The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-04-20

day;
But those who die young or are left forlorn,
This grief is no older than they.
ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHRoP.
THE OLD SETTLERS.
"Grandpop," said little Peleg, edo
you remember story you told me
back about New Years time? A real
good one it was, grandpop," said
Peleg, automatically.
"'Bout New Years time, did We
say, sonny?" replied the Old Settler,
pleasantly. "Lemme see-were it
nat'ral hist'ry?"
"Well, there was an elk in it," said
Peleg.
"Aha! an elk, hay?" exclaimed the
Old Settler, nodding approvingly.
"Were a-lammin' OF him good? Did
l rassel him an thump him till he
bellered an bawled? Or were he a
iabbin' OF me into the ground hisself
n foot or two ut ev'ry jab? An elk,
Peleg, hain't ez gentle ez sucking
dove when he pitches inter We. WITCH
were on top, sonny, an likeliest to
be cock O. the walk? Me or the elk?"
"You was, grandpop, for you was
riding him." replied Peleg.
ooh! Jist takin' leetle elk-back
spin round the kentry, hay?" said
the Old Settler. "That were jist like
me h'gosh!"
mol" replied Peleg. "The elk was
swimming. Don't you remember?
You was telling me about a time
when you and your nanny and
your pap was nearly starved to
death. There wasn't nothing in the
house to eat, and ut last you went
out to ketch some cells. You got
ketched in q food, and the elk came
along in the food, and you jumped
on its back and steered it right into
your pap's cabin, and at the same
time the food washed down from
way up the creek a tree full of apples
right to the cabin door, and you and
your pop and your nanny lived
high on elk real and apple pie,
That's what the story was about
grandpop. Do you remember il
now?"
"Ruther!' said the Old Settler.
Before you brung in the elk and
the apples you didn't have nothing
in the cabin to eat ut all, did you
grandpop?"
Not even n white bean, b'gosh!"
"Not as much as little flower OF
corn meal or buckwheat?"
eye KID ha' stuck ev'ry drop o
flour, corn meal an buciwhit tn
was in the cabin inter a 'skeeter's eye
an it wouldn't ha' started n tear"
"But after you fetched in that ell
and apples you had apple pie, didn't
you?"
"Bet We! An bang up apple pie il
we're, too. No woman ez ever lived
KID beat my OF nanny maxim apple
pic, Peleg.'
"Well, I've been wondering goot
while, grandpop."
"Hev We, sonny? An wat hez beer
the heft O. yer wonderin'?"
"I've been wondering, grandpop
what your nanny could have made
her pie crust out Of" said Peleg, not
| without fidgeting on his chair.
The Old Settlers smile gradually
left his face. He stroked his chin 6
while, and then lit his pipe. After 6
few emphatic whifls lie looked al
Peleg.
"Ielcg." said lie severly, "Bill Sim
mons hez ben heipin' ye' long a con
sid able with yer wonderin', or elst
human natur' is differ I'm wat
think it is!''
"No, grandpopP' exclaimed Peleg
81 thunk it all up myself
The old Settler smoked in silence
or SO long n time that PeleS coult
scarcely bear the suspense. Al
last his grandfather spoke.
believe Pcleg," said the Old set
tier, chit We hain't never he'd tame
crow. Yer he'd the measles, an vel
| worked up n consid able O. stone
bruises on yer heel. Yer grammar
my has made We set poorly reg lal
an listen to Brother Van SlOcum o
a Sunday, an 'casionally of an even
in yev he'd to git the best O. thu
multiplication table, and yev he(
the humps on both sides to wunst
But you never he'd tame crow"
"a boy, Peleg, who has had tam'
crow to contend agin', an hez con
tended agin' it an yit crowd up tt
a man an gran father, is a boy
b'gosh, setch ez don't happen often
Wen l were boy in the Suga,
Swamp deestric' l he'd two tam
crows an contended agin' EN-
Wuthcr l ever crowd up to be a mai
an gran'fath er. it hain't fer me t.
say. Wen l were a boy, one day e
were roamin' in the woods, l see I
crows nest in tn top OF q tall deaf
pine tree. Now, Icoul.ln'tsee wuthe
tn were anything in the nest or not
an fer all / know'd it mowt ha' beef
las years crows nest, an mos
everybody knows th't las year.
crows nest hain't much more val
u'ble piece O. property than an empt.,
Jug ten miled I'm n tavern. But
wa mt chopped outen the kind o
stuff th't were gointer let me slide b!
that tree 'thout findin' out wuthe
the nest were a las years or a thi
years, an SO l jist clumb clean t
the top O. the pine to see. Wull, tn
nest were this years, an it had il
it two young crows, most ready t.
flv out an be teached th't the uni.
harm in scarecrows is th't they'r
li'ble to break down if too man.
crows lights ON 'em to wunst an tn
i fho ,,pIy, fh;po ths ia in life for a. crOy