Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-10-31

like me TO shut up his mouth. He'd
ought to stay in little mans place
and talk sassy to people his own size,
When he comes shooting off his bazoo
to a man that could swaller him whole
without loosening his collar it's I'm.
pidence; that's what it is
"'Well, as favor to meY says.
"'Well, If you put it In that way-l
don't want TO be small about it.
$50 Arizona goes up to Jones and
sticks out his hand. There's my hand
Jones' he says. I'm mighty sorry you
fold me to shut up ms mouth says he
SO am l. says Jones heartily, not
taking in the sense of the words. but
feeling that ii was all in good inten.
ton. So that was all right. and |
stood in with the management in great
shape for fixing up the fuss so pleas
ant. But it didn't last. They say moth
ing lasts in this world. There's some
pretty solid rocks In the Occur d'Al
enc, however, and | should like to
wait around and see if they don't hold
out, but I'll never make it. I've been
In too much excitement.
"Well, the next thing after Jonesy
got established was that his niece
must come out during vacation and
pay him a visit. Jeerusalem" thinks
thin, yaller. sour little piece, with
mouse colored hair plastered down on
her head and an unkind word for ev-
erybody. JGnesy told me about her be-
ing In college, and then | stuck pair
of them nose grabber specks on the
picture can stand most any kind
Of a man. but If there's anything that
makes the tears come to my eyes it's
a botch of woman. I know they
may have good qualities and all that.
but don't like 'em. and that's the
whole of It, We gave three loud
groans when we got the news In the
bull pen. And cussed for ten min
utes straight without repeating my,
self once, when 1t so fell out that the
members Of the board rolled out oui
way the day the girl had to be sent
for, and Jonesy couldn't break loose
and your uncle was elected to take
the buckbOa and drive twenty miles
10 the railroad. I didn't mind the 60
ting out, but that twenty miles back
with Jonesy's niece, Say, I foamed
Ike q soda water bottle when I goi
into the bull pen and told the boy,
| my luck. rlrarT ..-. z .s- "a
well says Kyle Lambert, that
what y5d might expect; your sins have
found Joy out
''No, they amt: they've caught me
at home as usual gays l. We'll, III
| 1--we that eastern blossom an idea OF
the quality of this country. anyhow.
So I toys myself up In the awfullest
rig could find: strapped two cartridge
belts to me, every hole filled, and Q
gun In every holster; put candle grease
on my mustache and twisted the end:
up to my eye winkers; STUCK knife
in my hatband and another in my boot
threw a shotgun and q rife in the
blackboard and pulled out quick
through the colt pens before Jonesy
could get his peeps on to me.
...Well, sir, was Jared witless when
I laid my eyes on that young woman
I'd had my mind made up so thorough
as to what she must be that the facts
knocked me cold. She was the sweet
est haiids6mest, healthiest female
ever see. II would make you believe In
fairy stories again just to look at her
She was all the things a man ever
wanted in this world rolled up in a
prize package. Tall, round and soople
timber and springy In her action as q
thoroughbred and with something mod.
est yet kind of daring in her face that
would remind you of good, honest
boy. Red, white and black were the
colors she few. Hair and eyes black,
cheeks and lips red, and the rest OF
her white. Now, there's pile of diff.
ference in them colors, when you say
red for instance, you amt cleaned
up the sGbject by a sight. My top
| knots red, but that wasn't the color
of her cheeks. No; that was color
l never saw before nor since. A rose
would look like tomater alongside Of
'em. Then, too, I've seen black eyes
so hard and shiny you could cut glass
with 'em. And again that wasn't her
style. The only way you could get a
notion Of what them eyes were like
would be to look at 'em; you'd remem-
Der 'em all right II you did. Seems
Ike the good Lord was kind of care.
less when he built Jonesy. but when
he turned that girl out he played
square with the family.