Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-13

lOokln 1Olks-WhAtS kOD Their way an
wants sumpin' feat jes' as quick az
9 they kin git it. Lucky I baked
yistc'day, an had that hen on a-cook.
in Jump, now, an take yore min
off'n yore readin' long huff to hep me
git tn dinner" and a TAN, thin woman,
with scanty gray hair drawn tightly
back from a sallow face, returned ia
the front room of a small weather
stained, story-and-a-half frame house
where che had left one of her guests
q lady in a plain gray travelling dress
standing in the doorway looking out
across the broad, level expanse of bot
tom" land stretching away from the
hills nearby to the Missouri river.
"Take tn rockin' cheer, ma'am, an
rest yorese'f," said the hostess, pulling
a table to the center of the room, COW
ering it with a coarse but snowy cloth
and bringing the dishes from the kftch-
en- as she talked. "Yu mus be pow'ful
hongry If 70 got yore brekfus to
Whites. They do soy they hain't never
nothin' fit to eat there. Strange how
yu missed tn road to Jim Banion'e
leastways tn place what he runs fur
some eastern man; hits bout five mile
frum here, up t'other side tn Maple.
Hope tn gentleman hain't havin' no
trouble findin' tn feed. Theys a-plenty
out there. Jerry-that's myson-went
over to town this mornin' an hain't
got back, an my Of mans out a-hunt-
in. They hain't nothin' Dan Holten
loves better'n snoopin' 'roun' with his
gun, less'n hits a-playin' on his fiddle,
or readin' a story book. Missoury Hell
eny"-going into the kitchen-'is them
taters a-bilin'? That gurl"-coming
back to place a dish Of sliced cucumbers
on the tablets jest like her pa fur
readin' ey'ry scrap O. print she kin lay
her hans on, an she's crazy to git q
edication an learn music. 1 lets her
go to school when they is any, an she
knows bout as much now, as tn las
teacher, though she hain't but Is las
May. Her pa named her fur tn state
come from an a liam wher Bony-
part wuz shet up to keep him out'n mis-
chief. Well, I reckon dinners ready if
yu air." and she brought in a platter
of stewed chicken which sent up an ap-
petizing odor.
Passing shyly in and out, assisting
the laxative woman, was a slender,
young girl in a faded blue
calico dress. She scarcely lifted the
long dark lashes yelling a pair Of deep
blue eyes, and slipped away to her in
reading the moment the
meal was ready.
Hugh Ramsey, q young New York
and his sister, Mrs. Zadhh Nor
rison, were on their way to Omaha,
where Mrs. Morrison purposed spend
ing some time with a former school
before joining her brother in
Colorado, where he was going to look
some mining property. At al
mail town, between Sioux City and
Council Bluffs, they left the train, that
August morning, to visit a farm
dozen miles or so distant, which had
been left to Mrs. Morrison by an uncle.
After an Unsatisfactory breakfast,
hey hired q pair Of horses and an open
buggy and, mistaking the direction,
wandered about until noon found them
cry hungry, at the Holten place. They
lad not expected much from the ap-
of the house and its mis-
ress, and enjoyed all the more the ex-
eAent meal so soon ready for them,
which they proceeded on their
way, taking the right road this time.
Hugh, do you remember MissouryI
the pretty girl where we got
UGH a good dinner the day we we're
ost on u way to my Iowa farm?"
.sked Mrs. Morrison. the evening after
arrival at Colorado Springs.
II remember the ridiculous name,"
nswered Hugh Ramsey, lying at ease
n . lounge in his sisters room, "and
he woman, and, best Of all, the din /
er; but I can't say that I remember
luch about the girl. A thin, ~colorless ,
tile thing, wasn't she?" 9
Nrs. Morrison laughed and. dravino
er low chair nearer. ran her hnoers
his curly locks.
.You were hungry not n notice.
a rettv c;rli Sbe !. rsthar NJ 7
nd -colorless now. but .he viii ba . {
eauty n Of these days, I promise ;
ou. I was hungry. too. Int 4hara wa. I
,metbinp 20 sweet about her. and I
her mother said a.s;ra 7
J, learn haunted me so that 1 went up !
here one day and arranged for Lena J, ,
i won't call her by that dreadful (
.me-to enter st. Mary's. at Omaha. .
" two years, Her mother. who il an =
Methodist. Objected AZ l