The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-21

/ For all who extended sympathy to the
/ pretender the insurgents developed
( a wholesome scOrn.
/ This seorn fell most heavily upon
Mrs. Jones. The Sears children re-
! garded her familiar popularity with
undisguised reDugnance; and when
Jimmy heard Mrs Jones tell his little
/ sister Annie, that morning, that she
was no longer the baby, Jimmy's rage
at what he considered a fiendiSh
/ thrust at the innocent and forsaken
/ child passed the bounds of endurance.
/ He hurled a bit of that anger in the
/ clod that hit Mealy Jones. Then Jim
my walked dOggedly back to the
! house. He coaxed the little sister
/ from the kitchen, took the child's
! chubby hand, and led her to the barn.
/ There Jimmy nursed his sorrow.
/ He assured the yOunker as they sat
/ on the hay that he for one would not
/ desert her, even If mamma had for
! gotten her" He Rugged the wonder
/ ing tot until her ribs hurt, and in his
/ lamentations referred to the new baby
! as that old thing" The evening be
/ fore, when Mrs. Jones had marshaled
/ the other Sears children and taken
/ them into the bedroom to see their
new sister, Jimmy was not to be
found. None Of the elder children had
| looked at the baby. They had turned
their heads away deliberately, and
| had responded in cultural alternatives
/ when they were asked if it was not
pretty baby. But Jimmy had escaped
that humiliation. and since then he
had avoided all snares set to lure him
Il into his mothers room. He sat in the
barn, tuning as he recalled what he
had heard while Annie was in his
4 mothers room early that morning.
/ There he heard this mOnolOgue in Mrs.
Jones' voice;
"See little sisters hands. Oh. what
1 pretty handSi'
:, Jimmy had reasoned, and probably
correctly. that the pause was filed by
the child's big-eyed establishment.
Mrs. Jones continued:
"Weenty, teenty, little feets! See
little sisters tOeses- What little bit
sey tOeses. Baby touch little sisters
tOeses."
Jimmy had chafed while he listened,
but now that the scene came to him
after reflection, he saw how inhuman
thing it was to dupe the child into
an affection for her inevitable enemy.
Does baby love little sister," con-
tinued the voice. Love nice, pretty
, little sister, Sweet little sister.
Zherel There! THAT'S right; love lit
tie sister"
As he toyed with a whisp Of hay,
Jimmy Sears blood froze in his veins
at the recollection that his own mother
, had lent her cOuntenance to this base
, ness. He knew. and he knew that his
mother knew, that the baby would
take all the care due to his tOddlins
. sister. He saw, from the elevation OF
!, the hay-cOck on which he and the
; little one sat, that her throat had been
E cut in a cowaTdly manner while she
> smiled. It seemed deliberately cruel
I . I,srs I,
, child. Still, in his heart. he fOrgave
his mother for her part in the du-
p plicity. He did not feel for her the
, contempt he felt for Henry Sears, heI
+ father: for the boy knew that Henry
, Sears was actually proud of the fam
+ ily's ignOmy. Jimmy blushed at the
? picture in his mind of his father strut
! ting around town, with his vest peck
: cts full of cigars and his thumbs ir
8 the armpits, Dragging Of the occur
{ renee that filed the boy with shame
Jimmy felt that secretly his mother
9 did not consider the baby'S arrival ar
a occasion for vainglory. He felt thai
o his mother was merely putting a gOOC
q face uDon the misfortune. These re
= Elections kept Jimmy quiet for ter
T minutes.
, At the end thereof a calamitous fate
. took him up and made him its toy
\ Tragedy is the everlasting Diling VI
a of little things. So Jimmy Sears could
. / not know that an evil destiny haC
Y come to guide his step when he start
ed downward for it came so gently
p To meet Piggy" Pennington anC
n Bud" Perkins and ABE" Carpentel
n coming out of the Pennington yarC
o was not such a dreadful thing, Jimmy
( had met them a score Of times befOTt
O at that particular gate, with no seri
a Gus consequences. It was not in tn,
o least OminOus that the four boys
: started for the creek of the Willows
for Jimmy had gone to the creek time
O without number in that very com
4 pany, 1t did not augur evil for Jimmy
n Sears that the lot fell to him to 81
n forth and forage chicken for tn
4 great corn feast of the Black Feet
i savage tribe Of four warriors among
r whom Jimmy was known as the Bale
f Eagle" Perhaps there were signs anC
n warnings in all these things; and then
c on the other hand, perhaps Jimmy
r Sears was so intent upon escaping
= from the shadows that lowered Owe
! his family that he did not read thu
a Omens, and so rushed into his misfOr
: tunes blindly. These, however, ar,
4 idle sDeculations; they are the mate
, rails from which sages spin their dr.
/ and ethereal webs. But this nara
4 tive is concerned only with the fact
t in the case. Therefore, it is necessary
a to know only that when Jimmy Sears
|. stopped TO pick up his tail-pointed ar
q row, lying beside q stunned pullet, h
n heard the sharp nasal "sping" of ;
a rock whirring near his head. CHECKER
# and bow and arrow in hand, he began
It TO run, not looking back.
s Here, here, Jimmy Sears, hold OF
9 therep' cried a voice. Jimmy knew
It the voice It and the chicken belonged
r to the same person. So Jimmy quick
n ened his speed. He heard the clatter
s ing thump Of prusuing feet. 1t wa
e 200 yards to the end of the cobstrewI
u lot. The boy fixed his course towar'
% the lowest length of fence. Then h
= kept his eyes upon the ground. H
d clincEed his teeth, and skinned Owe
n the earth. The feathers in his hat
q stuck there to satisfy the verities o
e his assumed Indian chaTacteT-caugh
# the breeze; so, rather than lose hi
v hat. he grabbed it in the hand tina
2 held the chicken. He cleared tn