The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1899-04-28
FL SACUDIDOR |;
BY Manley n. Pike !
BY Mamie y II. Pike


Al HEN WIZ Low got home from
w northern Mexico, where he had
l,tn absent q year. ia company with his
father, who owned some property there.
Iiarles Foster and myself didn't lose
q mament in rushing over to see him,
sou may suppose. yet we hardly
l him at first. he had grown so much
taller and stouter. while as for his com
fNn. ! don't give the slightest idea
Nit ~ saying that he was sunburned.
N-s. Ae was only shade or two light
e.n genuine Congo negro.
ID. we found the same old VIII un-
Sst-c tan. and such achattering as we
t-e made-tr trying 10 give full ac-
at 81 a whole years happenings in
l-f an hour.
After awhile. however. we managed
toaliet down sufficiently 10 20 upstairs
rN look over Wills collection Of Gu
i'ries. ranging all the way from
fauatulas' nests up TO spears and war
clls. Among them was q chestful
q. Mexican clothing and ornaments.
r.A and elegant enough. some OF them;
a.a while Charley was turning these
c-er, he came upon something which
made him inquire. wondcringly:
why. VIII. what under the sun do
you keep this old thing among these
L x clothes fors''
IL was a common leather boot.
vrinkled. dusty. and half worn out.
wrapped around with a stout rawhide
ne. which we at once recognized rs
3 asso. The boot couldn't have amount
q. % much in its best days. and now,
with ragged cut extending all along
-e sole. as If il had been ripped up
With a dull knife. il was only tit for
ta ash-barrcl No wonder Charley
asked the question.
lows said VIII. Il think more OF
lis old boot than Of anything else you
= here. It's a mcmento OF the mar
sTest escape / ever had or expect 10
tsis; and besides, il reminds me when
trr | look at il that there are diff
frsnt kinds Of ability in this world.
srl that YOU must not always judge
rfnon according TO your own idea Of
raat he ought TO be-"
Tell US about it. won't your urged
Charley and /.
All VIII. holding the old boot IN his
taal. sat down between us, and be-
gaa:
After / was fairly settled out there
On fhe Los Pueblos ranch. | must say
ieit very lonesome Father was away
most of the time about mis- business.
aHl il wasn't generally convenient 10
'ase me with him. 50 WAS left to my
own resources for amusement, and few
enough they were.
The ranch buildings were simply
TWO adobe shanties. covered with red
gums. looking more ike sheds than
4scS. and no better inside than out.
iae Mexican and Indian poems, or hired
in lived in one. and Don Mereno, the
tMNrr. in the other.
The don was the proudcst and laz-
ias' mortal il has even been my luck
Ny mHt with. lie did nothing all day
Nf ne on a bench in the sun. smoking
'-Hrcttes-cxcept when he took nap
(which was about half the time Dc
f4sonaliy he'd ride over the ranch.
iitr.ntcnding matters. not often. for
seemed TO be too great an exertion
ior him.
ION see. the don was a pure Span
Afa descended straight from one of
tf old conquerors Of Mexico. I believe
and he was 50 proud Of the fact that
~ sii, ut all his time in thinking what
great man lac was, and SO had none left
.'r any other purpose If he had lived
town. he would soon have had the
ANnSensc taken out Of him, but out
mere on the plains he seldom saw any
ohe except his servants. and his con-
S''i and Iazincss had plenty Of room
q grow.
Ills son. Pablo. was entirely differ
Nh'. lie was about our age. and n hand
NV" boy, too. Such rider you never
"' and he could do things with a
.a's' that YOU wouldn't believe without
sene them.
We really managed the ranch, and