The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1897-03-11
AUNT sERESA.s SALT BAG

Gaid al3 rrtnaai u0oes, Indy. lo'
kaov ta.ks sfe slI rica down 10 Ass Ia,
IaEi replied Ibtp.
Aunt -stsua sauldt buag those
Uf eaarse she voolta't pot 10 that la1l
ber,sH camius from gse dvsliigg sbi5t
wss 30 be- 81 bone for year guess
kaas better taaa 60 briug snJtbins lk'
tb.t ont here Why douI you have 4
brasi -..k ius,ssd ol 4. dirt path TO youi
bou,o7
Ihlsl.ul Couuecltcui, Auut. ~ Tetas
au mighty nest 20 Panhandle, replied
Paul. liyou ri.it Ibs Texans. do ss the
TsIsps do 700 knos the provtrb,
lt nots proyerh and you DID Dot
quote i, correctly. but bury 10 With the
truuk
So he heavy burden vas. With mach
slrsibing Il musoles 90 tho part OF the
tv0 nephess, carried inside, bat the
youth = curiosity rtmsiUed uussiisdad
I've brought this tseulJ niles 10 a
wagon today. su ought to he told what's
10 1t, Insisted Paul
So they waited while Aunt Serena no
psoked,
Dressss, sprous. few keeps kes out
the articles came, ell light Of weight aud
/ furnishing 20 explanation Of the myttsry.
bat before The bottom was reached the
lid slammed shut and no more vas to be
seen.
Mighty funny she's so particular, com
mrnted Paul, as Theo aud himself sat on
their ponies the following day, couple
OF miles from the qabin. watching the big
cattle herd, I'm going to fui oat and
right soon, too.
Make a raid on the ttuok2
Don't klow, but gness 50, Father
aud uotber are going to take her over to
the school directors this afternoon. hi
make hunt then
And be di. Waeu he came back his
face was a study.
What dye hnd2 asked Iheo.
C0uldu't guess 1t 10 q thousand years,
Cold, SILVER, iron, horseshoes, beans,
bulets2
Your trail amt even warm its salt
What for2
How DO you suppose know I'm go
ing 0 ask her
But Paul dii not need to ask Aunt
Serena suspected that her belongings had
been tesrch.d and forsstaIled any com
@ents by remarking at the breakfast table
1t IL the puresl, finest salt uld get-s
hundred rounds oft I've lived too long
within smelling distance OF salt water to
risk having things fresh Even for visit
| wanted TO be prepared for emergencies,
and besides, suppose you stock salt 10
Jumps here.
Paul admitted that she was partly night
aud from that time the ranch table was
not without the il1ur lIks, refined product
Of the eastern salt works. The sack was
set inside the storeroom door and was the
subject OF many Joke 10 the family as
well as among the herderB
Even the sturdy uephews were not I
above referring to the "lreshness" that
their aunt expected to see in the south d
west,
Bat then It's just what you'd sllow to 1
8nd a scheol teacher doiu'. said Paul =
His contempt for school teachers. wss,
lowever, however, largely assumed and be
Wished he we're capable OF teaching the
eigbborhOod school, as his aunt was do II
ng, He longed for her knowledge Of d
,ooks every time be saw her crossing the Il
)rslre to the sod school house, a mile or
more from the ranch, where all the set Il
lers' children gathered. ~
But something tlss was OF more press S
ug mpor snce' The grass on the range VI
vas becoming short and the severe II
.routh had prevented the starting of t.
.ew growth. ~
W. must move the stock down nearer p
be ranch house, ordered the ehlei herder II
I'D the men allowed the cattle to grrz ls
loser to be catrtI. u
Five tLousaud head Of Texas cattlel
It.le sea OF horns, thin nervous faces, Il
bsrp backs aud svitcbiag tails It was v
difficult tblnR TO manage, an army that ii
kill slsae could control For man or "
orse sIbgly they had neither respect nor Al
taf; but d man on horse cynId rule ut
hem, provided thrre were enough men on re
oTs,s.
A. the bot GUNNER days merged into II
uluun, on rain Came to start the grass "
JmsIliag uueXsmpiad 10 the history Of ca
be rslch. TRu N three times the hsrders Of
Jund it necessary to drive the cattle sey III
ial miles to water, but the grass uear the st
.nch ou,e was largest because through sc
4e earliest pat Of the sesson the stock ae
al beeu kept a. some dlslatcs from the vi
ONE hesdluarter. 10
It seemed Ike being outside Of civillzs ID
on, said Autt Serena, coming home from lea
er school ole day aud looking out over VI
10 vast place on which we're feeding Ell lea
table Long horns
Nev I uiud, srll Paul, WHO came in At
lrt ben cl d ia ii, hetdtr costaHe. # ~
e dou'. ye spy bad luck aud got The ID
och TO mstkst sil night. m lske me into