The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-22

II.
/ The bill of fare was:
Bread.
4 Bacon.
Beans, a la can,
More bacon.
Bread.
Coffee
They looked .astonished when the
/ driver picked his teeth with his fork,
! ana said that was the best meal he
mad eaten onothe road in months, and
sniffed in disgust at him when he read
the iaDel on the can and said he would
nave to get some of them himself next
time he came out. They said the per-
! yersrty OF man was something wonder
ful, and that meal was only fit for the
dog. by the way the dogs actions
! behed their statements.
Ihere is something funny about our
+ dog. AT, home he will not touch bread,
ana TO offer him beans would be to
1 accuse him Of being a vegetarian, an
/ accusation which he would resent at
once But there he ate anything and
| everything. He bolted bread and beans
ana ate bacon Just Hike any one, and
would have drank his coffee straight
only there wasn't enough to go round.
our destination was Peoa, a, small
town on the, Weber, where they raise
/ nay They raise something else. but
that comes later. From where we
canped down to the town exists the
most miserable piece of wagon road
that ever mortal man drove team over
1t must be that portion of Summit
county has no poll tax worked out,
! There isn't a fragment of thoroughfare
4 anywhere, except that on the summit
! down Tor five miles which Can hold a
candle to it.
i1lat reminds me- All the Way nm
Parleys the canyon road is good cross
Into Summit and you can see where the
farmers work their tax. 1t Isl where
| the dirt shovels easiest
I We rolled down a long. mill ttersm,olb
a small canyon to the river. Tt was a.
| Wild ride, for the cook was driving
| again, and she cannot see a stone in
the road after 4 o'c clock in the after
noon. She wiA make a good jeflu some
time, when She learns to dodge the
biggest ones. As the bottoms were
reached a camp fire was observed on
the right. From it's glEInrner came a.
strong voice 1Halloo, the team
/ Hi vi answered the major.
who is st71at?"
The major replied.
| Come over, this is Niekuan.''
sure enough, it was the crispette
man, with Rabbi Kaiser, Grandad
Weller and the three dogs.
we camped, and the old man and the
rabbi and Nick helped put up the
tents.
here the madam caused more trouble
She had insisted ON carrying mat
tresses and was only overruled by
clear faisehood. Until the time the
wagon reached there she believed they
were in the bottom. When she dis
covered they We're not, her next de-
n4nd ih.oI IJ1r I1.ll-. ~
She got half a ton that night from a
farmer who got up in his night shirt
to sell 1T. We knew the other people
! 1nere needed sleep also, so we bought
| 1t for harmony's sake. Otherwise She
must have waited.
Ntckum and Weller and the rabbi
had been fishing They hadn't caught
any trout. but they did have a mess of
| herring, which were beauties. The
rabbi kindly brought over some for
breakfast, and the madame in her good
ness determined that She would repay
that favor just as soon as an oopor-
! tunity presented itself. Tt came next
day at supper time. We had pork and
beans ard Germ bread. She sent the old
man a mess, with a wad of bacon ON
top as big as a double yolked goose
4 egg. When he sent it back by the
Juvenile who carried it, with thanks
When She saw Nickum and old man
! Weller rolling ON tine ground in ecstacy.
she nlarveled greatly.
4 sent that old man a. nice plate of
! pork. and bsans and a, chunk Of corn
bread, and he sent them back she de
clared in an injured tone II wonder
wlhat was the matter with them? and
Nickum and the old man seemed to be
having lots OF fun about it too"
DO YOU know who the Old man is?''
I asked.
No, except his name is Mr.. Kaiser. ,,
Well. he is the Hebrew rabbi over
in Salt Lake"
The apologies rendered were sent to
Rabbi Kaiser by special messenger, and
l noticed afterward that her respiration
was better after he left.
% % %
Trout were not biting when we got
there. although the juvenile hooked ONE
en- a worm. It was a nice one too, and
! the Juvenile was greatly excited. He
caught no more, however. Sometimes
| think tn's trout must have been dis
| appointed in love and wanted to sui
eide. The natives said the stream was
/ too high, but if that is the case the
Weber will be too high this entire sea-
son. TIE fact Is some miscreants nave
been using giant powder, or as the
natives say Joint" The slaughter mas
been terrible. We found small fish. by
the dozens, and once in q, while a big
one which had sank to the bottom ere
it could be recovered.
The natives over there are fishing for
herring. They caught them 100 and
the smaller the native the bigger the
string of fish he would have 4 shock
headed boy with about clothes enough
to wad a gun, with a bamboo pole
would come down the stream with a
string Of fish containing all the way
from six to IA and would linger N front
OF the camp with them. hooking enough
to make one wish he could get a bite.
The bishop of Peoa can preach a
sermon on the sin of prevaiication With
good effect. Because the native would
not conine himself to The truth at all.
When he was using Grasshoppers he
would aver he had helganites for bait
and that the herring wouldn't bite a
grasshopper at all When the reverse
was the case, ditto. He did that 20 sell
fish. We fooled him. At least one of
him.
This native was a tall man with red
whiskers and bright blue eye He
had seven herring and was fishing
across the stream from where the ma
jor and ! had been working for an hour
without getting a nibble. His hook
snagged and he broke it before getting
loose. Not until he had caught two
from under the majors line and made
the major so hot the water boiled in
his Waders.
"Consarn it," CALCULATED the fisher
man, that's the last hook l got and
I'm four miles from town. Either i
you fellers got any number skies o.
We had and we had plenty. We had
enough number skies TO catch all the
herring from Peoa to Ogden We told
him we had and offered him one hook