Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-08-31
A FEUD.

| teh you rank, It's got to the
point where something must be done. {"
| SAID Mrs. Burnett, and as she spoke
she raped at the small knuckles that
We're moving toward the sugar bowl.
Morton, aged 8, jerked his hand out of
the way and laughed at his mother.
VINO pursed up her lips to conceal a
smile. .
Don't do that, Morton" said Mr.,
Burnett. Then, turning to his wife. he
asked, What have they been doing
nOwT'
THAT boy had some more of his
crowd put tin cans along the top of
the fence, and then threw at them to
knock them Off About every other
stone went over the top of the fence
and went sailing across our back
yard. If one of them had struck any-
body, he wouldn't have known what
hurt him."
What did you do?'
What did l do? / went ont and
told them if they didn't stop I'd send
Tor a policeman. 1 said to that Deakin
boy, Its a shame your mother can't
teach you to be little better than a
savage. " a
doing it. were
I do believe she puts 'em TN to II.
Ihat boys enough to try the patience
of saint
Next time he comes into our ward
III bet | throw something at him"
put in Morton. whose chin was drin-
ping with a mild mixture of milk and
coffee. "uu
You leave him alone" said the male
parent. You get into enough fights
well, Frank, these boys are forever
picking on him." said Mrs. Burnett.
Boys are a good deal alike" re-
sponded her husband. IN bet when
ne gets out he's the same as the rest
of them.
Morton grinned and said nothing.
me only member of the Burnett
FAMILY who had not Joined in the ar.
e Ignment of the neighbors was Alice +
~ seers of age. She knew all about
ote leuu and shared in the suspicious
boz I -, iiioli.9r, but at present she was
20 u, pussy with her supper.
,,1, ne Deaklns lived next door and
an1 mere was a dividing fence II
T., 49, AepI me Two families apart
~ Ihe year curing ,~hich the two
- IotI hiu uWeu SHE by side
mere mad been a growing enm. y W.
WIS; Burnett had never spoken .rdn5
y Niis' Deakln, and her husband ki,,,,
iolnihs OF Mr.. Deakin, except that he
I'd Neu WIN ms hands for living
lome. evenings at
~ L. would have been rather difficult
vi eIlIei the Bun etts cr the Deakins
eApiaIh nov the feud started. but
he children. tiiiough
! there mere were two DeaFin children
q mieiice OF Larry, aged TO- and little {
lille, who, at the tender aoa - q
ad learned to regard tbe pr,,ott 7
ribe with scorn and hatred ana a',s !
er 10 some degree under tho ind;ani
es heaped upon his family nv az 7
EFT. "iton Bur !.
For when the Deakins sat around n
le supper table, and cast nm rho nn
1uhts of the day. it was Larry ,vbo .
ISed as the prosecuted and abusnd :
ma, While Morton Burnett was mic. :
Ired as an infant of dark intai,ts
saded straight for the brideweIl - -
II was q man Tom Deakinn :"
10 the wife, "I'll warrant Won IA az
er to that house and give notice thai - =,
lhgs are simply going too far To. ri
y that boy got on the fence. ana -,
iigd Lawrence all kinds of names" u
ne said that his mother had said ca
az ma didn't have clothes FIT to vi
,ar, suggested Lawrence, who had ',
gun 70 breathe hard during the 70. n
al of his grievances ie 10
ANYWAY q | don't try tc rake mvs4lr "
y IKE peacock every time / Start a.
church" scid Mrs Deakin. c ca