The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1906-01-03

erous cattle outfit druv his sheep over
the cliff. Relations twlxt sheep and
cattle men In this yere country Is
strained beyant the goin' back place,
can tell you. My pistol eye amt had
wink of sleep for nigh Oh eighteen
months, an Is broke to wakefulness
same as teethin' babe.
Jim was wild as a coyote fore h.
marries that girl. She come all the
way from Topeka, Kan, thlnkin' she
was goln' to find respectable home,
an when she come out hyear an
found the place was Il dance hall she
cried all the time. She didn't add none
to the hilarity OF the place An one
day Jim he strolled in an, SEEM the
girl a-cryin' like a freshet an wishin'
she was dead, he inquired the cause.
She told him how that old harry wrote
her, an, bein' an orphant. she come
ont thinkin' she was goin' to respect.
able place as waitress, an Jim he
lowed IL was n case for the law He
was little shy of twenty at the time.
Just young cockerel bout brilin' size.
Some of the old hangers on bout the
place they see II heap of fun in inns
takin on bout the girl. he bein' that
young that he had scarce growed Il
pair of spurs yet. An one of 'em says
to him, Sonny, II you're Altered that
this we're corral Is onjurious to the
young lady's morals, we'll call in the
gospel sharp II you'll stand for the
brand Now Jim hadn't cent nor no
calm nor prospect to his back. but
he struts up to the man that was dom
the talkin game as Il bantam, an he
says, The lady amt rakln' In anything
but lettle white chip in takin' me,
but II she's willin' here's my hand
AT which that pore young thing
cried harder than ever Well Jim he
up an marries the girl an It turns out
fine. He gets job herdin sheep on
shares, an she stays with the Rodney
outfit till he saves enough to build a
cabin. Things is goin' with Jim like a
prairie afire. In u few years he ac-
quireS herd OF his own, a fine herd,
not scabby sheep In the bunch. Aida
she makes him the best kind of "A wife,
thcra kids Is the pride Of his life. an
then them cattlemen do for him. or
course he takes to riE.tlin'. I'd do
more'n rustic II they'd touch mine"
The pair of bronchos that Mrs. Vel
lett was driving bumped their backs
like cats as they climbed the steep
mountain road. With her driving was
"A gANn d.
see her handle the ribbons Mary
asked some trifiing question about the
children, and II ELECTED the informa-
ton that enc of the girls was named
Cacta. Yes" she said, Il like new
names for children, not old ones that
fered an died to. 1t seems to start
EN- fair, like playin' cards with new
deck. Cacta's my oldest daughter, an
| named her after the flowers that
blooms all over the desert spite OF
everything-heat, cold an rain an al
kali dust-the cactus blooms right
through 1t all. Even its own thorns
don't seem to fret 1t none. l called
her plain Cactus till she was three,
an along came sharp studyin' the
flowers an weeds out here, an he
lowed that Cactus was a boys name
an Cacta was for glrls-called 1t a
feemlnin tarnatlon or somethin' like
that-so we changed 1t. My second
daughter amt got quite so much OF n
name. She's called Clematls. That
holds its own out here pretty well,
long by the willows on the creek.
Paw lowed he was terrible afraid that
I'd name the youngest girl Sagebrush.
so he spoke to call her Leslie Viola,
an Civ In. The boys is all plain
named-Ben, Jack an Ned. Paw
wouldn't hear of II fancy brand behl'
run ON to EN-"
The temperature fell perceptibly as
they climbed the heights, and the air
had the heady quality Of wine. II
was awesome, this entering into the
great compmv+of the mountains. Pres
entity Mary caught the slImmsr Of
something white against the dark back.
ground Of the hills. II eisanaed nke n