The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-26


Yes"
Or cattle?'
"Of course What's that to do witt
the natter"
You might even let your great, rec
Devon bull, as takes so many prizes
an have got such deuce an all of /
temper, run loose there, if you wa:
minded to--eh?"
by Cor said Nick Westaway. II
that ban't an idea
An SO next day thai bull was wal
lowing in pool o mud in the middle
of the meadow an wondering at his
luck
An when Young Len LETT Westaway
he went straight down to see Mary
Jane Arscott. \ crooked game he
played, sure enough,
They had i bit of loee-making by
the river; an then Ben arranged to
meet her uesl DAY an go ont upon
Belstone Tor Al pick Whortleberries
But he never said no word touching
his talk with Nicholas Westaway.
Well the girl. who lived in a cot
tage down the valley. came up as a
matter of course by the fieldpath to
Belstone in the morning; an for that
matter. Westaway had long since CIV
en- her special permission to do so.
Her was half way across the great
meadow with nothing in her thoughts
but mushrooms and whortleberries an
Benjamin Pearn, when there coined a
sound very high pitched an ugly. 1t
got louder an deeper till she heard a
proper below, an there right ahead.
she seed Nick Westaways great red
Devon bull a-pawing an a-prancing as
If he was trying TO dance the sailors
hornpipe.
She drorped her basket and ran for
her life. She weren't built for run
ming, but nature Will do a great d@l.
even for the prordest OF us, in . plRGA
like this an for Once her got over tho
ground in very fine fashion. ShN'd
reached within ten yards of the heAaN
when she hear d scout, an man
came tearing down the filed-path; but
he was too late. Mary Jane went heed
first into the hedge, screaming to the
Everlasting TO spare her. an the bulls
horns just gave her the ghost OF Q
touch-enough to swear by after-a1
she went through all ends up.
OF course, the man was Benjamin
Pearn. An he knowed really that the
field-path ran nigh the hedge, an he'd
been dead sure as Nary Jane would
not get into no real danger Besides,
he had planned to be there in plenty
of time, an it wasn't till he actually
seed Mary Jane flying an the bull a.
believing after her. with his tail up
an his hea down. that he knowed
what he'd done
ITO think gasped Mary Jane. TO
think as ! might he a lifeless jelly this
moment but for nay own legs! II
you'm man, benjamin Pearn, you'll
go an get your gun an shoot hin!"
They'd put me IN prison for it-not
that I'd mind that II you'd have me
when coined ont" said Ben very
eager like rBut. he added as an
after-thought, the dashed luck Of 1t
Is | haven't got u gun
Her black eyes flashed an her
gypsy-darh face growed darker still.
You'd best to borrow gun Their" "
she told him. Anyway. I won't marry
you while that bulls alive; an If you
was man you'd never sleep TIL you'd
put bullet through it,"
Same morning she went up with
her mother to Belstone an gave Mich.
olas WestaWay the whole law and the
prophets, by ali accounts. His ears
must have tingled to hear her; but he
was pretty cool head, an when she'd
talked herself out of breath an failed
back on torrents an oceans Of tears,
an when her mother had also said
what she had coined TO say, wii;ch was
mere tinkling brass after Mary Jane,
Nick popped in 4 word or two edge
ways.
'Tf you'll be SO very kind as to hold
your noise a minute-ine pair of YOU
I'll tell you how the bull got in the
field" ne said TWasn't my idea at
all. Ben Pearn put me up TO it. So
you've got to thank him. not me. /
didn't know as you was coming to Bel,
stone to-day. Gods my Judge, or I'd
have been at the stile to meet yea an
see you over the meadow safe; but he
knowed you was coming. Any fool
can see that he meant to kill you"
He axed me to come" said Mary
Jane.
Did he? Then It's him you've got
to thank, not me tbs only by the
mercy of Heaven he ban't a murder.
err
You'd better look after him then, "
I'VE told 'un to shoot your bull"
Let 'un.' answered Nicholas very
cunning. I'D shoot the old devil my.
self for daring to run after you"
Then MS Arscott struck the iron
while it was hot, an afore she LETT tne
parlor Mary Jane had named the DAY.
So Ben was sent off with Il flea M
his ear, an he changed his opinion
about marriage an growed to De a
hard an fast bachelor an a lover r,f
saving money. But as for Mary Jane,
she did her husband a power OF good
an enlarged his mind every way. An
when they got family young West.
away's nature coined very we'll
through the usual ups an downs el
life. he fanced hisself less, ~
thought of his little people an his
good lady first, an fowed bit more
like his father before him Not, Ut
course, that he was the man his
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