The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-05

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BXE road, lies the Old Mill a
decrepit old monster of
EkkEKH1E blue and grayish native
k@0Hs&k stone.
II you go down into
p'aek mole which faces on the road.
IN the basement of the mill. Won win
reach first a narrow passagexav. tbnp
10 the right of this. you will cor71e ~
the JOINT boiler and engine room
Wnere you Will discover Pat Foley. ne
VIII appear sitting cross legged on his
e.ioe po1 Dy the engine-a little, grimy
SIIedked man, with dirty old stub of
a clay pipe fixed, bowl downward i'm
MS teeth Beside him you will find
Tom Donelan. the fireman.
II ne Is propitious, Pat will give Won
the greasy armchair intended for his
own consumption. but never used b,,
MN. You must then ask him for the
story OF his succession to the throne.
IL Is worth hearing He told it to me
some time last spring Tom DoneIan
put me on the track when PAT bad
stepped out of the room.
ASK the old man about him and
Hoonter." he said.
Who's Hunter" / asked.
oh. he's the man before Pat"
Then Pat came back again.
We'll Pat" I asked, how is she to-
daFIt She according to the Ian
guage Of her operator. is the antique
engine
Just look at her now" said PAT
the decateful old creature; calm and
EWate and PEACEFUL as an unmatched
egg who'd behave what & low, dirty,
fafnshus, contrary old haste she is
ana me after haVin' spint me whole
plissed mornin' drivin' her to her duty"
he settled down on his shoe box and
shook his dirty fist at her
They tell me you've had some lively
times times with her" l continued, angling.
Correct. 1 have" said Pat, putting
away 10 light his pipe again. Cursed
be the moind that consaved her and
the hand that laid her down. She niver
yet was set to rights. Twas some lit
tie dry goods clerk that made her. and
no true machinist"
Were you ever afraid of her?" 1
asked.
mo. / was not" said Pat
''ThOt tonne with HOonter We was -
interrupted Tom.
viii, thin. vance 1 was. and vance
only"
And so we had him hooked.
Ye niver see Jim HOOnter, did We
sor? No? Thin you missed the seem
OF most peculiar man. a most I'M
usual man he was; was he not, Tom ~
He was said Tom. with great
solemnity.
eliphunt he was. Not sOft-Ioike, but
bristlin all over his anatomy with
bones. He had a chist on him loike
thin boilers Six feet three he stud,
and his big white beard trailin' down
to his waist-a foine old figger of a
mon, for all the world loike the pic
lures OF Moses and the blissed patri-
aTchs- A Ioikely lad he must have
been thot any woman might be proud
of. but niVer a woman had he looked
at. They fright me. Pat says he. \
quare-spakin' mon he was. Me only
swateheart is this old machine, says
he. pointin' to the Old Girl. which was
right: he was the greatest frind she
liver had-the ungratefuI old haste.
a good Teller was old Jim HOonteT,
and a good fTind. Thirteen year him
and me lived together in affecshun
that would put mOny bridal couple
on their honeymoon to shame. Thin
come the rayptile into Paradise in the
form OF a woman. Five years ago she
come and whin l learned il first ]
was near paralyzed. Siveral tonnes ]
found Jim HOOnter gone to town at
nOight, and after tonne L asks him
where he'd been.
- It's called into town I've been,
says he, for social DISCOURSE
- It's a woman says l.
"A woman says he 'nather more
nor Iiss; but there are other as Will
oh you old rascal says L a
noice time this is to break down the
raysolushuns OF a loifetoime.'
Thin. little after. she come in
from town to visit him 4 dirty, mis-
formed, unwomanly thing she was
loike "a big slouchy rag doll, with a
sour, yellow face.
Oh says she, turning her eyes
up whin she looks at the Old Girl here
how wonderful are the works OF the
Lord
What is thOt to do with st. says
to meself. Madam says 1 aloud
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