The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-04-01

| pleeon wings followed on the inStan
the bang of the barnyard gate.
What do l think O. women ranc
bosses?" was the wrathful flash G
Feke Stubbs, addressed to the flul
Tying birds. Il think they ought t
keep to the kitchen an not go t
saoopin aroun' tellin' growed.up me-
how to take the shoes off'n 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,' said Ur
Wisgin, coming around a corner of thu
barn. MAY Window got a few extra
irllls at the seminary, but she ain
spilled. not by a jug-full. An she
knows all about horses"
Cri was the hired man on the Win
dom ranch and Zeke was his helper
An she amt SO dreadful stuck-ur
as you think" added Uri. IF she was
she wouldn't be a-goin' out with the
sheep"
Coin out with the sheep! Great
snakes! Of all the ram-butted idees!
An all alone among them men
Guess you can count me out this time.
l don't want no woman boss on the
range. The idee! A woman sheep.
herder!"
"She amt a-goin' alone" said Uri.
How them"
wal, you know Sandy Baf11n'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 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 Ifex' Thursday. Snow'll
be poorly we'll off'n the range by that
time. Well hit Sky-Medder about the
fifth day out, If we have good luck.
trouble is the's so DANCED many out
hts that'll be headed that way, an they
may git in ahead. We don't dast start
my sooner for that's the earliest any.
BODY ever goes; but We'll be in luck
I some range sneaks don't git in
lhead of u.s."
Precisely this it was that worried
Miss May Window. Russ had told
Ter that it would be a race for the
'ky-MeadoW countryside best range
n the Wasatch mountains-and she
vas intensely eager to get in first
With her band. She had been out on
ne range several times before her
ather died-once as long as a month.
MS time she wanted to stay the
mole season. The seminary, with its
tilted diction and it's stiff rule Of
Kings generally, had irked her. She
ad gone there because it was her
cad fathers wish. Even now that it
as all behind her, the seminary
eemed to be clinging to her skirts.
ne wanted to get away to the noun.
'1ns. She loved the wild life and she
wed the sheep. Above all things she
as eager to get to the range ahead
Lew Madden, who drove q large
'Fc OF his own shearing up that way
'eFy spring as soon as the season ]
'ened. Lew was Objectionable to her ,
no other way than that he had tried
make himself particularly agreeable t
her, with the result that she had ]
mt him about his business. She
uld hardly have told why she had :
ne this, for Lew was big and strong c
ID looked finer in his saddle than c
y other man in Juab county. Prob t
ny she mad refused him because he c
a taken her for granted. Being ia
Tor granted was very odious to
Sing hey for the range. The spring q
IS In May WINDOWS blood when she
out mounted on Fidget, her COW q
nat mapping in the wind that blew
WI from the cool uplands and her q
~ eyes alive with the thrill of tho n
IT. She rode beside the Brickers
iie uri and Zeke drove in the camn NJ
CONS for the first few tame miles s
ng the lane from Zephi, the meek
sep trotting passively ahead.
~ evening they were we'll up into v.
foothills, having forced the sheep as
ward at very good pace.
>ext morning Uri decided to take XII
trail over the ridge. While it was ht
ep ana tough it cut off about eight
es OF the journey to the Sky-M Mead he
country and when they made camn SC