The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-07

! a cried" remarked Drusilla.
At this Jemimy broke down. Look
Yer, niger, You better stop foolin'
wild me. De mex time you do LAX you
done done. L gwine ter kill you. You
near dat?"
Whereupon Jemimy flouted out and
went into the kitchen, where she went
about breakfast with surprising ener-
Sy, talking to herself all the time.
1t is impossible to describe the keen
disappointment of Buster John when
he came down to breakfast and learned
/ of the remarkable events of the night
F, He was disappointed, first. because he
! had not been kidnapped with the rest;
and, second. because he had not been
/ walked IL join in the search. He had
an idea that he had been treated I'M
fairly, not by any particular person or
persons. but in some way. Ii was just
/ his luck, he said. TO be left out when
anything very interesting was going TO
! happen. He recalled the day he re-
manned at home from school on some
slight excuse, and pack of hounds
ran a gray fox right up to the school
! house door and caught it there; and
! a little later the same day the boys
found a partridge nest right on the
verge of the playground, and the nest
had seventeen beautiful eggs in it.
There were other occasions that he re-
membered. and he said TO himself and
to others that it was pretty hard that
girl should be having such a fine time
while he was asleep in bed.
/ But Sweetest Susan declared that it
wasn't such fine thing, after all She
was asleep. and didn't know anything
about it. Nevertheless, she felt that
she had grown in Importance by taking
part in the adventure, and she put on
some of those airs which are very cute
in girls of her age, but which are-well,
not so cute in grown women
Buster John submitted to them with
very good grace, considering that he
was spirited boy. He knew he would
have done some strutting himself if
Sweetest SuSan's adventures had been
his. As it was, he contented himself
with assertions as to what he would
have done had he been in the wagon
he might have gone TO sleep at first
he said, but just as sure as anything
he would have walked when the wagon
Jolted over rock or a lump in the
road, and then-well, suffice it to say,
that WAGNER would have found him
self in deep trouble. Buster John
would have pulled out his pistol
Why. you haven't any pistol: you
know you haven't" cried Sweetest
Susan.
We'll, I'd have had one if I had been
IN the wagon. l would have guessed
what was gong to happen.
How came YOU didn't" inquired
Drusilla, at this point. "Why'n't YOU
guess we Tuz gwine ter drop off ter
sleep? An why'n't you stay down dar
an wake we-ali up? / don't like dish
yer kinder guessin' what guesses when
dey amt no need er guessin'''
But Buster John insisted that he |
would have borrowed his grandfather's !
pistol, and hid himself in the wagon;
and when they came to some dark and |
lonely spot in the road. then and there |
he would have demanded satisfaction.
HUH He'd "a gil you sati'faction,"
exclaimed Drusilla He'd "a grabbed |
you an rolled yo' head in one er dem |
blankets, an eff dat amt satify you,
der a 81 you sumpn else"
That's all you know about pistols |
said Buster john. imperiously.
No needs ter know bout pistols" re- |
pled Drusiila, when You know bout
folks. Why. honey. dat ar man would |
"a eat YOU I'D eff you des so much ez
bat yo' eye at i'm, Amt l done see de
way he chaw vittles, an how he talk
long wild hisse'f?"
Nevertheless, Buster John insisted |
that he would have rescued the cap
tives and brought them home in tri-
umph.
AS may be supposed, the strange add
venture of Sweetest Susan and Dru-
silla afforded a subject for great deal
Of gossip on the plantation and in the
country, and the children