The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-05


torneys and the smell Of their clients was heavy upon
my palate.
market day, and I eyadcd With difficulty the snuoud
course of carts fun of sodten people. and steered an
equally devious one for myself among the groups ans
tHoIed tound the doors OF PUBIC houses. 9ArD1 y"
possesses, among IT'S legion of public houses, one es
Enlistment which timorOusy, and almost lnpercepu-
uiy proHers tea TO the tAlrsy TURNED III Llety 1s
was my custom court days. and found the Altle
dingy dsa known the Ladies' Coffee Room i'm the
occupancy OF my friend Florence Mccarthy NnV~
who Was drinking strong tea and eating ouns Win
serious simplicity 10 was a first and quite unexpected
glimpse of that domesucty that mas now become a
marked feature n his character.
You're the very man wanted 20 See" said, as
SAT down beside him az the uicloth-coFered laple.
a man / know Boo England who Is not much of
judge of character has asked me 20 buy him +
year-old down here, and as should rather De stuck
by friend than dealer wish you'd take over the
FURRY poured himself out another cup Of tea and
dropped three luups Of sugar into It in silence.
Finally he said There isn't 4-year-old in TINS
country that I'd be seen dead with az a pig fair
This discOuraging from the premier authority
on horse flesh in the district
But it isn't six weeks since YOU told me YOU had
the finest nlIy u your stables that was ever foaIed
IN the County Cork" 1 protested; whats wrong with
"Oh is It chat Gry?" said Mr.. Knox with "a lem
y nj smile. shes gone these three weeks from me.
j snapped her and c6 for a 3-year-old Ironmouger
colt and after that snapped the colt and El9 for
that Bandou horse ] rode last week az your place,
and after that again sold the Bandon horse for so
10 old Welpy. and j had te give him back couple
with the hlly. after au"
Eyes, yes-oh rather" 7 asscnted as one dizziiy
accepts the propositions Of bimetalist. And you
don't know o. anything else?'
Tho room i'm which we were seated was closely
screened from the shop by door with "a muslin
curtained window in &c. Several Of the panes were
broken and at this Juncture two voices that had for
some time carried ON discussion forced themselves
upon our attention.
Begging your pardon for conuadicung You,
ma am said the voice of Mrs Mcdonald. propretress
of the tea shop and a leading light i'm SkehaWu dis
senting circles shrilly uemulous with indignation;
ll 'Ae servants recommend you Won Z stop win
y2U its no fault of mine IL respectable young girls
- set picking grass out of your gravel in place OF
tHelI proper Work, certainly they VIII give warning
The voice that replied struck ne as being nota-
Wheh take a oareIooted slut out OF eabh i
don't expect her 90 dictate 10 me what her duties are
FURRY jerked up his chin In noiseless laugh
ITS my grandmother, he whispered. III bet you
AIRS. Mcdonald don't set much change out of her.
IF set her 20 clean the pigsty 1 expect her TO
obey me- continued the voice In accents that would
have made me clean forty pgsues had she desired me
Very we'll ma.am." retorted Mrs Mcdonald. "if
that's the way YOU treat your servants you needn't
come here again looking for them consider your
Don't You indeed?" replied FluTys grandmoln-
cr "Weu your opinion doesn't greatly distress me,
for TO ten you the truth don't think you're much Oh
.,Dldnt I tell you shed score2" murmured FURRY.
who by this time applying his eye 10 a hole l'
ing 90 his tea. shes "a great character shes 50 u
she's a day and she's sound on her legs as 5-y
old, Did YOU See that old syandryden OF haIs IN l5
street awhile ago ana leLoW ON lie M IN l rc
beard on him like Robinson Crusoet mat ola mar
hal
mighty clean bred. can tell you ner ioa's are
worth biz of money" ~
had heard OF ola Mrs. Knox OF Aussolas; indeed.
hearing some new story of her and her remarkable
menage. but 1t had not yet been my privilege To meet
well now" went on FURRY in his slow voice.
"Iu tell You thing that's Just come INTO my "ei,
AIy grandmother promised me ioai OF lIlnAels .l1
day / was one and twenty, and that's nve years ago.
and deuce one I've got from her YET w 49q never never
were at Aussola7' NO you Were Hol; ''tll, 81 l
YOU the place there is like circus with horses She
has couple of score of them running Wild In the
soh. come" I said; "Ia a bit of a liar myself
well she has a dozen of them, anyhow rafting
good colts too some of them. but they might as well
be- donkey for AN the good they are TO me or anyone
It's I'm three years she sells one ana IIrIe
she has them walking after her for bits Oh sugar IKE
well what's your plan2 DO you want me TO
make her bid for one OF the hpdogst
Il was thinking replied FURRY. with great de-
liberation. chat my birthdays next week, and maybe
] could work q 4-year-old colt of TrlnkeIs she has
out of her In honor of the occasion
and sell your grandmothers birthday present
Just that i suppose" answered FURRY with
S'' fsW DAYS arrerVard a letter from NIr Knox
informed me Jhat he had squared the old lady and
Ar would be- all right about the colt" lie further told
,. maj Mrs Knox had been good enough To oner
me- with him. days suipa shooting ON the celebrated
Aussolas boys. and he proposed 20 Hrlye me mere
the following Monday, t convenient. Most people
when they got the chance, Eight o'clock ON The lol-
lowing Monday morning saw FURRY, myself and
q
eases and two rampant red settlers. To was a long
drive twelve miles at least and very cold one. we
passed through long tracts of pasture country,
fraueht Tor FURRY. with memories of runs which
were recorded Tor me. fence by fence i'm every one
of which the biggest dog-foX n The country had gone
90 ground. with not Two feeJ-measured accurately
on handle of the WhIp-betWeeu him and the lead-
ing hound, through boys that impercepubly melted
nt0 lakes where the fir OF AussOlas clustered
darkly around a gItterus sake. and an but hid the
gray roofs and pointed gables of AussOaS castle.
There's "a nice stretch OF uemesne Tor YOU ZEE
marked FURRY. pointing downward with the whip,
'aud little old woman holding 10 all I'm the heel
OF her fist Well able 90 hold 10 she u.s. too. and ale
ways was. and she'll live twenty years yet If it's
only 90 spite the whole lot AS. and when als said
and done goodness knows how shaf leave it.'
eft strikes you lucky 90 keep her up 90
her promise about the colt" I said
FURRY administered a composing kick the
Ccasccss srivnEs of the red settlers under the
I used 90 Boz rather pet with her." he said. after
n pause; -but mind YOU. j haven't got him yet and
AZ she gets any notion / want TO- sell him Iu never
get him. so say nothing about The business Co her."
The tam gates of AussoIas shrieked on their
hinges as they admitted us, and shut with q C.ang
heand u.s. iu the faces of an old and a couple
of Young horses. who loied in their break for the
settlements OF the outer world turned and galoped
denantly either side of Flurrys admirable cob
hammered on. regardless of an things his duty.
"He is the only one 7 have that ia trust myself
here wlth.' said his master dicNng him approvingly
with the whip; there plenty OF people afraid t0
come here at all and when my srandmothrr soes out
driving she has a boy the box with basket fuI
o. stones 90 peg az them Talk OF the dickens here