The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-07-30

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way, and perched on q last years SUM-
flower stalk, trilling notes Of silvery
sweetness. Occasionally q huge jack
rabbit would go leaping away with erect
ears across the rolling plain, and coyotes
might be seen hovering along the brow
Of a ravine bowling disInally.
"It's plumb wild loolin' out hyer in
Kansas, amt it, papS" the girl remarked.
"Yes, I'm erfeard, too, yer goin' ter
git powerful homesick out hyer," an
Swered Adam Hamlet.
"No, amt amin TO git homesick,
pap. It'll be plumb different, l know,
from livin' ermong friends; but we've
come out hyer to make us home Of our
own, an l amt goin' to git homesick. !"
And she set her lips firmly, as was Nancy
HAmlet's habit when summoning her
forces Of resolution.
"God bless yer, Nancyl Yer Q brave
one, an don't know how I'd ever git
erlOng without yer" said Adam in q
fond tone
jest see the posies an the purity birdsl
I hain't goin' to be without friends with
such company as them to cheer me ont
hyer," she said in q cheerful voice.
That evening they encamped on the
banks Of small, thinly wooded stream.
While Hamlet attended to the tired
team Nancy gathered some dry twigs,
with which she soon had fire started.
Then she put on larger sticks, and when
she had secured good bed Of Goals she
went to the stream, filed the tea kettle
with water and fixed it to boil. This
done, she went TO the larder in the
wagon, cut several slices Of bacon, pre-
pared q large pan Of fresh biscuits and
was fitting around her camp fire like q
veritable sylvan nymph of cookery.
Hamlet had picketed his animals to
Craze on the delicious grass along the
creek, and had just come back to the
wagon when q horseman came riding to-
ward the camp.
In the roseate tints of sunset Hamlet
saw that the stranger was young man
Of about twenty-six, handsome and
straight as a pine. He wore q semi
Indian suit of fancifully fringed leather,
and his light curly hair reached to his
massive shoulders from under his wide
sombrero.
He rode up to the wagon and halted
before Adam.
"Good evening, stranger!" he greeted
the mover.
"Good evenin' ,sirI" returned the hunch-
back, looking admiringly at the stran.
gers fine pony and tasteful equipments
"What pint air yer aimin' fur, stran.
gerr asked the horseman, his blue eyes
following the movements Of Nancy az
she busted herself with the cooking over
the little camp fire, just beyond the spot
where he had reined in. He could not
help thinking what q pleasant picture
the girl made in her dark calico dress
and large checked apron, while the aroma
Of the coffee and frying bacon which rosa
on the prairie air was very alluring, in
deed, to q vigorous, hungry man.
II be aimin' fur Cherokee county, :"
answered Hamlet.
eyer don't sayI'
Eyes; I've swapped fur q claim down
ther."
"Wherbouts!"
"On q stream thets called Deer creek. I"
SWELL I'm glad o that. l live nigh
Deer creek myself"
fnet sor and Hamlet regarded ms
future neighbor with fresh interest.
"Yes, I have q cattle ranch near the
Neosho river, bout five miles southwest
O. Deer creek. Wher yer from, stranger"
"From Qlinoy,"
u understood yer yer say as yerd
swapped tur somepodys CLAIM Gown
tner: VINO oia yer swap witnr
k render.
srest SCOUT haS Ak IeLs tner country
Iua sOOu ~ sMaPPeo On ms cla
1es' tneres Nc oouDs aoout y, Ar,
tur we ma1e = Ia,r an squAL Isoe' aS
my ~ 1aLSsr si.a NsnGy s,SS.; srar can % ses'liy
~ ~, uyuvtll NJ ~. yer Molu, stL1uge,,
as az Vnly X hAu mgn.y VnaDie
plece Q slle On Deer creek; ana ~ olGnt
never seem - et no Aeereo 70 part WIN
"
"a. va, & yeL seS SDaUe renaeE come co, s OacE 70 =,
ms lolky PuIty noLneslcE, an neSrln u
my wansan " ~ guy 70 nAnsAs, ne 1est
" ~ oneIeu 70 IlIhs swap ., nus
clalnI IOs Son,s sIocs n'u' % Ine lAno'
yea sAy' = va "olo.
yes, Lk Fender 9 cialm Is tne pest on
Deer creek; but yer new no wri1ns 70
prove tne cialms yers' nev yerr
"Notnin only TX renders own wrian
70 say tner swap Is genywlne. ne said
he hadn't never contracted ter the
CLAIM
mo. tur reckon Il hke some otner
cnapS Know wasn't keerin 70 nev the
iano leag1eS gls up neckae social FUR
his special benetit."