The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-19
SHORTY'S GO WITH ART

In on some of that, or I'll be pulled into
another rubber"
About an hour later. after they'd jol-
lied me into stayin' all night. 1 puts on
a sweater and starts out for some hoof
exercise in the young blizzard that was
maxim things white outside. Sadie
holds me up at the door. Her cheeks
was blazin', and 1 could see she was
holdin' the Sullivan temper down with
both hands.
Hello" says l. Whats been stirrin'
you up?'
Bridget" snaps she. 81 guess if
you'd been glared at for two hours, and
called stupid when you lost, and worse
names when you won, you'd feel like
throwing the cards at some one"
well. why didn't you?" says L.
II did" says she. land there's an
awful row on: but l don't care! And
if you don't stop that GRIMM I'll"
Well, she does it. That's the way
with Sadie. words is always too slow
for her. Inside of minute she's out
chasin' me around the front yard and
peltin' me with snOwballs.
See here" says /, diggin' a hunk of
snow out of one ear, that kind of
sports all to the merry: but if I was
you I'd dress for the part. SNOWFALL
in in slippers and silk stockin's and A
d
you are such a warm one on top"
who's a red head?" says she. you
just wait a minute, Shorty McCabe.
and I'll make you sorry for thati
II want a minute. it was nearer fif-
teen; but when Sadie shows up again
she's wearin' the slickest Canuck cos
tune you ever see, all blanket stripes
and red tassels, like girl on a gift
calendar.
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| begins to fly in chuncks. 1t was the
damp. packy kind that used to make
us get out and soak the tall hats when
we was kids And Sadie hasn't forgot
| ten how to lam 'em in. either. We was
havin' it hot and lively, all over the
lawn. when the first thing I knows out
comes Mrs. Purdy Pell and Pinckney
and lot of others to join in the muss
They dragged out a whole raft of to-
boggan outfits from the Nttic and The
minute they gets 'em on they begins t.
act as coltish as 2-year-olds.
! Well say, you wouldn't have thought
high rollers like them, that gets Their
| fun out of playin' the glass works ex-
hibit at the op'ra. and eatin' l a. m
| suppers at Sherry's, and doublin' ne
| trumps at a quarter a point, could un'
buckle enough to build snow forts, and
yell like Indians. and cut up like kid:
generally. But they does-washeC
each others faces. and laughed ant
whooped it up until dark. Didn't need
the dry Martins to jolly up appetites
for that bunch when dinner time come
and if there was anyone awake II
Rockywold after 10 o'clock that night
1 it was the butler and the kitchen help
I looked for 'em to forget II all by
mornin' and start in again on theil
punky card games; but they was all VI
bright and early. plannin' out new
stunts There's been a lot of snow
dropped during the night. and some one
gets struck with the notion that build
in snow men would be the finest spor'
in the world. They couldn't hardly
wait to eat breakfast before they get!
on their blanket clothes and goes at 1t
They was rollin' up snow all over the
place. as busy as longshoremen-all bu'
Pinckney. He gives out that him anC
me has been appointed an art commit
tee to rake in an entrance fee of ter
bones each and decide who gets the
purse for doin' the best job.
'G'wan," says I. 81 couldn't refere'
no such fool tournament as this
That's right, be modest" says he
Don't mind our feelings at all"