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Well, I will cancel your date. But Buntline was not to be balked in this way, and asked Nixon what he would rent the theater one week for. 'One thousand dollars, said Nixon. 'It's my theater, said Buntline, making out a check for the amount.
The captured horses and mules were distributed among the officers, scouts and soldiers. Among the animals that I thus obtained were my Tall Bull horse, and a pony which I called "Powder Face," and which afterwards became quite celebrated, as he figured prominently in the stories of Ned Buntline.
I thank you, my friends, but I must decline to set out on this trail, which I know has more cactus burs to the square inch than any I ever followed on the plains." Meantime Ned Buntline had been nurturing an ambitious project.
I looked at my part and then at Jack; and Jack looked at his part and then at me. Then we looked at each other, and then at Buntline. We did not know what to make of the man. "How long will it take you to commit your part to memory, Bill?" asked Jack. "About six months, as near as I can calculate. How long will it take you?" answered I.
I had an elegant dinner at the club rooms, with the gentlemen who had been out on the September hunt, and other members of the club. After dinner, in company with Mr. Hecksher who acted as my guide I started out on the trail of my friend, Ned Buntline, whom we found at the Brevoort Place Hotel. He was delighted to see me, and insisted on my becoming his guest.
Though he was several weeks old when I returned no name had been given him. I called him Elmo Judson, in honor of Colonel Judson, whose pen name was "Ned Buntline." But the officers insisted upon calling him Kit Carson Cody and it was finally settled that this should be his name.
Jack and myself accordingly accompanied him to manager Nixon's office without saying a word, as we didn't know what to say. "Here we are, Mr. Nixon," said Buntline; "here are the stars for you. Here are the boys; and they are a fine pair to draw too. Now, Nixon, I am prepared for business." Nixon and Buntline had evidently had a talk about the terms of our engagement.
And if you're called back into the army to fight redskins, I'll go with you." This reply established the author firmly in the esteem of the scouts. Buntline engaged a company to support the stellar trio, and the play was widely advertised.
The Chicago Times said that if Buntline had actually spent four hours in writing that play, it was difficult for any one to see what he had been doing all the time. Buntline, as "Cale Durg," was killed in the second act, after a long temperance speech; and the Inter-Ocean said that it was to be regretted that he had not been killed in the first act. The company, however, was very good, and Mdlle.
"Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer, List ye landsmen all to me." and "One night it blew a hurricane, The sea was mountains rolling, When Barney Buntline turned his quid, And cried to Billy Bowlin " right through without a mistake. "Oh, look dere, dere! what dat rum fis?" he suddenly exclaimed, pointing to a short distance from the raft.
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