The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-08

trotted. One began to gallop-all gal
lopeu. They drew closer together al
every step. Before ] realized what was
happening, wall of living flesh was
rolling on me- It was then Fear struck
me-the Fear that freezes in the pit OF
your stomach and makes your whole
past life look like a panorama. 1 stood
stock still. 1 should have kept standing
stock still and died there If it hadn't
been for Muldoon. She jumped about
and faced them, and thus brought her
self alongside of me. With less pres
ence of mind than instinct, L leaped on
her back and ''Whoo-hee-edr' at them.
The wall divided at Muldoon's head
| bare standing room-almost brushing
me away as 1t swept past. No. I did
not want to die that way.
| Brandt, at the moment echoed my
thought. Don't knows I've got any
choice selected way o. dyin'-one's
bouts bad's another when v gotta go
but droppin' down in front of a STAN
pede-that m rattlesnakes in the grass
don't seem like mans death. No, sir
ree-it don't. A bear, an a catamount.
an mule. they know what they're
doin' an they mean it-those critters
don't-they jus do it-same's hailstones
IN don't know no more about it. An
when one o them old maids begins Z
eat tents as change o. food from wire
fences Oh, my aunt IN Omaha! If
there amt Janer'
And there she was
We had ridden up little hillock and
caught her unawares. At the moment
she was handing out the glad horn to
another of her species. Half a dozen
more of the genuine. swell-front. high
stoop' lron-girder, brick-finish variety
stood about and held stakes on the is
sue.
Jane was so completely engrossed in
her gentle pastime that she did not
near our approach; the recipient of her
IaVors was so completely engrossed
that she did not care whether we an
preached or not; the remainder of the
company was so completely engrossed
as to mistake US for others of the same
species. Thus only can I account for
the fact that Jane received no warning
of Brandt's intentions. He swooned mn
on her and caught her by the taiI-and
then Black Bess-good little cow pony
that she waS-pulled off and sat on her
launches oi
Jane came away from the dear COW
she was treating to the glad horn.
James tail very nearly came away
from her.
But Jane took her tail to the wide
spaces when Brandt got through with
The wreath of victory-that is the
sagebrush wreath, there was nothing
else TO make wreath of-remained for
Brandt -oi
We left Jane miles behind us when
we camped at the reservoir. and in Iaes
than no time forgot all about her
flsh, sage chickens. ducks. coyotes.
wolves, antelcpe-who'd remember a
cow-with all that game about? So
fChAd nd
ducks and were happier; and hunted
wolves and We're happfest; and ran an
telope, and were so happy that we
didn't say anything about IL, but went
to bed, after eating all we could stuff
shut our eyes. and discovered IL was
morning. Naturally I forgot Crazy
Jane Brandt says now that he re-
membered her all the time
We had been week at the reservoir.
II was dawn Of one OF those nights
when you wink once and find the sun
shining, and I awoke suddenly-as
though ! had been shot out of sleep.
Brandt and I flung out of bed at the
same moment and dashed into the open.
You-whoi' beloved at us.
l shall never forget that sight as
long as I live Half surrounding the
tent line OF cattie-20o at least-were
rolling on us, Crazy Jane in the lead
It was like hostile army. How the
early settlers must have felt when they
awoke to find their cabins surrounded
by Indians,
You-who-who-WH beloved
Jane. at the head of the army
You-who-who-WHO repeated
the army.
''WhOo-hee, Whoo-hee," YELLED
Brandt, jumping and swinging his
arms.
But Jane had seen that trick before.
She gave her kittenish. playful frisk.
and flung us a bright "You-who?" and
came on.
The same thought flashed through
Brandt and me at the same instant
To get the rifles from the tent-to run
the distance from where we stood and
back again-meant TO risk death in the
tent. or be tangled in IT, even if Crazy
Jane and her band did not gore it-and
us-to tatters. Strange to relate. the
thing We might have done-jump into
the reservoir and swim for it-did not
occur TO us TIL the day after
"You-who?" Jane beloved: ana
'You-wko2" she sllrieked in derision
as she jumped forward
Whoo-hee-whoo-hee velled
Brandt popping off the ground ana |
ia piping like n windmill
Jane paused long enough to toss her