The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-25

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| hot my face was burned, and Louise just
! ran back and forth from the creek with
! wet handkerchiefs 20 put over our fac 8.
! We worked all that night and all the
| next day and then some men passing on
| the road over there saw the smoke. They
came and worked, and about dark the fire
! was pretty well down ana only had 10 lie
| watched
Il was blaclzer than an Indian and so
was George and Louise. / never felt 30
queer in my life. / think / was what you
call faint. The men had something to cat
with them and they got some out for US.
1t was the first time | had sat down at
all"
The Way TO Gussie's Respect.
Another hunter, who can't tell quail
from sheep, or a COW from a deer, has
been about" said Louise and she dis
mounted. and after looking at a wounded
animal, put it beyond its misery with her
rife We rode on. Half an hour after
there was a shot from behind a pile Of
rocks.
"rhere he is now" and Gussie put her
spurs to her horse. and wheeled in the
direction and we after her. A youth from
the city by the picturesque dedapdation
Of his get up was aiming his rife into the
rocks.
you get off this range and don't you
shoot any more here, till you know a
sheep from a squirrel"
The devil you say" the youth answer
ed and fired.
L tell you this in my land and / don't
want you shooting here. If you don't move
off, I'll help you
He stopped and picked up a thick rat
tlesnake by the tail, looked at it critically
and threw it onto a pile and looked up at
the angry girl.
Sir or-Madam, / was about to invite
you to a thrashing to improve your man
nCrs-what are you anyhow
"Thrashing," and Gusse jumped off her
horse, Il might have something to say
about it."
Madam" and the youth removed the
remainder of a hat he wore and bowed
low Il always obey ladies, l go. ! pre-
sent you with my bag of game. "
Ten rattlesnakes lay dead on the rocks.
"rhey are .all shot through the head"
She was "A Diana to her finger tips and too
honest for diplomacy.
"Arn't they beauties? Mayn't 1 cure
skin for your
NO, l don't want snake skins, but
She looked away at me and a few days
later the young hunter brought me fine
skin and he had been invited to shoot
over the Lamm range
As we rode along the girls told tales
simply as other girls might tell of excur
sions, tales of hunts for mountain lion or
ter and coyote hunts at night, for the coy
ote is the bane of the sheep and easily
get on the wrong side of any never so
carefully built coyote proof fence.
AT the point nearest LaytonVille, the
postoffice town, We left the range and
went to see if there was any mall The
usual quota of horses stood in front of the
two or three buildings which make up the
town. All the men seemed most respect
able towards the girls although there has
been talk of restraining them from wear
ing male dress. The mountaineers have
ideas of their own and some of them are
coincident with st. Paul's. They believe
a woman's place is in her house and every
wife of them boasts a long term of years
wherein they have never left their home
Enclosure. But when one compares their
aenemic turnoutuess with Gussie and
Louise Lamn one eXclaims: "Why do not
more of the women get out among the
hills?"
AS we rode back the girls took note of
the road lying along their land and which
they must keep in order.
A plank was loose and next morning
early Louise had ridden down and driven
in some spikes before | was aStir
Gussie had been noting the prints OF
countless sheep feet in the dust of the
road They were very fresh. We came to
a place where the tracks even TO my eyes
had been out in AT least one dew. At the
same spot Gussie found her fence had
been mended and on the land beyond was
only bare brown earth.
THAT Pete Lyons pastured his sheep
on our land last night" she said TO Louise
Now Pete Lyons they knew well. He
never was above getting dollar nor above
any method of its getting. Ten miles fur
Their Jim White kept what may be called
a sleeps hotel, giving the sheep pasture
and rest, in his many paddocks, at the
rate of cents per sheep for twelve
hours.
Pete Lyons had saved the board of his
band of one or two thousand sheep More
over, he would not be too careful about
taking any sheep which might care to go
with him.
1T means a round up tonight, and IL
We are short of sheep, I'll just bring them
back" Gussie said.
Ii was near sunset and we had been In
the saddle since early morning except for
luncheon, but after a hurried dinner the
two girls with Sam, the Indian, accom-
panied by four dogs, rode off to a high
hill, where we could see the sheep feeding
upward to their beds.
Soon they came baaing down, trampling
on each other, guided by the dogs and
the voices of the drivers. 1t was late
when all the 5000 and something sheep
We're in the paddock. AS soon as ii was
| light in the morning Gussie stood at a
gate leading out of the paddock and Louise
| held the gate so the sheep could run on,
one { time. Gussie counted the swift
| tide There were about 100 shorter shan
the contingencies of life allowed. and Gus
| sic called Perro and rode down the road
| She did not return for four days and
then she came driving her flock before her
! Helen Grey