The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-09-11

stay up half the night drinking and
telling stories. and raising such an
uproar that nobody could sleep. Well
that thing kept up for about ten days
and nights, and one morning Judge
Burns got up with blood in his eye,
He waited for them to come down
stairs, and as luck would have 1t ]
was sitting in the Office and they all
came down stairs together, so the
judge caught them just right. He
was nice, dignified man, and was
politeness itself, and he surprised
them by ordering them out of the
house. He said, II won't stand 1t
any longer. You have turned my
house into a place of carousal, and /
have hardly slept for week. Mel
ther have any of the other guests,
and just will not stand 1t any long
er. Just take your hats and coats
and get out right now"
thought it was going to be the
most embarrassing situation I ever
saw, but Jim McNabb just took 1t
as unconcerned as could be and said:
well, Judge, we have staid with
you all this time without COM
plant. It is true you have not set a
very good table, and naturally we
had to take something else. Your
wines and liquors are the very best,
but, of course, that Is no credit to
you-you didn't make them, but it
is such a contrast with the food that
is put upon your tables, we could not
help being under their influence to
some extent"
Get out of my house and stay
out" says the judge, 'and don't ever
come into it again. Isn't it enough
to drive away my other guests, with
out insulting me as to the tables /
set?"
Then Owen Long chimed' in. "Of
course, the beds are as good as could
be expected from such an host, and
we have endured them and said moth
ing, but is it any wonder that men
should stay up late to protect their
bodies from the fortunes of those
beds and those rooms? OF course, II
supposed you were doing the best you
could under the circumstances and I
said nothing, but if there is any COM
plant to be made, certainly think
1t is our privilege"
"You damned whelps, get out of
my house" roared the judge. Have
! got to be annoyed day and night by
your noise and then have to submit
to having my house slandered be-
sides. Get out in the street and stay
there
Then the next man wiped his nose
and said, ''To be sure we
have made no complaint about the
servants, they have probably done
the best they knew how, and the best
they could be expected to learn un-
der such management, but it is
enough to depress ones spirits to
come within these walls and wait on
The gait of anybody from the porter
up or the proprietor down. It is
enough to drive men to drink to have
% put up with such things, but we
nave said nothing, preferring to Ell
lure in silence what we could not |
hope to change. We knew the obli-
cation was all one-sided, but we have
)atronized you without complaint.
We know things might have been
better but we have made the best of
t."
They just talked the Judge clear
tut of countenance, and he went back
o the desk and left them alone. The
,ext morning they got up early and
vent out in the back yard where
he judge had q bunch OF blooded
chickens, and they killed all the
chickens and dressed them them
elves and took them in and made ar
'angements with the cook to have
hem fried for breakfast. They fixed
he time to have them ready and
vent In and invited the Judge and
Mrs. Burns to have fried chicken
With them, saying they had been out
lown the river last evening to Stew
ms ranch and got some poultry. The
ndge responded, and they had a most
enjoyable time at breakfast and
hings went as smooth as wedding
Inner. But during the day they
missed these fancy chickens from the
hicken yard. or course, there was
lothing to be done but to charge 1t
o their accounts, and they would not
ava word IL he charged at the rste
4 fifty dollars apiece for the chick
ms. It was good time they were
fter. gF
Hansbrough: McNab owned big