Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1908-06-11
"A Double
Mix-Up
By Bailey MnIars


| pigeon wings fOii0Weu on tho ihstaA
| the bang OF the barnyard gate.
what do think o. women rancl
| bosses?" was the wrathful fash 0
Zeke Stubs, addressed to the huI
rying birds. Il think they ought 7
keep to the kitchen an not go L
snoopin' aroun tellin' growed-up mel
how to take the shoes offn horses
| An she a 19-year-old gal! Did sh'
larn about horses feet at that Sal
Lake seminary? I'd like to know
II her nav and paw only was alive!'
"Oh, don't take on, Zeke,S said Ur
Wiggin, coming around corner OF the
barn. MAY Window got a few extri
frills at the seminary, but she ain
spilled. not by jug.full An she
knows all about horses"
Uri was, the hired man on the win
dom ranch and Zeke was his helper
San she amt so dreadful stuck-uI
as you think" added Uri. IF she was
she wouldn't be a-goin' out with the
sheep"
Coin out with the sheep! Great
snakesl OF all the ram-butted idees!
An all alone among them menf
Guess you can count me out this time
don't want no woman boss on the
range. The idee! A woman sheep
herder!"
"She amt a-goin alone" said Uri.
How them"
oval, you know Sandy Bafin's
Gertie, that married Russ Bricker?
She's a-goin' along, too. Mays got
Russ to look out fer things fer her,
an Gertie's a-goin to do the cookin'.
An I'm a-goin an so are you-you
can't git out Of it."
what does Russ Brlcker know
about Sheep" asked Zeke contemptu-
ously. Been a freightin' all his life"
ooh, Russ won't have much ter say.
Miss Windows goini to run the hull
shootin' match herself"
Great guns! They'll git sick 'nough
O. women bosses!" snorted Zeke
when does this here fool expedition
start out?"
Week from mex Thursday. Snow'll
be pooty we'll off'n the range by that
time. Well hit Sky-Medder about the
fifth day out, II we have good luck.
Trouble is the's SO DANCED many out
fits that'll be headed that way, an they
may git In ahead. We don't dast start
any sooner for that's the earliest any
body ever goes; but we'll be in luck
II some range sneaks don't git in
ahead Of us"
Precisely this it was that worried
Miss May Window. Russ had told
her that 1t would be a race for the
Sky-Meadow Countrywide best range
In the Wasatch mointains-and she
was intensely eager to get in first
with her band She had been out on
the range several times before her
father died-once as long as month.
This time she wanted to stay the
whole season. The seminary, with its
stilted diction and its stiff rule Of
things generally, had irked her. She
had gone there because it was her
dead fathers wish. Even now that 1t
was all behind her, the seminary
seemed to be clinging to her skirts.
She wanted to get away to the noun
tains. She loved the wild life and she
loved the sheep. Above all things she |
was eager to get to the range ahead
Of Lew Madden, who drove a large
herd of his own shearing up that way
every spring as soon as the season
opened. Lew was Objectionable to her
IN no other way than that he had tried
% make himself particularly agreeable
% her, with the result that she had
tent him about his business. She
,ould hardly have told why she had
lone this, for Lew was big and strong
md looked finer in his saddle than
NY other man in Juab county. Prob
Ibly she had refused him because he
lad taken her for granted. Being Ia
zen for granted was very odious to
Ier
Sing hey for the range! The spring
vas in May WINDOWS blood when she
ct out mounted on Fidget, her cow
oy hat tapping in the wind that blew
own from the cool uplands and her
ray eyes alive with the thrill Of the
TART She rode beside the Brickers,
lille Uri and Zeke drove in the camp
aeons for the first few tame miles
long the lane from zephi, the meek
leep trotting passively ahead.
By evening they were well up into
lie foothills, having forced the sheep I
rward at q very good pace.
Next morning Uri decided to take &
% trail over the ridge. While II was 1
sep and rough It cut on about eight
lies OF the Journey to the sky.MeaA 4
, country and when they made camp
ct night zeke decided Lew Madden
~ q good Eve miles behind.
-Cooesl CoOeei" yelled Uri a. Nay ,
lned him. The Madden OUTFIT must q
lound another cutoff. But they'll