The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-19

the woman carried in her pistol pocket.
Gee, but it was worth all the trouble
to get up the mountain to see the sight
that opened up. The hole in the noun
tain filled with boiling stuff was worth
the price of admission, and the roaring
OF the boiling stuff, and the eXplO-
Sions way down cellar, and the flying
stones, the smoke going into the air
for a mile, like the burning of an oil
well, the red-hot lava finding crevices
10 leak through, and flowing down the
side of the mountain in streams like
not mare syrup, made scene that
caused us TO take off our hats and
thank the good Lord that the thing
hadn't overlooked enough to hurt US
But l could see dad was scared, cause
when l wanted him to 90 around the
edge of the crater with me and see the
hell-roaring free show from other
points of view, and see where the hot
ashes years ago rolled down and COW
cred Pompeii and Herculaneum, he
baked and said he had seen all he
wanted to, and if he could stay alive
until the next car went down the noun
tain they could all have his interest
in Vesuvius. and be darned to them:
but he said if / wanted TO go around
looking for trouble he would stay there
under big rock with the Chicago lady
and wait for me to come back She
said she knew dad was all tired out
and needed rest. and she would STAY
with him and keep him cheered up SO
l left them and went off with one of
the dagOes. to slide down hill on some
flowing lava and pick up specimens
Well, sir, i wish 1 could get along
some way without telling the rest of
this sad story, but if l am going to be
a historian L have got to tell the whole
blame thing
When 1 left dad and the Chicago wo-
man she had produced a lunch from
somewhere about her person. and a
small bottle. and they were eating and
drinking, and dad was laughing more
natural than 1 had seen him laugh
since we run over the old woman with
the automobile at Nice. and she was
smiling on dad just as though she was
his sweetheart. As 1 went around the
crater a couple of blocks away I
looked back and dad had laid his head
i'm her lap, and she was stroking his
hair.
Well, 1 picked up specimens, burned
the soles off my shoes wading in the
lava, and took in the volcano from all
sides, and after an hour 1 went back
TO where dad and the woman were
lunching. but the woman was gone
and dad acted as though he had been
hit by an express train His eyes We're
wild. his collar was gone, his pocket
book was on the ground empty: his
coat was gone. his scarf pin had dis
appeared and the $11 watch he bought
When he was robbed the other time was
missing, and dads tongue was run out
and he was yelling for water 7
thought he had been trying to drink
some lava
Dad, what in the world has hap
pened to you?" said I. as 1 rushed up
to him
That woman has happened to me.
that is all" said dad. as he took a
swallow of water out of canteen one
of the dagoes had.
Tell me about it. dad" said I try
ing to keep from laughing. when 1 saw
that he was not hurt.
Say. let this be a lesson to you"
said dad, and don't you steer another
woman to me on this trip. Do YOU
Enow you hadn't more than got around
that big rock when she said she was
tired and was going to faint, for the
altitude was too high for her, and
tried to soothe her. and she did look
ale, and, by gosh, 1 thought she was