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

J0rney ana the rest OF us went 20 the
council and voted :, tax on every one
present. and made The major go to iowa
and buy butter and eggs and milk. He
got wonderful lot for $3.50 He said
/ the women charged 10 cents per pound
for butter and acted just as though
they We're robbing somebody. s"Butter
had riZ." We concealed the price from
the women lest we have to spend all
our spare cash for butter to bring
home. They might have mistaken the
whole business for a bargain counter
affair.
The clergyman and the rabbi used
to go fishing together. The clergyman
was sportsman while the rabbi was
not There was a distinction. The
clergyman used to catch more fish, but
the ribbi's would outweigh them. The
clergyman fished for trout and the
rabbi for herring. But they got along
all right and never disagreed on doc
trine; not once. The cook was happy
| most of the time when we were away.
except nights. Then she was pestered
With mountain rats, those little rogues
which come to the habitation of men
| and take away all little articles they
can find. He tried the COOKS stockings.
did one of them, but it was too large, so
he contented himself with snawing
away section of one and getting away
with that. Next night he took the bal
ance.
| Snakes were conspicuous for their
absence But the wood ticks made
matters just as lively as though the
snakes had been there. a good,
healthy wood tick is an energetic soird.
They are no respecter of persons, al
though it seemed from all appearances
! that they like young and tender people
| better than the seasoned. Perhaps
this was why the major and I escaped
| With But few attacks, while the juye-
nile, who slept in the center was an
noyed very much. and the feminines
across the avenue used to arise in the
night and light candles
| It's odd how an accident will change
| the complexion of affairs. When we
camped we selected place handy to
water-it was within 80 feet of the
camp stove-so the women could get
the water easy. The madame went
down after a bucketfuI and fell into
the stream She struck on carrying
water after that. There were no Incl
dents worthy Of mention connected
| With the strike. She had no indigna-
! ton meetings. hired no bands, had no
! speeches made, or anything of that
| sort, but the strike was a success Just
! the same.
Vegetable peddlers visited che camp
| every day. They came from Bounti-
full. up in Davis county. They had
melons and tomatoes and such stuff
| They claimed to charge Salt Lake
prices, but they prevaricated, too The
melons were small and expensive; the
| tomatoes culled stuff at 40 cents per
peck, measured in a can which only
held six quarts. The man looked ag-
grieved when we told him we came
away from Salt Lake to get rid of
eating vegetables. He said he thought
We were from Park City. Then he cut
| the prices SO 1-3 per cent on US
| We didn't get much fishing until the
last three days. Then the post master
came to our rescue. His name is
| Lyons and he used to work for The
Herald many, many years ago. While
| engaged on this paper he acquired a
! reputation for telling the truth which
he has never been able to shake off,
and he said to go up the river, turn
to the left on the little creek and we
| could catch some trout. We did so,
and caught trout and trout and trout.
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In the brightest days which have
faded and gone, bearing with them the
memory of many a happy hour, I
! brook like men do books. Everp ripple
| told a tale of concealed beauty; every
! dark pool had an anecdote. AS I
whisked my fiy over the water all this
! came back. There would be the swish
| of the line as the coachman flew across
! to the willows, then barely touching.
and whir-r-r-r would go the reel
Most of them were not big enough to
! give a man much of a struggle but
! n ont T
told since my return about one weigh
| ing three and a half pounds to several
! on the street, who have looked at me
4 in a wondering manner. L am sorry
didn't have a kodak with me, but it
was my misfortune. Just the same,
| ask the major. He {the fish, not the
.major), was slow to rise from the bot
tom of the pool where I found him.
! changed from professor to an abbey
! ere he came; but when he did, prudence
| left me. and Harry Dukes fishing rod
| needs a new tip as result. He fought
! like a, tiger. He went to the bottom
| but he didn't sulz a bit; just kept busy
all the time. Finally he came to the
surface and made an awful effort 20
| get away, but the silk line was made
| for just such an emergency, and it
held. Then he took down a rifle and
| that's where he lost his head. The
water was shallow and he did not
/ expect it. The major and [ collabor-
ated on him and landed him. We
weighed him at the store. The Oldest
inhabitant was in there at the time and
said he looked just like a fish he hooked
10 years ago up that same stream. and
when we told him where we caught
him. declared it was the identical
trout; said that variety never grew
any bigger. The old man acted as if
he had a prior claim on him and re-
marked several times that he would
enjoy eating a bit of that trout. We
invited him over to breakfast, and he
came. We had breakfast at and he
arrived at Z. We were sorry for him.
but it couldn't be helped; peoples ap-
petites are something wonderful when
out camping.
The juvenile is bound to be a nat
uralist. He came up innocently and
wanted to know what kind of an ami
NAL it was that had white stripes on
a. black coat, and a sharp nose. We
told him there were several kinds and
asked why the query. He declared he
had killed one with a rock and was
afraid to touch it until he had ascer-
tanned We went with him., It was a
young one and the dornick had done
its work we'll. 1t was a pole cat The
Juvenile asked why it was called pole
cat and we borrowed enough from the
late Josh Billings to tell him that the
reason was people had generally to use
a pole in killing them. The lesson was
a lasting one. however and in future
skunks will not be molested at his
hands.
The -four ran out on Friday; the
beans followed in the afternoon; the
children cried for sorghum next morn