The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-22
A WEEK LNI7TEE' WOODS.

VI OOu4SC, Liz SNOIy Ol OuT cdHlDliS
out isn't very unlike those which could
be told by others who go out fishing
and shooting, but the most people who
take outings never have a chance to
tell all about it, as does a fellow who
makes q. living writing up matters Of
general interest. and matters which are
sometimes not of general interest
The man who invented vaca tions was
a benefactor of the human race A
vacation, in this connection. means a
time when a person can drop all holds
on work and abandon himself to the de-
nights CT driving in a lumber wagon
some so miles from the place where one
earns his daily bread, and revel in tine
delights of doing some thing else equally
as hard, yet lacking IT. the similarity
which greets ones efforts in all other
days of the year.
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The madame had it all planned for
weeks before the time came. We would
rot go alone; the major and his family
would so with us The major wasn't
consulted at all; the maioTess was the
person wh9 made the arrangements
But the major came to time all right:
said he would submit to the inevitable,
although il was hard for a man to sur
render to his inferior in rank. and so
we went.
The madame constituted me chief
commissary Of subsistence and then said
she would go with me when the sup
plies We're purchased. She is all right
on buying things for home life; that
existence which one lives by buying
stuff from day to day; where. If one
runs out Of bread. one can go to the
BAKERY a block away, but when it
comes to getting a lot of grub for
Zine people. four of them growing and
their appetltes keeping pace with the
increase in their girths and stature,
then matters are different. She knew
that we wanted some bacon. as a
starter. and that coffee was good
thlng TO have in camp, with sugar in it.
She had vague idea of flour and had
heard somewhere that beans were good
eating, 1ld that potatoes. came in oc-
caslonally for a change.
Beyond that there was nothing worth
mentioning in her suggestions, except
those things which she declared we
ought not to have
To a fellow who has been in a. wild
country. where the nearest grocery
store was Sc miles away. and has had
his flour run out and his oven grow
rusty for lack of use in baking, the idea
of running short of bread stuffs is ap-
palhng. Straight meat. carved from the
bosom of a pig, whose only object in
life is the eating of everything in sight
and the caring for a numerous progeny
is all right as a novelty. but one pals
on 1t after "a hours or So
The mazda ma thOl1 oh nd of
-four would be enough for ten days, and
made such a 81 anuouS objection to
buying any more. that for the sake of
peace in the family, the extra 25 con-
tenDlated was omitted. But by con-
ming the grocer's clerk when she WASH t
looking, a small sack of yellow corn
meal was substituted, and ii came in
right handy.
1t would be too long a story to tell
all about it. but when the wagon was
loaded the madame was certain that we
would have to tote a whole lot of good
stuff back home, and she was everlast-
ingly sure that we would have canned
beams and other truck ON hand to last
US away into the fall.
That's Just like woman. Give a
woman a chance to pack a mess chest.
and the result would doubtless be about
three jelly cakes, a couple of cans of
beans. a bottle of pickles, some cold
ham and little bread. With a pornd
Of coffee or so, and a package of re =
with a paper of Saratoga chips.
We lifted ourselves into the wagon at
an early hour on Saturday morning, a
couple of weeks ago. So early that the
juniors wondered why on earth it was
n oct in tina Tipht hl-
gin a vacation. There were five of us.
including the cook, who is a nice sort
Of a, girl, very handy to have around
the house and in camp. She has pro-
pensity for cleaning up things, how
ever, which came very near wrecking
our happiness. She wanted 10 take
down one of the tents and wash it. 50
it would be pure white TO match the
other which was an unused ore. The
major. however. showed himself 80 be
a good man in shat emergency. He told
her the cloth would shrink 50 that she
would have to sleep half way out OF
doors. and that settled is.
A viuainous man from Omaha Who
rents teams to take people up the can
yon had made an agreement to fur
nish us with a spring wagon in which
to enjoy the journey; one of those
wagons where you sit under a cover
and enjoy everything, even the show
ers. He failed to connect at the last
moment, and another man had to be
found He had a good team, but the
wagon wouldn't exactly answer for tia
transportation of q man with leg on
to the hospital.
The weather looked fine when we
started. and were joined down on Ninth
East by the major and his party. be-
hind his cavallo. 1t kept fine until we
got out by the penitentiary. and then
it commenced to rain, and at the same
time the mistress of the family began
to reign. She objected to getting wet
and intimated that a man who would
start away with people on a trip like
that with no bows and cover on his
wagon was not a good Christian, and
all that sort of thing, and fearing lest
her remarks should injure his feelings
she was covered With a pauljn, the
weight of which, she averred, nearly
broke her neck.
After riding through soaking
shower we reached the water works tc
find the dust flying. SO the paufin was
removed It stayed off until Kimball's
was reached, and then it came in use
for hours.
That is curious section of country
The sun shone in all his brilliancy, .bu
it rained. No, it poured. The water
came down in little streams, 1t ran il
the crsases of the paulin and down OF
the seat where the better half sat ant
made her angry. The Juniors didn'
appreciate it, either, although the ell
der declared he was going to be a sol
der, and bravely took his wetting and
three quinine capsules right after. Tht
cook was driving-she likes horses. and
she never uttered a word Of complaint
although she was dripping.
The major didn't have top buggy
either, and he and his command go
very wet. The majoress sassed" hin