The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-01-17

TWO uennitiOnS OF me II l. brand that
morning at the roundup.
Delighted" said Peter, affecting moi
to notice the Significance Of the mans
remark. Did you ever hear OF the
time that Tony Neville was burned
with SNOWY
The xxx man yawned long and au.
dibly. No one seemed especially inter
ested in Tony Neville's having been
burned with snow. but Peter struck out
manfully just in time to head Off man
who said that he had seen Jim Rodney
or some one who looked like him fol
lowing the trail herd.
Once on a time when 1t paid to be a
cattleman," began Peter, there was
an outfit near Laramie that hailed from
the United Kingdom. every mothers
son OF them-a fine. manly lot of fell
lows. but welded to calamity along Of
their cooks. These unhappy Britons
had every species of I'll luck that could
befall an outfit in the way OF cooks.
They were of every nationality, age
and sex, and they stole, drank, quar-.
relied. till the outfit determined TO
sweep the house clear of them and do
Its own cooking. Every man was to
have turn at II for week. There
were as many different kinds of indi-
gestlon as there were men In the out.
fit. They would beg to do night herd
ing-anything to get them away from
that ranch. Finally when their little
tummies got so bad that their over
coats thickened or wore through or
whatever happens to stomachs' over
coats that are treated unkindly, some
ones maiden aunt sent him tract
saying that rice was the saliva ton Of
the human race, as witness the Chi
nese. Whosoeyer's turn Il was to cook
that week determined to try the old
lady's prescription. Rice was procured.
about IA peck, ! think. and the man
who was cooking. pro tenn, put the en-
tire quantity on to boil In huge ham
boiler over slow fire, as per the di. |
rectons OF the maiden aunt. The rice |
seemed to he doing nicely when some |
one came In and said that a bunch of |
antelope was over on the hills and |
there was good chance to get a cou- |
pie. Every man got his gun. all but |
the cook. and he looked at the rice that |
hadn't done thing over the slow fire. |
q" way that would melt your heart. |
Just my luck that II should be my
week to pot wrestle when there's good
hunting right at ones front door.
oh, come on some one said. |
Didn't kelletts aunt say the rice |
ought 10 be cooked over slow fire? |
kellett, get your aunt's letter and read |
the directions for cooking that rice
again
The cook didn't need second in
vltation, and they got into their sad
dies cook and all. and went for the
antelope.
Now, antelope are not like station
AIRY washtubs: they move about. And
when that particular outfit arrived at
the spot where those antelope We're
last seen they had moved, but the boys
found traces of them and continued on
their trail. They went In the foothills
and they searched for those antelope
all day. They caught up with old man
Halls outfit at dinner time and were
Invited TO take a bite. Coming home
by way of the Circle Star ranch,
Colonel Semmes asked them In to have
n mint julep-the colonel was n South
Carollnian and he had Just succeeded
IN raising some mint. They had Sow
Grail fear more than several--drinks
before leaving for home, with never
trace of antelope nor thought of the
rice cooking over the slow fire. The
colonel remembered some hard cider
that he had, and topping Off on that
they set out. The weather was pretty
warm and on their way home they ex-
perlenced some remorse over the hard
cider. Now hard cider Is an accumu-
latiye drink; II piles up interest like
debt or unpaid taxes. And by the
time those Englishmen had turned the
little lane leading into their home cor
raj they saw sight that made their
sombreros rise. As l have said be-
fore, IL was hot, being somewhere in
the month OF August. Gentlemen,
hardly expect you to believe me when
say II was showing on their house,
and not on another blessed thing in
the landscape.
"The blamed thing about II was that
10y man WYNN tht 10 ne |
his own private view of snakes. or
their blbulous equivalent manifested
In another and more terrifying form.
but when they got bit closer the
horror Increased. Flying right out of
their windows were perfect drifts OF
snow, banks of II, gentlemen and the
thermometer up past hundred. One
OF the men looked about him and no.
ticed the pallor on the faces Of the
rest.
DO you notice anything strange. old
chap? These cursed American drinksr
Strange" The hoy he had spoken
TO was about eighteen, nice, red
checked English lad. out with his uncle
learning the cattle business. I've al.
ways tried to lead good life, and here
am a paretic before I've come Of
age
They halted their horses and held
consultation. The boss came 10 the
conclusion that since they had all