Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-01
JACK AND IIAlDEE.


"Paul, Oh. Paul, come here; dor called
out Mn. Greyiock from the cabin door :
as she held in hor hand letior we had .
lust brought in from the store where the |
pos,oillcc was.
"All right, old woman, I'm a.comir .
right along" came in thodDcp tones oi
her husbands voice, as the old man
s,rodo in from tho barn whats the
row.
ITS letter from iiaidi9, an sho's go,
boy, an Jack wants Il called after
you" said Mrs Gtcylocl;, all in a breath.
"wa.nl, call that handsome IN Jack
Futniss, blcs, cf don't An Iluideof
got o baly-why. sho! Old woman, you
and IS grandfather. Hpop" Aud the
oil man fairly jumped al the ground in
llB excitement
After tho letter had ican read and 70.
read b. the delighted couple aiyd com
mcn,od on during supper, Paul told Us
tho storyof hs daughters marriage as
W. rat around the hruin tho evening.
"To thnlg u IiaililB hnvin baby"
began the old man: 'iwhy, II don't seem
but ycgtc;dsy whom ,ho was a baby hci
own self. You see, ny old woman there
had giyenmc six boy, one artcr another,
M nico fdlors thcy.wGg, too, II do say
IT, Thcykcpt the cabin lively, / tell
YOU, with,heir tricls an games an sich,
but somnmos | ufsd 10 thinl, It I'D be
Kind OF u Afant t1have u girl round.
didn't "a, nothin ~ the kind, but the
old woman knowa what were tEinkil
about, M 1 guest that sho wcro as glad
~ bo wien Haii.c wcro born.
"Tha way she 4 her namo were kind
OF curiOpi, too. er, as far as 1 know,
none Of he Grcyocks nor the old won.
ans folloes cy9 were called no such
namo afoIc. Hut n month afUro she
was born, we wiu Twin hero in ToSnf
an tho connirywero pretty Wild, an a
stranger camo ilug nu asked 90 top on
Night. Waal, D. course wo took him
~, an tho old Noman she gayo him q
good supper. Ia tho mornlu ho went
away, hul he bopped outer his saddle
llgs some loafos or book. dgnuu
what tho b0f were. Only II woro writ
ia poetry an ] told how romo GrOaloi
(McHcam Calll Don Juan were wrecked
on an islap,lan bow ho como across
fomo girl mad q Haidoo, an amonstyou.
likcly girl ID must hayo hin from tie
story. 'CouIl as tho book were writ,
Ehu wcr- thebgotiicst girl you ever eco
an my old wusnn's mind jus, got rot on
tnlt girl, 20 when lla.doo wofl born
nothin woul srit hcr hut namin tn,
child for ,heiri in the book.
"Wo didrt have hut two or three
leaves, an " didn't know notldn bout
the young wman afterwards, only jest
how sho ljocd. / didn't have 40 ioc
ton to thu nmo, an 80 our baby wor'
called HIeo, an wero baptized by
Alcthody cicuit rider named llnwson
don't reminder no great much bon
him 'coptla were a tOrrihlo man 20 eat
an no rojoiho poorest crittor | over see
Wa'al, Hidoo growed up healthy NJ
strong, arho wero just the life oil III,
houseS 50 were as prctty--wn'al, sh,
were as petty US sho coald bei no gir
could be any prottier, an her motho
JNHN AlANhAA wv WIN Va AANAs
Time rent on, IN Haidoe growod NJ
10 be soyateon, an the young iollors be
gan TO coio round the cabin good deal
noycr'picioncd what they como 10
moron D mule 'spicions what kind o
work he'goin 20 do when you're hroal,il
him, an used TO think they come q
hear nietcll stories. The old wolna,
was shifer than me. but sho never lc
on; an tar rot an told them boy
stories, q didn't know no more whn
wcro goi on than coyote do bout pol
tics. Thr were one Teller in parHo'lcl
Jack Fvniss by name, who used {
come but three times u week. fl
We're ahe, manly sort Of a chap, u goo
fronti,rnan, good fighter, tho h
woront cry old, an liked him. Fact
llikodlm no much that always aiko
him 10 ono again whom he'd get up
80. Jhk were always maxim mo pre-.
ents; hgin me that revolver over thai
au no W oyerlas,iHly brmgin wild tul
Keys o yonison or bar meat TO the Of
woman
81 usl to wonder sometimes what O
earth done It for, but then | didn
have nmuch sense Us u moccasin small
in tllei days, Ono day jack an mo wei
stand out by tho corral an he SCENE
ncryo, Ike, an aaked him what WEI
tho niihr, when he up M told me !
wanto o marry Hailec, Boys, /
ruthca farm sight ho'd knock mo dow
with mIul; mover had no such tur
In m Ifo. lie wont on with u lon
ttrinf flut how no loved her an ho
he'd TX for her an dunno what els
but Int hear hiin--l were thinkin
Haidl Last broke out, You must
afo, ,an guess | sworo somo-'i
thn marrying that child Child