The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-07
DICKS VENGEANCE.
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They were tnf tst9*t Gun tffasess AAisttst
In the worid. This father was BY s'srfs
q pFospeet5r. tFapper. or sanehef'
but he never saeeeedesi IN masking 8
good living In any WAY. he was re-
markaisy handsome mountaineer, tail
and strong. and he looked on honest la
bor A. quite beneath hisn- His word was
his bond; he contracted no debts chat
he could nos pay. yet he often eat up
n fat steer asd divided among his
neighbors. who sent him vegetables
and groceries In return, and never
asked where the fat steer come from
Perhaps they knew. When herd
passed along ibe dusty high read the
women smiled gt each other and sail !.
81 guess veil have some fresh meat
Tomorrow
Sometimes he would drive into
town with a team OF high-stePping
smooth coated horses attached 10 bis
rusty old blackboard. Then bis friends
crowded about him. stFoking the
glossy necks, examining the white
feath, bat no one In the little Mormon
settlement ever thosght OF fnquiring
where he got them.
Dick Johnson was the kindest OF
men 20 his friends and family, yet he
had his record lie would be lyuehed
promptly II he should ever return to
Montana: be had shot briagekeepef
who demanded toll Of hiss. and. alto
gether. the deaths OF haif-dozen men
were caused by the weli-known fact
that .iOie Dick wuz mighty lively with
his pistels when he got 'nnif whisky
aboard.
Ills wife did not always have coed
print dress 10 wear 20 town, the chill
dren were seldom provided with shoes,
bat she always seemed cUnieniei and
iaziiy happy, and there Was not q
merrier set OF little ones The mother
was fair-haifed, blue eyed woman,
and the children all looked like her
1.-THE children mostly awi looks like
me, she would say, With an amiable
smiis, '-awl OF EN- 'ecpt Caddie, an !
guess she looks more like her pa. "
"Yoa kin Jest bet do, and i'm
mighty glad ! haysnt no tow-head
Ike these here yonng 'uns." eddie
would answer She was remarkably
handsome girl, and people who adj
mifed her delicate dark face, were al
ways shocked when her coarse voice
and eoafsef language we're heard. OF
course this energetic girl ruled the
whole family; the man, who Ia spite
OF his strength and feFecity, was as
ten.ler.hearted and simple-minded as
a child; the INDECENT, amiable woman.
and the swarm of tow-headed chill
dreu.
Caddie had dreams Of something
different from the vagrant lie that
satisfied the rest OF the family. some
times she saw herself a busy wife and
mother. moving about the two or
three rooms ~ log farmhouse.
When sit married haia't a-goin
. 10 hev no seth fcrforn 'Golsby Shanty
cz this here. len hey 10 he a log house,
an derned well plastefed an white
washed inside an out, An therel
be the partiest rng carpet on the front
room iioor You ever see, an Il good
board floor in the kitchen, too. An
I'll hev likely colt % ride, an some
cows, SOS ~ hev lots of milk an but
ter, an yer bet yer life III be the boss
Of .he huh goi-defned ranch.
"Icw We always he'd tine idees in
yew re head, Caddie." drawled her
mother, an ef yew marries Bishop
Burns, like yea re pa wants view tew.
maybe he'll Civ yes a lng house bat
VIEW know well enuti that Dan VIII
Hams CANT do no sech thing fer We.
Huh r. observed Caddie, Ell that
bull headed ole Burns ever comes
a-shirin round me he'll get sech
crack IN Is jawll make him see stars,
or else my name hsin't Cad Johnson
Wall guess he'd setter not risk
il, then said the woman. with a fee
bile laugh. "Yew're pas a-hitchin up
the bosses. Caddie. an | reckon view a
better pack that biz o. butter in 4 box.
an mchbc ole Burns all give ycg ONE
shoes fer il et yew'fe real nice tew
him
An right, answered Caddie. Look
a-nrre, yeu tom, I'll kiek you into the
mi idle 81 next week Il you don't stop
irwin 10 laso that there pig. Come
along here now, an eit yer face
washed. We're going 10 the Co
OPP. and mehbe senii cit some candy
II youi behave Yourselves
There was only enc scat ia the
wagon. and or it sat Dick Johnson and
his wife. who held the bahy in her
arms Caddie sat on the box in the
hack Of the wagon, and the chill.
dFen rolled around her in the hav that
was always taken along Ter the horses
30 eat while the women were trading
in the co operative store and the man
was drinking at the one saloon.
The rosd ran along the hank oi a
river. whose cleaning hteaiihS. seen
at intervals through the ovuFhanging
willows. together with the long sweep
oi green and brown and gsnid bunch.
grass that bowel it, taS ellcd heads as
the breeze PASSED over II. waving like
many eoiarcd sea away To the dark
mountains with their snowy tops
formed picture almost sublime IN its
perfect levcllncsS
That there grass Is e'ca most
ready - cut. remarked old Dick. Il
guess III h0rrV the bishops hay rick
to-nlorrcr. an 10 after a toad . hav A..
an YOU Young ters kin come slnnE az
help stamp u eg you want -.
The children set gp joyful shont,
for this VAS treat - them a, IL
would he Ia any one. io tumble
alsaus Ia The loug grass. 20 fish for
minuoNs IN the caoi. rorriins creek
to wade into IS knee decp for water-
crosses. ia picA tsft. wild strsN - YFie~
ami u cat al thvee deiicac}rS With the
sweet home rl acc tfsau Hnd CpOiitFf
butter Aud sitrs tii4 delightful day
how pleasant q was IA roll iu The sweet
sinsl.inr hay. Nith the iTes sss cooling
their vuuburntd cheeks daring the
lone TsAe home
J he wagon drew - at lat in frout
81 the villsee store. ard the g'rl mar
shallssi the thi'5rrn inte the "t'c-np'
with = g,~,i urstoi fereis,}c persuasion
HuW do vos &c. sister Johnson -
said she sso-ckrcper. whss Wa asa The
Mormon ti>hap. "wsb. Cadyie. I ~
yoa'sv A. Eat and sArsy a. yo0 ever
was
Cad&!c >tsrcl az him sccrni1'ly. mt
ltVsWse she uAS offended q his FIRE
iaueuare. she s4s eglr IA 81 o. thal :
BAT tl4is NNUouth creature had r.
much n tarsi rss4Gesry - any ether
- eAF ol3 gri
How isash ie Na,s pstin i,sg fir~
top h.sttsr be- a>ke7, @ffu iet yrs
heS' thi. h~re, e. ycpN ssge use six
bit- $ roll isr II
suh. eesae row - sad. wa
don n wspt 80 DO zee out o. pay rEoats
hike that scela Il yea, IL ses se