The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-13

no more children, an how it was my
dooty to bid up the Kingdom. Fin.
ly. ! got mad an tolt 'em that eff my
bildin' up the Kingdom ment takin' an
other oman, they cud fgger on my
dom mighty little of the work. Blu
they kept ut it fur three or four yearst
till up am siz TO Brigham that ef ]
heered eny more about it I'd just pull
up an leave the Kingdom altergether.
1t made the old man purity mad, but he
didn't say much; that wa-an't his way
he did things; an wot he did ter me
was ter send me IN o mishun. Thar
wasn't no use kickin', SO I iist got red
dy an started fur my field O. labor.
1t don't make no matter whar it was
but / don't think the Lord %prospered
my work. Thar was more kicks nor ha'
pence, IN, / was thinkin' . good sight
more O. Molly than mishuns. Inever
heerd from her, fur mails was skeerce
in them days, but l was alluz a think
in about her, an wondrin' how she was
out thar all alone, an wen my two years
cum to an end ye bet I startid west
sharp set.
"Goin' across the plains I jist kept a.
dreemin' to myself how the house look't
an how Molly was, AM how s'prised she'd
be ter see me agin, an a-wond'rin'
whether . babby we sort O s'pected
when I cum away had arriv. An SO
the time whit on ontil we was past the
Rockies, wen wan day a stranger rid
up an sort O. looked over the people an
gives me o. long stare, then he whit off
a-talkin' with the cap'n-he was a Cen
tile-ey'ry wancet'n a vile lookin' forts
me. I didn't s'picion enythin' at fust,
but somehow didn't feel easy in my
mind about the way the stranger looked
at me, an wen he startet off west'ards ]
was glad to get shet o. him. But l was
clean TUX back wen the cap'n cum an
callt me outs heerin' and seq:
"'Wot hev ye bin a-doin' ter git
the Danites after yep
".Doin'?' seq I; I haint bin dom
nuthin'.'
Look a-here, john seq he, I've
took q fancy ter ye, an I don't want ter
see ye git hurt, but them devils is AFTER
ye, an ye'd better make y%erself mighty
skeerce if ye don't want q hole in yer
skin. ] tell We this train amt healthy.
They've gotye mark't.
y didn't skeer very much in them
days, but when / heerd that the cole
sweat bruk out all over me, fur ] know't
eff that gang got arter me / was a gone
coon. Thin I thot O. Molly, an / list
gritted my teeth an .wore I'd see her
agin, enyway, an find out what the
row was.
"Ilookt mighty keerful to my arms
tnat night; I he'd a good rifle an two
good pistils, an I he'd a fust-class Amer
lean boss. / wasn't afeard o. Ingins,
an 1 know't most iv'ry trail over the
mountains; SO I jist laid my plan, an
without sayin' q word to envy wan, l
laid in some ~rations, an that night wen
iv'ry thin was dark an quiet, / lit out
torts the mountains. It wa purity
sharp work gettin' out without eny-
body KNOWN, but I did, an at sun-up
I was miles away an clos't to the Wa
satch Range, makin'fn q pass I know't
that nd bring me out clos't to my ranch.
"Arter I got inter the hills I went
slower, sparin' my boss, but hurr'in'
all the same, an about shutdown the
third day arter leavin' the train, I lookt
down the kenyon an thar was my farm
below me.
Now, ye see they was speeding ONE
ct Salt Lake fust, and eff they was layin'
fur me it nd be on the road thar, an
81 know't I was c1ar ahead o. the train,
but thar wa-an'tno use in bein' too fast,
SO / jist pickets my boss in q side kenyon
and laid low till dark, when I started
down the pass an crawls up ter my own
house jist like an Ingin or a thief. ]
don't know wot made me do it, but
somehow / he'd an idee the guieter ]
KEEP the better it nd be for me. An ]
was jist about as right as a man cud be,
for thet time eny how.
"Thar was o light in wan o. the
rooms that shun tho the window, and ]
crswl't up and lookt in, and thar was a
sight as jist TUX away my breath. Thar
was Molly, an thar was suthin' else,
too; an wen / see that little thin in a
sort o box, / nearly hollert right out,
fur twas a babby,-a reel live babby;
an iy'rythin' lookin' sweet and hum. like
like in the room. An I was jist thinkin'
o maxim myself known, wen Mol
~ gifts up from whar she was a settin'
an / sees her fur the fust time, an SIGH
q sad, car'worn face it was. She leent
over that kid, an then knelt down an
clasps her hans tergither, an 1 cud see
the tears a-rollin' down her cheeks, an
she was q rockin' back and forrits. I
tell ye, Of she wa-an't rastlin' in prar
then, nobody liver was. An I jist stood
thar and lookt, an was jist goin, in ter
put my arms around her, an tell her
that her ole Jack was back again, wen I
heert vices, an then I see her gin q
start an a look O fear come into her
face as she stud l~istenin'.
Il crawlt up ter the cornor O. the
house. an / see two men a-cumin' forts
the door, an wen they got purity clost
they etopt, and wan says to 'tother:
"tAsVal, I reckon we've got the burned
cuss now, fur Bill Hickman's got O hint
he's ter be removed
Ell Bill is after him. says 'tother
fellow, he'll be whar no man IL iver see
him again. I s'pose, bishop, yell CON
sole the wilder, an be q father to the
fatherless, wun't YEP An'the cuss give
a sort o. chuckil that made me grit my
teeth.
"Then the fust a spoke up agin,
an SEE he:
"tKeep yer durn mouth shet. ye fool,
she monght heer us. Ye go long hum,
an I'll go in an break the sad news
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