The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-27

the full name as 1t is written here when
first inquired about him..
This was too much for the general
Bounding from his seat and shaking his
niger in the senator's face, he said;
vest, or all the devils that stalk
upon the face OF the earth. you are the
biggest and most heartless. I'll not eat
with you, sir
Just at this moment the waiter re-
turned with two delicious mint jeueps-
For the first time in his lie the gen
eral turned the jufeps down and walked
disdainfully away Senator Vest never
did tell what became of General Clark's
jalep-
The last few years before the civil
war Senator Vest lived at BoonTille.
Across the Missouri river, about four
teen miles away from Boonville. is the
Classic little city of Fayette, the home
OF General John 3. Clark. At the time
OF which / speak. Vest was not Senator
Vest, nor was Clark General Clark; but
both wsre young lawyers Just begin
ming their careers. Living so close to-
Eether. both being lawyers, both be-
ing hearty good fellows of congenial
tastes in more ways than one, it was
but natural that a warm and lasting
friendship should spring up between
thsm. Many are the times, so the cid
citizens say, that Vest and Clark sat
around the festal board of an evening
with a few chosen friends. drinking
sour wine, eating cheese-these great
men vera poor then-and telling stories
till the small hours of the morning
'.extemporaneous syulposiums" as
Gensral Clark was wont TO call them
The following is story General
Clark used to love to tell as TO what
took place at one of these ''sympos-
iGms:"
I'VE were having a good time, as we
/ always had. Vest, few intimate. mu-
tual friends and myself the general
was always wont to say upon the be-
ginning OF this story, "all seated around
an old table in a back room of Vests
office in Boonville one evening of
course we were telling stories. for that
was always a part of our programme,
and for some reason. l cannot now ex-
plain. we got TO discussing the merits
Of pointer dogs. Vest would tell a story
about the prowess of some dog he knew
and then we would all take a drink;
then I would tell a story about some
Cog / knew and we would all take an
other drink.
Now, everyone who knows Vest and
/. know that neither of us cared much
tor dogs or sylvan sports of any kind
doubt if either of us ever owned
pointer dog in our lives. But in some
mysterious way, 1 suppose that it was
ON account of good Fellowship of the
occasion, the rivalry at storytelling
between us and the exhilarating effects
OF the freely flowing wine, the dogs
We were talking about soon became our
dogs-living, moving creatures of sup
ernatural powers.
Vest would tell one about his dog
and we would take a drink; L would
/ tell one about my dog and we would
! take another drink. So we kept on
swapping yarns about our dogs and
| taking drinks till our rivalry developed
| ii N ha arrso f oh
of us to relate the most unreasonable
| stories possible.
/ west had just finished a very ex-
| travagant one, when 1 happened to
think of one that / was sure would put
him out of business.
I'll tell you. Vest I said, leaning
| back in my chair and hooking my
thumbs UP in the armhOles of my vest.
/ it is all in the breeding, and breeding
will show every time. Now, anyone
can tell that this dog of mine is a we'll
/ bred dog by watching him work i'm the
| field just five minutes. oh, I tell you
he has the finest nose 1 ever saw on
| a dog. And il makes no difference
! where he is when he scents a bird, and
| # there is a bird about he is certain
to scent him; right there he will drop
| and right there he will stay till dOomS-
cay unless L go in and reut the bird.
"'Just to show you what he viii do
| along these lines, 1 will relate a little
! incident that took place the other day
| while we were hunting. We found a
! covey of birds right close to a low
! hedgerow. 1 had killed a few of them,
and my dog was working fine. making
no mistakes at all-he never does.
Presently 1 noticed him take a run
| ming start towards that hedgerow-
and L never saw a dog in my life that
can run as fast as he-he made 4
| onderful leap as he neared the fence
rising in the clear some eight or ten
feet above the fence. Just as he was
| Immediately over the fence. ne scented
| a bird down in the ahedgerow. Instant
ly his tail Strengthened out, his nose
| was pointed to one side, and right
! there, up in midair, he hung till
scared that bird up and shot it. And
1 tell you, Vest. that dog would have
been there till now if had not routed
the bird he was pointing in the hedge.
! well, of course, the boys all gave
Vest the laugh, and 1 was certain
had him vanquished. But, there was
no use talking, Vest has the most Won
derful resources in close places like this
of any man / ever knew.
I'VE had hardly set the glasses down