Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-09

 He used to tell his children, when he chanced to meet any of them in the hills, that he had Cheap fun" playing with the | antelope At last, even, once, as have said, when the evil spirit had blown away all the | good game from the slopes of the great valley for long time, the chief men came l into the mountains to catch antelope or rats, or anything fit to eat. But the ante lope were so shy they could not get near | them. Yet while the wise men were eating the nasty rock-rsts there came word to them: "Lo! the fool-the great fool-lives among the rocks upoa the abundance of fat ante lope" Then the wise men sent one very wise mana half of my father-to talk to my father and find out how he got his antelope meat.
 'I shoot it with bow and arrow" said my father. Then the wise man rubbed his own nose his own nose, because there was no oth- CT nose present but my fathers; and he would not rub my fathers nose, because | my fathers nose was a fools nose. A | wise man never rubs fools nose. "Your arrows must be swift and your bow strong" "Must theyl" said my fool father "Yes," said the wise man. ''So be it." | "You are foolI' | "And you my half f-brotherf' 'Let me see your bow and arrows" "i am fool. will give you my best arrows and bow" Away went the wise man, glad to have the arms which brought down the shy game. But after some hours he returned | to my fathers "wicki-up" in a great rage flor he was a wise man-and throwing the arms into the fire whereon my ances- tor was broiling fat antelope, shouted: "Theu liar-as well as fool!" "Wherefore this burst of wisdom, O | wise brotheri'
 "You said could kill antelope with the arms you gaveSme." "Did T. Pardon me I am fool" Then the wise man of the Shoshones grew furious at my parent, because the smell of the broiling antelope made his heart big. And my father smiled in his | own palm as he squstted at the fire, and said, as he turned the meat over on the coals: "I gave you the best" "You did." said the sneering wise one "There are my arms. Look There is none better among them. And, when you have seen for yourself squat-my supper is broiled-and eat"
  with the good grease of the fat antelope he became sweet on my father, knowing that All fools are tender hearted, and proceeded to describe how his family suffered for want of better food; and went on and on, begging and bewailing, as wise men do when their pompous, petty, tradiuonary | wisdom sends them 70 an original fool for advice. And at length my father agreed to show him, on the very next day, how to | kill fat antelope. "But," said my father, "the manner of it is so like the folly of fool that hope, | for the sake of the good name of the fam | lily, you will not practice it yourself. It would be better if you laid the blame of it | upon me-"
 ''Let me know and I will think" said the wise man.
 "To-morrow," said my father; and gave his relative a haunch of antelope to take home to his family. ! On the morrow early my father sighted, in the middle of the howery little noun tain vale in front of his door, herd of fine fat antelope. He said to himself, "It is well!" Then he painted his legs red and waited.
 Soon the wise feet were heard coming rapidly to the fools door,
 "How-how!" said my father. Come in, and-paint your legs red" | "Wha- a-tI'
 Paint your legs red"
 Paint"
 "Yes."
 "RedI"
 'I thought" said my father, "you would not be fool"
 "Yes, yes-anything! Give me the paint"
 ''So then, very soon, my most ancient father and his wise reative walked out I int ta rt-it aSr 1afra int ed beautifully red.
 When they had walked near enough to be noticed by the antelope, "Now," said my father, 'let us here lie down upon our backs in the grass and stick our pretty red legs up in the air."
 They did so.
 "when I wave my legs you wave yours" | "Yes"
 "When I cross my legs you cross yours"
 sYes"
 ''An right. Here we go!" | By-and-by the wise man saw the ante lope walking slowly across the valley to- ward the red legation.
 "Now," said my father, ''the antelope will come mp very close to these legs-then shoot, and shoot fast"
 So they did.
 Ana presently the wise man went nome | with plenty of meat-and fools advice
 After many days the fool could hear from the few Shoshones, who hardly halt en as they passed his "wicki-up," of the great, wise invention of his half brother in the matter of killing antelope. And the wisdom of it went abroad upon every trail Then my father sat, in the evening, at his own door, and cried to the owl:
 Alas! how poor are the thoughts of a fool,n
 My half-uncle became A great man in the nation-a very great man; and on his tomb, to this day, if one were there to point it out, are painted two naked red legs upside down, and his family is known as the Waving Red Legs.
 John Stephenson's Early Struggles.