Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1899-07-14

pHhN Hstii sang out-
Master, track sit dcwn-one feilcw
cow and calf. neither fellow track ygra-
man holongin 10 white fellow. That one
been fetch i'm up "
Snowfall locked hcenlv ~ the ground.
and where We could sec neither sign
nor "a mark he seemed to read his moth
er earth as If IT Were an open book
(which way yon think it camp rit
down. Snowflake" Norah Mackenzie
asked.
II arorscd ones wonder ~ note how
trippingly the pigeon English came
from her lips
A breath of wind ever SO faint just
tim harpoacd 70 bo 'traying down the
valley, and Vary threw back his head
and turned his broad noS,riis toward il
II { ink IL that way All a-same wny
that o.ie tulocky so, me smell nm fire
ink some fellow bin roast un bal
locky alonga fire. .
Long way away Vary, you think
ity she asked soberly but | could see
her eyes sparkle. She knew that this
was riddle, for one thing the Austria
han hiucks can never do is to estimate
distance. They are utterly devoid of
that faculty called sense OF number,
and their replies for they do not like
to confess their ignorance often
very amusing
We'll. Vary, repeated Norah Mac
kenzie feigning impatienee, "how
many miles you think il 10 where bull
locky sit DOWN."
As have said before. IL was a riddl.
and Vary scratched his head. Savages
scratch their heads when puzzled all the
world over whether they are white or
black But iarry answered with an air
of sang troid and suifreme conviction
II rec miles. maybe; might be two,
you know Oh. well. seben miles |
tink it,
And with this ambiguous piece of in
formation Earry smiled with a sense II
superior Intelligence and went on
ahead to follow up the tracks. Vary
resembled a Scotsman or some gentle
man of the legal persuasion in that ho
declined 10 commit himself to any spe
citic statement
"Do you think the fellow smells fire
a'ih tt'hN aottai'hk wa ~ 'atN
Norah Mackenzie There lot of mi,
raculous stuff talked about these chaps
but | cant smell fire. let alone the
roast.
That doesn't prevent them smell
ing, laughingly replied the girl ''llad
we been born n few thousand years ago,
when people hunted for living. I've
an i.oa that our nostiils would have
been just as handsomely lr0ad as Snr
ry's. II : sad 10 think what we We lost
through civilization. isn I il y
"Now that | think of it, you re
right. commented Jack thoughtfully
"Of course the law Of 'di.nss can ac-
count for the modification of our noses
You know your Darwin better than
do
Never read him in my life. was
the candid rcjoinder
"But you don't mean 10 say you dis
covered flat truth for yourselff" Jack
persisted.
Il did, honest lnjunl +" she protest
ed, with mock rrayity. ''Bnt then it's
perhaps not altogether matter Of in
telleet Jack looked somewhat foolish
There are plenty Of proofs every
whore. Now, dare say IN what some
Of your hluestockings would call very
ignorant young person, because don t
know much about books aud haven I
got hundred different theories on the
tip of my tongue. hut do know enough
to prevent my becoming u miserable
aRnostic like some Of them Evolution
may be as broad as it's long. but il
doosu quite fill the bin That's 10 say
il isn' I every thing. Ii = only when one
goes direct 10 nature and finds ont how
beautifully IL all fits into our lives thai
one can see IL y only "a little hit Of n
great big design OF course book learn
ing = n great thing IL = only those wha
won't look beyond them. who won /
take time to study the proofs for them
selves. that IN sorry for | don't sup
pose. however. II matters wha: think.
Here she abruptly made "A laughing
remark about one of the black boys and
changed the subject
The particular cattle tracks we were
following were now lost in many others
and number of fresh horse tracks be
came visible We were evidently get.
ting near the place whore the cattle
were running We slcirtcd the base Of
high. wave worn bluff. down the sides
Of which spring of water trickled
shaded by a group of magnificent feather
palms then we heard the crack OF n
stock whip aud the distant believing Of
mob q cattle We could distinctly
smell fire. and SNOWFALL corroborated
Yarry' assertion that he rmailed ''hnl
Ncky3 roasting AT length we came 10
! beautiful open piece Of country
bordering on the lagoonlike creek. and
about mile off could ree large mob
Of cattle being rounded MP for the night
and three or four mounted men riding
slowly round them. We could see the
bell tent Of the droyer. with bough
shed in from. Of it. and little farther
off two or three other tents At large
fire were two or three black boys roast
ing various parts Of a bullock. or. as
Gordon more CORRECTLY mt il "toastiDg