The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-28

remember just his identical words. but
it was something like that. Anyhow
if you remember Kitson you know what
kind of a half-baked hoDtoad he vas
He had about as much live git-up-an'-
git-ness as a tub o lard. He didn't
know the pit of his stomach from the
back of his neck. He'd come on parade
with his right shoe on his left foot, and
then cross his legs to get 'em straight
when the sergeant pointed 'em out. He
was the limit. certain"
We'll. what about him?" demanded
EIeazar.
well. you plug up your gas pipe and
i'll tell you. 1t was while you was in
hospital after that little fellow down
Sonar way got to you with a bolo
EitsOn had got so he knew enough to
hPrd his legs when he wanted to sit
down. but he showed about as much
average. everyday horse sense as a
cast-iTOn stove lid.
''Moren' all that. he'd made up his
mind that he hadn't ought to be a sol
dior; that he was too scary. I remem-
Der once we was sttin' together one
evening by the fire. and there came
kind of funny double-barreled cry like
off i'm the Jungle Always. Kitson jerked
tp like he was stung.
Hear that. Jarvey?' he says. Hear
that? That amt no wild beast he
y
lriggers'-thats what he always called
'en'. little devil niggers.'
g I'm skairt of 'em. Jarvey.' he SAYS
= low they're goin' to git me one o.
these days.
II didn't know as much then as I do
now. and / kind o. laughed at him.
What you goin' to do when they cit
you Kitson? / says.
Who. me?' he says. I reckon I'll
bout lay down an die. Jarvey But I'll
run like HI before I'll let 'em get me-
well. il wasn't a great while after
that fore we come up with that little
bunch o PujaIanes and give 'em a good
hot dose o. the real goods. You remem-
Der il. for that's where you got that
swine i'm the ribs"
You bet your future mOther-in-law.
] remember it, said the corporal. ''how
we got EN- cooped up i'm that blind al
ley. an they come at us like wildcats
tooth an toe nail. I never let on, Jar
vey. but / tell you now l was as near
bein' skairt paralyzed that time as I've
ever been. Them little scoundrels looked
TO me like the DEVILS own breed
well, we dished 'em up proper"
went on Jarvey. There wasn't more'n
n dozen of 'em got away, and most o.
them had the II. S. brand on fem. one
place or another. Chislett was crazy.
though because we let any of 'em git
through US Kitson missed that scrap,
bein' off with detachment bringin' up
supplies.
"They used to detail him for that be-
cause the only time he'd work like
horse was when it come to bringin' in
vjctuaIs. Remember how he used to
eat? Never got enough. Always hun
CRY. Ate like four men and boy, and
within an hour was cinchin' UP his belt
and cIairnin' he was weak with starva-
ton
well ChisIett was madder'n a
scaIped Injun to think we hadn't
rounded up that whole bunch, and he
was only Waitin' till the detachment
Joined to start off red hot after that
dozen or SO that sliced their way
through us IT was a case o cleanin'
I'm the province if we get that outfit.
and c,hislett promised us all kinds o.
rneanness if we let 'em run over US
again.
ce,,eral of the boys had got cut UP
and we'd finished off the bulk o the
gang: but Kola, the chief. and that cut
throat dozen had give us the slip and
C,hislett was a long way from satisfied.
7, was I'D to us. and he let us under
stand he'd keep us on the jump over
chose godforsaken hills till we got en-
.sThat was gorgeous country, GER
Tain II was built on perpendicular
hias You crawled on your belly upscne
side OF the landscape and wore out the
seat of your trousers slidin' down the
other About the time we got to the
riace we aimed at the. guides changed
their minds and we back-tracked' cuss-
-, ~ the place we started from.
..The guides was the worst In crea-
ton. A deaf and dumb man with sore
e,,ag col,ld "a beaten 'em TO a froth.
"vveIl. Ii come along one night IN the