The silver messenger., 1908-06-02
BY Bailey MiIIard
Copyright. BY Joseph B. Bowle,1

,dgbt uprush of clean, white
wings followed on the instant
Ssng Of the barnyard gate.
" pOst do Z think O. women ranch
.soo was the wrathful flash OF
esa % stubbs, addressed to the fur
E 81. birds. 81 think they ought to
~ n the kitchen an not go to
l'sp .pnIn' aroun' tellin' growed-up men
saSsr u take the shoes off'n horses
~ sbe a 19-year-old gal! Did she
~ about horses feet at that Salt
'.to seminary? I'd like to know!
= bsr NAV and paw only was alive!'
aob don't take on, Zeke." said Uri
v,sgin coming around corner of the
,,ru "May Window got few extra
,,IIs at the seminary, but she amt
,Dlled. not by a jug-full. An she
tnows all about horses"
Ur was the hired man on the Win
,om ranch and Zeke was his helper
aAp' she amt so dreadful stuck-up
:, Won think" added Uri. IF she was
,be wouldn't be a-goin' out with the
sheep"
Coin out with the sheep! Great
nakes OF all the ram-butted ideesi
An all alone among them men?
Guess you can count me out this time
don't want no woman boss on the
range. The idee! A woman sheep
herder!"
4she amt a-goin' alone" said Uri.
How them"
Wal you know Sandy Baffin'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 Bricker know
about sheep?" asked zeke contemptu-
Ously. Been a freightin' all his life"
"Oh, Russ won't have much ter say.
Miss WINDOWS goin' 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 well off'n the range by that
time. Wen hit Sky-Medder about the
ffth day out, if we have good luck.
Trouble is the's so DANCED many out
Its thatll be headed that way, an they
nay git in ahead We don't dast start
my sooner for that's the earliest any
'ody ever goes; but we'll be in luck
some range sneaks don't git in
head of us"
Precisely this 1t was that worried
iiss May Window. Russ had told
er that it would be a race for the
ky-Meadow country-the best range
the Wasatch mountains-and she
'as intensely eager to get in first
lth her band. She had been out on
ne range several times before her
amer died-once as long as a month.
MS time she wanted to stay the
mole season. The seminary, with its
llted diction and its stiff rule of
nhgs generally, had irked her. She
ad gone there because it was her
sad father's wish Even now that it
as all behind her, the seminary
'emed to be clinging to her skirts.
le wanted to get away to the noun
ms. She loved the wild life and she
Ved the sheep. Above all things she
as eager to get to the range ahead
Lew Madden, who drove a large
'rd OF his own shearing up that way
cry spring as soon as the season
'ened. Lew was Objectionable to her
no other way than that he had tried
make himself particularly agreeable
her, with the result that she had
NJ MIN about his business. She
uld hardly have told why she had
Ie thls, for Lew was big and strong
u looked finer in his saddle than
y otner man in Juab county. Prob
y she had refused him because he
u taken her for granted. Being ia
Il Ior granted was very odious to