The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-03
Jud Stood over Me in a MenacIns Attitude.
BY o. HENRY.

Judson, on account of the way shoot
/ When l want Il stranger to know me !
always Introduce myself b. fore the
/ draw, for ! never did like to shake
hands with ghosts
An says he, just like that-'Ah, I
! am glad to know you, Mr.. Judson. Pm
jackson Bird, from over at Afired Mule
/ ranch.
/ Just then one of my eyes saw q
road runner skipping down the hill
! with a young tarantula in his bill and
| the other eye noticed IA rabbit hawk
sitting on dead limb in water elm.
! popped over one after the other with
my forty-iive, just TO show him. Two
I out Of three, says l. Birds Just nat
| uraiiy seem to draw my fire wherever
| / go
Nice shooting, says the sheep man
/ without a tiutter; but don't you some
! times ever miss the third shot? EIe-
| giant fine rain that was last week for
/ the young grass. don't YOU think, Air.
( Judson? says he.
/ Willie says /, riding over close to
/ his palfrey, your infatuated parents
may have denounced you by the name
/ of jackson, but you sure NOTED into
tWittering Willie. Let rs slough off
J this here analysis OF rain and the ele-
ments, and get down TO talk thar is
outside the vocabulary OF parrots. That
| IS bad habit you have got of riding
with young ladies over at Pimienta.
I've known birds says to be served
on toast for less than that Miss Will
ella, says l, don't ever want any nest
made out OF Sleeps wool by a tomtit
of the JaCksOnian branch of ornithol-
ogy. Now, are YOU going to quit, or do
You wish for 10 galiep up against this
Dead-Moral-Certainty attachment TO
my name, which is good for two hy-
phens and at least one set of funeral
obsequies?
jackson Bird flushed up some, and
then he laughed.
Why. Mr.. Judson,' says he, you've
got the wrong idea. I've called on Miss
Learight few times. but not for the
purpose You imagine. My object is
purely a gaSrOnomiCal one
Il reached for my gun.
Wait a minute says this Bird,
till l explain. What would / DO with
q wife? If YOU ever saw that ranch
OF mine! l do my own cooking and
mending. Eating-thars all the pleas
ure 1 get out of sheep raising. Mr.
Judson, did you ever taste the pam
cakes that Miss Learight makes?'
Me? No told him
They're golden sunshine SAYS he:
honey Drowned by the ambrosial fires
of Epicurus. I'd give two years of my
life 10 get the recipe for making them
pancakes. That's what I went To see
Miss Learight for says jackson Bird,
but l haven't been able TO get il from
her. It's an old recipe that's been in
the family for sayenty-five years. They
.
another, but they don't give Il awav
10 outsiders. II / could get that recipe.
SO ] could make them pancakes for
myself on my ranch, I'd be d happy
man. says Bird.
Are Won sure I says TO him, that
il amt the hand that mixes the pan
cakes that you're after?'
Sure, says Jackson. Miss Lea
right IS Il mighty nice girl, but | can
assure You my intentions go no further
than the CASTRO But he seen my
hand going down TO my holster. and
he changed his similitude-'than the
desire 20 procure a copy of the pancake
recipe, he finishes.
You amt such a bad little man
says J. trying to be fair. I was think
ing some OF making orphans Of your
sheep. but III let you fly away this /
time. But you stick 10 the pancakes /
says /, as close as the middle one of a I
stack, and don't you so and mis- AXE /
sentiments for syrup, or therel be 4
singing at your ranch, and YOU won't /
hear it
TO convince YOU that I am sincere /
says the sheep man, I'll ask you to I
help me. If you viii get me a copy of /
nat pancake recipe I give YOU my
word that III never call upon her
again.
That's fair, I says, and l shook
hands with Jackson Bird. IN get il
or you If / can, and glad to oblige.'
And he turned off down the big pear
lat on the Piedra.
1T was FIVE days afterward when l
got another chance to ride over 10 Pr
nienta. Miss Willella and me passed !
/ gratifying evening at Uncle Ems
eys We was getting along in one |
mothers estimation fine. Thinks /, IL
Jackson Bird can now be persuaded |
o migrate. l win. ! recollect his prom
Sc about the pancake recipe. and |
links / Will persuade it from Miss
tilleiia and give II 10 him; and then,
f l catches Birdie off of Mired Mule
-gain I'll make him hop the twig.
50. along about 10 O'Clock I put on a
needing smile and says to Miss Will
ia; Nov, If there's anything | do
Ike better than the sight of a red
teer on green grass it's the taste of
ice hot pancake smothered in sugar.
louise molasses.'
Miss Willelia gave a little jump on
he piano stool and looked at me Gu
ious
" Yes says she, they're real nice.
! nat did sou say was the name of
hat street in ST. Louis, Mr.. Odorn,
mere you lost your hat?'
pancake avenue says I, with |
INK, TO show her that ! was on about |
he Family recipe and couldn't be side
orfalled of of the subject. Come,
ow' Miss Willella.' / says. let's hear
oW You make en-. Pancakes is Just
hlflinS IN my head like wagon wheels. |
TART her OFF, now-pound of -four. |
lSht dozen eggs. and so on. How does ,
Ae catalogue Of constituents run?' ,
Excuse me for a moment, please, ,
iys MISS Willella, and sho gives me a
1lck KIND Of Sideways look and slides
II tho stool She ambled out into the
ther room, and directly Uncle Imsley :
omes IN in his shirt sleeves with a | :
ilcher OF water. He turns around 10 Z
ct glass on the table, and | see a ;
lrty-fve in his hip pocket Great | ,
'st holes thinks /, but here's a FAM !
s thinks a heap Of cooking recipes. / <
-oteetns it with firearms. I've known I