Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-06-11

red-headed, black headed, white headed
and brown. She was one Of the dark
ones, and if there was pretsier among
ythe whole twenty three girls never saw
her. Most of them were as ugly as sin.
Her mother, quiet little woman from
Louisiana, had settled 10 a valley By her
self, about ten miles from Lucin's. She
had quite ranch that the old man had
left her and uboat three hundred head
Hers was the XB brand, with a saw
tooth slit in the left ear She had
Cinnamon at work on the ranch-a
strange thing for Mormon But there
was white man in charge Of things for
her. He was the hulkingest big Nor
mon that ever | saw. Not bad lookiAc .
was Ephraim Dorkin. Splendid shout
ders, big heavy neck, a head like Goliah
and hoofs on him Ike any Missourian.
He Was proud, and he wore twelves
when be should have worn fourteens.
and the boys used to say that his boots
were full of feet. Yes, he was proud,
and he had reason TO be when YOU put
HIM alongside Of the rest of the male
Mormons thereabout. They were ugly
brutcs, most cf them.
Yau conl see at once that Big Dor kin
tLouoh he owned Jess Reams+er. Jess
did not wear thc poke bonnots of the
rest Of the women of Mormondom, nor
that ugly gown that you see on them that
hangs straiy iyht down on three sides, is
short in front and trails in pointed
pennant behind. No, she l.arnesse,. as
she pleased, aad she always looked trim
anl interested You. Iier mother didn't
care. In fact. she leaned 4 bit toward
the reformed Latter Day Saints and the
revised Book Of Mormon, and she dldn
believe that the Lord would strike her
daughter dead if she came out lookln"
rather smart now and then.
When Monte first saw that girl she
had on Il pink something and little fiat,
red hat with beads on it and 4 dotted
vel! that came down to her lips. The
combination struck him right between
the eyes He was Eorc babylSh than
ever after that, and when Shorty Spence
laid out Frank Van Zile, he wet his hand
kerchief so that you could have wrung
out enough tears from it to have watercd
a sheep.
demonstrated with Monte.
.lcu can't 60 in for Mormons,
grecny,' said |, in my of hand way.
"Why don't you marry !, greaser girl,
and be done with it. Shed make it
lively for you-the 9reaser Would--Dut
! She wouldn't be bothering about 'the or
/ dinances, the Paraclete, 'the imposition
Of hands, the endowments' and the
seven bulls Of Bashan.
Il amt yo;n' to let her 90 anything of
that sort if ! marry her" said Monte !,
with his Maine twaug.
"Yes, you will And the tribe will
curse YOU for a Gentle aud all the peO-
pie will say amen You cant get
around It, You'll have to enter into
/ Zion Yourself and become i saint with
the rest Of them, if YOU do this unholy
thing
Monte rctectc while he drove Il steer
into the corral But what did the sap
headed young bull puncher do but 60
over to Beamster's place that very night.
Now, knew Big Dorkin wonsdn't
stand much Of that sort of thin, and
was GLAD when Monte told me next da,
that he had had big row with the large
man, and that he had been ordered on
the ranch.
..The covotes will be eating you il
about 4 week, Girly, | SAID, "unles
YOU k, ,ep away from there Dorkin is
dead shot.
Monte whipped out his siN-shoote
and, without Slancing At the sight.
pumped a naihea in the door Of the
lugout fifty feet away. It was the onl
nalhead you could see from where W
stood, and il was rafting gooi shot.
, Il kiu shoot, too" he said, yer,
quietly.
, The baby Yves getting its teeth.
don't know how Ire got OF with Ies
after that, but he seemed TO he light
, hearted enou. b. aud take it that Sd
liked his down East ways, his twang an
his fresh. clean look, for he got her pic
{ (ture and sent to Eureka for brooch.
, wondered when Dorhin would XII
, him Til. time would not be far away
, felt sure. The big fellow came up t
, Lucin's every Saturday night, and | DO