The following was posted on a barbed wire-stick gate in 1895 on the Mixican border:

Notis! Tresspassers will B percecuted to the full extent of 2 mungrell dogs
which neve was over sochible to strangers and 1 dubble brl shot gun
which aint loded with sofa pillows. Dam if I aint gitten tired of this
hell rainin on my place.

B. Grisscom