The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-13
IN RATIFICATION OF roBTs STATEMENT.

ever since I left the Cross Rail ranch,
AM though it's been pretty rocky, We
srof alcng. but maybe ids'S been growing
worse and I've not noticed it, Tor II as
accommodatin a, dog as Burdock turns
his back on it, it must be Downright
awful 1 think a mighty SIGHT OF thar
dog. for he's smart, If he amt pretty,
end l want to take good care OF hsIn-
but if he won't eat slap jack and pa
con grease fixed I'D as goOd as know
how. what's he goin' to I've on? Fer
there lint 4 woman this side of Cord
wood. an none of them could be hired
II, come over here since the county seat
fuss
REACHED THE TOWNSHIP POINT.
The dog. with apparent unconscious
ness. stared straight along his nose al
the wall His breathing expressed, al
most as plainly as speech, the feeling
of one who had borne much, but Tor
whom the turning point was reached,
who had PATIENTLY endured innumerable
indignitiesl but who now, solemnly and
loftily. declared rebellion.
The man picked up the plate Of bat
ter cake and added it to the pile of IN
washed stone china on the greasy table,
then COMPREHENSIVE swept his eye
over the room. 1t was the interior OF a
hillside dugout with deep cased, dingy
plastered walls of rough, brown sand
stone. ceiling of unplaned cottonwood
DsanlSs. between which sifted the dirt
from the sod thatch, and the floor Of
the same boards, greasy and dirty. OPP
posita the rusty cook stove and dish
Iaden table was a bed, with straw mat
fress and rough. brown blankets, while
2 rude chest, a broken backed wooden
chair and a pine box or two comprised
the seating CAPACITY of the room.
YES. Burdock." he affirmed, my
c9olxin's rocky. bllt SOS the rest of our
layout l wouldn't blame you- beln1 a
dog of sense, If you'd pun out an go
back to Gods country, where You could
see a woman now an then. an eat her
coosia'. If there was on in the country
who'd work here, I'd surely hire her to
come
Rursock did not change his position,
sut his straight, slender tail, hitherto
living Imply on the floor. scraped back
and forth on the boards, as though in
[soYnmendation Of this speech. This ac-
S.on. patronizing though it was, lobe
accepted as a concession, and, after a
moments thought, continued.
LOOKING FOR A COOK.
ssTell you what, Burdocl, I'm going
over to Sadler's today. to see about
that t,ay land. and III try to find some
L
can't III think up some other plan.
I'm not. going 10 let you staTve if I
have TO sell The ranch an take you
back to New York, to that board6n'
house of Delmonny&ose."
The sun was slanting far past the
meridian when Burdock met lobe at
the section line, a half mile from home.
An interesting expression possessed the
dog from his solemn face to the tip Of
his tail He had never before. when
left in charge, gone so far, and lobe
decided at once that interest in the sue
cess of his er1and brought the dog
trna'a the house.
- rs no use bein' cheerful, Bur-
dock he said disconSoiately. i've
been all over, lool1in for some woman.
man. or boy, to cook for US, but the
only ones that can cook are off with
the thrashin' gangs for the summer.
But / borrowed Mis- Saddler's cook
book. seem as she don't cook much
bun salt pork and p'tatoes, an I'll read
up. am try to put in some trimmins
after this.
g5ut Rurdock refused to- be cast down
as lie walked along beside his MASTER
s.zmaa,ly wagging his tail. IS his horse
turned the corner, around the clump Of
cortopwooEls that screened the door of
the dugouJ, j dingy emigrant outfit
met T9be's gaze. The wea1heribeate ten
wagon, sorry looking horses, even the
battered pail hanging at the back, be-
tokened dilapidarion.
Near by, on a block of wood beside
the door-Tobe's favorite seat in the
evening. with Burdock at his knee
sat a woman. A better judge of femi-
nsnity than lobe could not have told
whether she was young or old, her
huge sunbonnet coneealing her face,
and her limp gown concealed any
youthfulness Of figure. as she sat with
her hands in her lap and her head.
dropping. the picture Of detection.
Burdock walked straight to her side.