The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-07
The Soaring of the Saeawas


they're much worse than some others
that amt got SO good an excuse.
1 was sittin' on my front porch. at
Primrose Park, when in rolls that big
bubble of Sadie's, with her behind the
plate glass and rubber.
But 1 thought you was figurin' in
that big house party out to Breeze
Acres" says !, where they've got a
duchess on exhibition"
It's the duchess I'm running away
FROM" says Sadie.
You amt gettin' stage fright this
late in the game. are yuu?" says 1.
Hardly" says she. I'm bored,
though. The duchess is a frost She
talks Of nothing but her girls charity
school and her complexion baths. Thir
" of us have been shut up with her
for three days now, and we know her
by heart Pinckuey asked me to drop
around and see if l could find you. He
says he's played billiards and poker
until he's lost all the friends he ever
had. and that if he doesn't get some
exercise soon he'll die of indigestion.
VIII you let me take you over for the
. night?"
Well, I've monkeyed with them swell
house parties before, and generally I've
dug up trouble at EN-; but for the sake
of Pinckueys health l said I'd take
another chance; so i'm l climbs, and we
goes Zippin' of through the mud. Sadie
hadn't told me mOre'n half the cat
scraps the women had pulled off durin'
them rainy days before we was most
there.
Just as we slowed up TO turn into the
private road that leads up TO Breeze
Acres. one of them dinky little one
hunger benzine buggies comes along,
missin' forty explosions TO the minute
and cOughin itself 10 death on a grade
you could hardly see. All of a sudden
sCmethin' goes of, Bang. and the Teller
that was iugglin' the steerin' bar
throws up both hands like he'd been
shot with a ripe tomato.
"Caramba" says he. Likewise CAD
cooks" as the antique quits mOvin al
together.
I'd have known that lemon-colored
pair of lip whiskers anywhere. LeOni-
das Dodge has the only ones in cap
tivity. / steps out of the show case in
time TO see mister man lift OF the front
lid and shove his head into the works.
rs the post norton on?" says 1.
BY the bear of the prophet" says
he, swingin' around. Shorty McCaber'
much Obliged TO meet YOU" says I,
givin' him the grip. THE Electro
PolishO business must be bOomin', "
says I, when you carry il around in a
gasolene coach. But go on with your
autopsy. Is it locomotor ataxia that
ails the thing, or cirrhosis OF the spark
in plug?'
It's near senile dementia," says he.
Gaze on that piece of mechanism,
Shorty. There isn't another like it i'm
the country"
Il can believe that" says l.
For an auto il was the punkiest ever.
No two of the wheels was mates or the
-same size; the times was bandaged like
Il. IL
was wabbly; one of the side lamps was
tin stable lantern; and the seat was
held on by a couple of cleats knocked
of the end of a packing box.
Looks like IL had seen some first
aid repairin," says 1.
some says LeOnidas "Why, Pve
nailed this relic together at least twice
week for the last two months. I've
used wagon bolts, nuts borrowed from
Wayside pumps, pieces of telephone
wire, and horseshoe nails. Once l rar
twenty miles with the sprOcket chair
tied up with twine And yet they say
that the age of miracles has passed
II would need a whole machine shop tC
get her going again." says he. I'll
wait until my wagons come up, anC
then Wen get out the tow rope"
Wagons" says 1. You amt trav.
elm with a retinue, are you?"
That's the exact word for it," saw.
he. And then LeOuidas tells me about
the Sasawa aggregation. Ever see one
of these medicine shows? Well, that,
what LeOnidas had. He was sole pro
prietor and managing boss of the out
fit.
We carry eleven people. includine
drivers and canvas men," says he
'and we give a performance that the
: Proctor houses would charge seventy,
five a head for. It's all for a dime. 10,
quarter for reserved-and our gentle
manly ushers offer the SagaWa for sal,
only between turns"
you talk like a three-sheet poster.
says /. Where you headed for now p
Were making q hundred-mile sum-
up into the mill towns" saws he. "anC
before We've worked up as far as PROV
idence l expect we'll have 10 carry tn,
receipts in kegs"
That was Leonidas. all over; seem
rainbOws when other folks would b,
predictin' a JOhnstOWn flood. JUS
about then. though. the bottom began
TO drop out of another cloud. so
lugged him over TO the big bubble an,
put him inside.
Sadie says I. Il want you to know
an old side pardner Of mine Hi
names LeOnidas Dodge. or used to be
and there's nothing yellow about hin
but his hair"
And say. Sadie hadn't more'n hear,
about the Sagawa outfit than she be
gins to smile all over her face; so
guesses right OFF that she's got tangle
up with some fool idea.
1T would he such a change from tn
duchess if we could get Mr Dodge L
stop over at Breeze Acres tonight an
give his show" says Sadie
Madam" says LeOnidas, you
wishes are my commands
Sadie kept on GRIMM and plannir
out the program, while Leonidas pS Sse
out his high English as smooth as
= demOnstratOr at a food show. Insid
of ten minutes they has IL all fixed
Then Sadie slzips into the little gat
cottage, where the timekeeper lives
and calls up Pinckney on the hOus
phone And say! what them two can
think of in the way of fool stunts n
one else can.
BY the time she'd got through, tn
SagaWa aggregation looms up on tn