The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-27
Chicago News.)

4 EONTDAS 7. FRYE, attorney and
couuselor-at-law, was sitting careful
Iy tilted back in his crazy office
chair with his unblacIIed boots on the
torn baize of his desk, while OLD man
Jacobs from Green Alder township was
struggling through the chattel mortgage
procedure in the Justices code with
painful forefinger and frequent appeals
to the attorney for instruction.
Now, this here redemption clause.
said Justice Jacobs. IF YOU had a client
an he was brought afore me-
Better take a probable case" sug-
gested the attorney. between pulss Of his
pipe. 81 don't have clients. say. If a
man praeeticing raw IN live community
had q client 0Iy imagination won't
stretch beyond a certain point"
The office door was pushed open at
this moment and "a man entered and
sszed hesitatingiy at the two occupants
Which of you two is Lawyer Fryer"
he asked.
Il ann replied the attorney. without
removing his feet from the table.
Il want ter talk over a little law bust
ness with you said the man.
What is it--dOmestic complication
ITS "A damidge SCOTT said the man.
( II want you 60 500 Isrul Henderson for
damidge caused by him. the aforesaid
isrul on me. Paxton Richie. his hired
Did ne do It with a nallet2 That s
DoNOiOgy Henderson, isn't it2"
Yes He done it principally with his
"Weu. go ahead" said the attorney.
u come TO work for him early this
spring said the man. III you'll let me
have a little o. that good smOkn' Of
yours i kin talk better. An Well. ]
disremember the adzacz date. but I know
&c was of a Toosd'y. He agreed he'd pay
me twenty-five a month an board. an I'll
Il rau d. d
wus good. I hadn't no chance ter loaf
none around there, but ne done his
share an there wasn't no work after
sundOwn. What L didn't like about him
calf DlOWed milk up my sleeve or sutnin
Ike that, an i sorter expressed myself
he was down on me like a thousand O.
brick. He said IT was sinful-yes, SIR,
sinful. An he wouldn't have a whip
around the farm. When the corn was
up he give me an Of mule that was the
COntrariest cussedest critter I ever
struck One day he seen me hit II a lick
with the end o. the lines an he stopped
siugin' the hymn he'd started on an he
talked to me a solid half hour on the
sinfulness O. mishandliu' dumb animals.
Il was mad. but I reckOned it was his
way. After that IN 7 wanted TO learn
that mule to act like he ought I'd listen
ter hear III anybody was singin' hymns
anywhere near. I could always hear him
coming. When L did I'd conclude Il was
time Ter me ter wake up an sit ter
ketched me mOren onct or twict Then
he'd preach me q sermon on slOth. But
7 reckoned it was his way an L
stayed on
'Was he paying YOU your wages all
the time?'' asked the attorney.
yes. III say that fer him. He was
good. regular pay But he was narrer IN
his views about tcrbacSer. He said 1T
was a filthy habit an didn't DO nobody
no good. But he said he'd let me smoke
i'm the kitchen in I wouldn't smoke up
stairs when / went ter bed. because he
didn't like ter make his brother man
mis- rable. Then he an his ole woman
nd set an cough am choke al the
evenin'. so | couldn't take no comfort In
my pipe. recSoned IL was their way
o. dom, so t tried ter put up with it,
Cruel ana inhuman treatment COM
meuted the lawyer
You smoke yourself. judge. an you
know how IL is'' said the man. An he
wouldn't let me smoke around the stacks
said when the wind was BLOWN they
was libie 20 ketch fire. I'd worked
around stacks all my life with a pipe In
my mouth an I'd never set fire TO none
OF 'em. But I sort o. humored him. Onct
when I come In with load o. hay ] for
got he was around an kept on smOlin'.
Then he walked up ter me an he says.
im grieved an panied. Paxton. IF Won
smoke around these here stacks ag in III
be more grieved an psined-an' you'll be
panied some, too, Paxton Give me that
pipe
II gave 81 to him an he dropped it
into a bucket O. water. Some men would
a mt him. but 4 allowed II was his ig
nerance an prcjOrdice, an let 81 pass
well yesterday mornin' he told me he
was gOin' ter town an fer me ter bring
in the last o. the hny an stack It. When
I'd got Il stacked I stretched out on the
shady side OF a stack an closed my eyes.
10 was a warm day. but gfter awhile II
felt if gittin a whole lot warmer. an
was wonde-in if tho shade hadn't moved
around an IF Il hadn't better git up,
when 7 heard Isrul singin.