wish- 

 ing to marry and settle down, had paid court 

 to the fair daughter of a neighboring cattle 

 king. While, from Cherry's account, the at- 

 tractions of this young lady were not such as 

 would entitle her to pre-eminence among her 

 sisters in the capitals of the effete East, they 

 seemed to have secured for her decided pre- 

 cedence in her own circle of society, and suit- 

 ors came from far and near. While Cherry 

 was far too delicate to go into details, he gave 

 me to understand that his attentions were not 

 unfavorably regarded by this damsel, and that 

 he might long ago have been settled down to 

 a happy matrimonial existence with the object 



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