The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15

ne WAS plainly new 10 GOD country
and showed it by his artless contempt
of Gods own. Bob Hammill, the driver
of the Las Vegas stage, cOndescended
little to his only passenger Offered
him nip. together with a few rehec-
tons on the universe-and went out
of his way to say some nice things
about over thar" But the straight
backed, yellowed mustached. soldierly-
looking gentleman from over thar re-
ceived these advices with inarticulate
murmurs of repression; and on their
being repeated, turned away the light
of his COuntenanCe from Robert Ham
mill and engrOssed himself in the seen
cry of California. This was pity, not
only for its tacit denial of the brother
hood OF man, but as it later on involved
the descent of the straightforward gen
tleman into what might be called space
together with a dressing case, dis
patch box. hat box, pOrtmanteau, gun
case, portable bath and a roll Of steam
er rugs. The stage dropped him at the
B. dusty crossroads. disappearing in the
direction of what a rusty iron notice
said was jacksonville, while the erst-
while passenger gazed blankly at an
other on which was the half obliterated
inscription: FL Nido Ranch
A little unbending on the part of the
gentleman from "Over thar would
have resulted in BOb's taking a detOur
and disembarking him all complete at
his destination, and this for no other
toll than a grasp of the hand at part
ing and a hearty you're welcome as
he whipped up his four horses. But
Captain Anstruther was unusued to a
scheme of things where a ready fell
lowship counted for more than money.
All his life people had automatically
arisen to carry his baggage, move him
in the proper direction, and answer
generally for his comfort and well
being. To find himself on a dusty road,
iu the heart of a wild and lonely coun-
Try, an orphan traveller so to speak,
with nobody to take care Of him but
himself-was it any wonder that Cap
tain Claude George Pennif1eld Anstru-
Their looked somewhat depressed, or
that the tails of his pugree dropped
Imply in the ambient air of the Golden
state?
OF course, he had a pugree, and
strange, enormous shoes with hob nails
in them, and a wonderful checked
knickerbocker costume, involving a
weird variety of gaiter that stopped
half way up his calf. He was no less
singular inside than out, and next his
skin was a leather money belt, and he
was wound round and round with fan
mel to keep him from having cholera,
and concealed about his person was a
silver drinking cup that cost s
guineas at Silver's, and a compact lit
tie filter that weighed only pound.
and an extraordinary knife of extra
ordinary size, which had a folding
spoon in 1t, and a gimlet and saw
and a sailors needle. He had been
''outfitted" in London at an expense of
a hundred pounds sterling, and that
NH f,n ole rod ,O Iyad md
dug things into him when ne sat down.
Why California should require such
terrible preparations it is not for the
narrator to say. Perhaps it is because
she narrator does not know. Does
anybody know, indeed, why the Briton
abroad should assume a guise likely
TO tempt the lightning from its path
and interfere with the stars in their
courses?
Captain Claude George Pennifield
Anstruther regarded his dressing case.
dispatch box, hat box, pOrmanteau,
gun case. portable bath and roll of
steamer rugs with a dawning sense
that British solidity and lightweight
might be carried too far. He was even
more of this opinion by the time he
had conveyed these articles to the
shelter of some adjacent chapparal and
had Iopped of with the help of the
k1llIe Wilik 4itt lDlullS SDotAis llAO sim
LET. saw and sailors needle) enough
ss5s51sty branches TO hide them from the
tsze Of possible passers by.
This accomplished he set off, in no
Very rosy frame OF mind, to follow the
road to FL Nido ranch. He did not
step out with the air of a man assured
Of a bath, a Scotch and soda, and
hospitable welcome On the contrary,
he wore the set expression OF one en-
gagged with a very disagreeable duty,
and his mind instead of dwelling on
the beautiful and romantic scenery,
was weighted like lead besides with
the memory Of dressing case, dis
patch box, hat box, portmanteau, gun
case, portable bath and roll of steamer
rugs left unchecked in the cloak room
of his heaven. However, he ad-
vanced manfully, swinging a very