Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-06-30
A FELLOWS LOVE.
BY HENRY ". NESFIELD.

large gum trets waved their 1eatDery
foliage In the evening air, and grand
background OF precipitous hills formed
splendid contrast TO the plains
across which Mrs Hall strained her
eyes In vain.
The sun had Just gone down behind
the hills, and only the brows OF the
dark peaks were tinged with it's last
rays. Thousands OF sheep which HAD
that day been shorn were bleating as
they streamed out from the yards
where they had all day been imprls-
oned. Horses grazed In the home pad
dock close by. side by side with the
mllk-cows. while shouts from the
yards told that the men had not yet
ceased from their labors.
MARY" Mrs. Hall called out pres
emily. as she heard some one moving
about inside the house, sis that you,
dear?
Yes, mother" replied tall 1.-The
looking girl as she stepped out through
French window on to the veranda.
Poor dear mother, you must be quite
Knocked up!"
II am tired. darling" admitted Mrs.
Hall. HAS Jack come up from the
shed yet"
No, not yet" answered the girl;
but supper is quite ready, and he
won't be long now. | expect"
II do hope that your father will
come home tonight He said he would
be ten days perhaps. 1t is now fort
night since he left"
II wonder whether he will have
managed to get a cook" said Mary,
as she sat on the edge OF the veranda
at her mothers feet. "All this cook
Ing is quite wearing you out. You
ought not to have to do IT,
II shall be all right after good
nights rest. and IL only your father
would come back! Can you see moth
ing offhim, Mary?"
NO. not sign" said the girl, "but
here is Jack. sooner than / expected.
Now let us go into supper, and begin"
A stalwart sunburnt youth strobe
up the garden path, and tossing his
cabbage-tree hat upon q chair, threw
himself at full length upon the grass
plat.
Well, Polly" he exclaimed. I'm
Just baked. ] can tell you'll l wish the |
governor would hurry home. Leav-
ing me all the shearing TO look after
Ia no catch All this brciling after
noon I've been drafting out strangers,
and working Just like a niger"
Mothers been working hard. too"
said Mary reproachfully. "And she
doesn't grumble. like you do"
mo, by Jove; but then the matters
IN angelr he answered, springing to
his feet and throwing his arms around
his mothers neck. II bet no angel
sver cooked dinner for seventy men.
With the Thermometer at a hundred and
EN- In the shade, without a murmur!
Oh. I'm not to be irreverent, mother?
Well. won't, to please you; but upon
ny word II was a shame OF that brute
Johnson to so off at moments mo-
Ice Just at the very busiest time"
"Never mind, Jack" interrupted
frs HALL as she leaned her head back
yer the rail on the lounge-chair and
lasped her hands behind her neck. .
Don't talk so much, but look out with ,
our young eyes and see II your father ,
) not coming In the distance"
"Or. In other words" said Jack,
Sister Ann. sister Ann, l
o you see some one coming?' No, I
,athor M opa-naltha,. nlroho..S -
ne governor. Talking OF blue. I Won I
or what our new Gordon bleu will be /
Ike. Drink like fish and swear like 7
trooper. suppose as they all do" d
Perhaps father won't have got one b
! ALL" observed Mary: "and. II so. n
pity you all. for I'm going to try S
y hand at cooking. stood with my b
ose close to the meat safe today to
rcak myself iato the smell OF raw d
eat. which alNays make me feel more
less H." y
'Pshaw--you might as well be an Q,
nglish grill" said Jack scornfully. 81
I you were anything like trump
,ud XIII as well as cook--Jennie 4,
NTH does" ST
Never mind: we don't want Mary 81
be quite such masculine person a. al
nnie." interposed Mrs. Hall: which oil
ought forth a rejolnder from Jack
At Miss Smlth was no end OF a Fl
ood fellow = AFTER which he suddenly
membered that he was hungry. and
ded hnrriedly-