The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20


the returns as they used to say in politics
An when do that there's only one way of
seeing 'em, an Pm glad I've got the eyes to
see EN- in l!lat igIt."
$50 am l. .aiI Mrs. Nayn, gently but
successfully putting a foury impression of
four fingers and thumb on her husbands
head II s'pose it's CAUSE I'm SO tired of
waitin' that don't look at things just as you
do. Pears to me there's nothin' that comes
up, an that our hearts get set on, but what
we've got to wait for. 1t gets to be awful
tiresome, after you've been at it thirty or
forty years think Phil might hurry up
matters little"
"Mebbe 'tisn't Pills fault" suggested the
farmer
well" sid Mrs. Hayn, with flash be-
hind Der glasses, Il don't see why any gal
should keep that boy a-waitin', if that's what
you mean"
Don't, ehF' drawled the old man, with
queer smile and u quizzical look "Well,
s'pose he is good dea! more takin' than his
father was"
mo such thing" said the old lady
Much obliged; I'm good deal too polite
to contradict-when you're SO much in ear
nest, you know" the old man replied But
if it's so, what's the reason that you kept him
waitin'r'
"Why, lit was-you see, I-'twas-the
way of it was-shol" And Mrs. Hayn sud
denly noticed that ported geranium in the
kitchen window needed dead leaf removed
from its base
YES" said her husband, following her
with his eyes. An suppose that's just
about what Pills gal would say, if any one
was to ask her. But the longer you waited
the surer was of you. wasn't | :"
''Oh, don't ask questions when you know
the answer as well as do" said the old lady
81 want to see things CONS to a head; that's
all"
They'll. come, they'll come" said the old
man ITS tryia' to wait, know, SEEM I'm
dom some of the waitin' myself; but the
tryin' of your faith worketh patience, an
let patience have her perfect work. you
remember"
More Scripturer' sighed the wife. You're
gettin' through powerful sight of New Test
ament this mornin', Reuben, an s'poss !
deserve it, SEEM the way feel like fghtin'
it. But s'pose this company speculation don't
come to auythin'i then PHIL be ii good deal
wuss of than he is now, won't he's You re-
member the awful trouble Deacon Trewk got
into by bein' the head of that new tangled
stump and stone puller company, that didn't
pull any to speak of. Everybody came down
on him, an called him all sorts OF names, an
said he'd lied to 'em, an they would go to the
poor house because of the money they'd put
in it on his advice AMI
Phil won't have any such trouble" said
the farmer, ''for nobody took stock on his ad
vice. Tramlay got up the company before
we Enew anythin' about it, an all the putin
of the land was done by him. Besides, there's
nobody in it that'u suffer much, even if things
co::les to the wust. Except one or two dunn
mies-clerks of Tramlay's-who were let il
for share or two, just to make up board
OF directors to the legal size, what shares
amt held by Phil and Tranlay an that fell
Ter Marge belongs to gal"
WHAT Luciaf
mo, no-nnother gal; rnebbe | ought to
call her woman, SEEM she's putty well
along, although mighty handsome an smart
ii-r names Dinnn, an Trainlay joked Phil
Il ."J.L her once twice. maxim out she was
>.:-,.ca by him, but of course that's eli non
seas.. Shes rich, an got money to invest
2, ~ once in a while, an Tramlay put her
up 10 this little operation"
You're sure she amt interested In Phili"
asked Mrs. Hayn. 1--WE seen no end of
trouble made between young folks by gals
that's old enough to know their own minds
au smart enough to use EN-"
Fer goodness sake, Lou Amir exclaimed
the old farmer. ITO hear you talk, anybody
would s'pose that in the big city of New York,
where over million people live and mill
ion more come in from different places every
week, there wasn't any young man for folks
to get interested in but our Phil Reilly, old
lady, Pm beginnin' to be troubled about you;
that sort of feelin' that's croppin' out all the
time in you makes me afeard that you've got
a kind o pride that's got to have fall-a
pride in our son, settin' him above all other
mortal bein's, SO far as anythin's concerned
that can make a young man intereStin'."
WELL" said Mrs. Hayn, after apparently
thinking the matter over, ''if it's so l reckon
it'll have to stay so. | don't b'lieve there's
any hope of forgiveness for anythin' if
heavens going to hold an old woman to &C
count for SEEM all the good there is in her
first born. | hain't been down to York my
self, but some of York's young sprigs have
been down here, one time an another, an if
they're fair samples of the hull lot, should
think a sight of our Phil would be to all the
city gals like the shadder of great rock in
weary land"
Who's a-droppin' into Scripture nowT
asked the old farmer, moving to where he
could look his wife full in the face
Scripture amt bit too strong to use
freely about our Phil-my Phil" said the old
woman, pushing her spectacles to the top Of
her head and beginning to walk the kitchen
floor "All the hopin', an fearin', and
waitin, an nursin', an teachin'. an
thinkin', an prayin', that that boy
has cost comes hurryin' into my mind
when | think about him. If there's
anythin' he ought to be an isn't,
don't see what it is, an can't see where his
mothers to blame for 1t. Whatever good
there is in me pve tried to put into him, an
whatever | was lackin' in I've tried to get
for him elsewhere You've been to him
ev'rythin' a father should, an he never could
have got along without you. You've been
lots to him that | never could be, he bein' a
boy, an never cease thankin' heaven for it:
but whenever my mind gets on a strain
about him kind o. get us mixed up, an feel
as If twas me instead of him that was takin'
whatever happened, an the longer it lasts
the less | can think of him any other way
There!"
The old farmer rose to his feet while this
speech was under way; then he removed his
hat, which he seldom did after coming into
the house, unless reminded. When his wife
concluded, he took both her hands and
dropped upon his knees; he had often dono it
before-years before, when overcome by her
young beauty-but never before had he done
it with SO much of reverence.
CHAPTER XXI.
SEVERAL GREEN EYED MONSTERS.