The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-25
MINlNG-FINANcIAL
By EWELL 70 RID
Copyright 1905 by sewen Ford. All rights reserved.

Well. she scrabbles, and hauis, and
over she comes, all in heap. Then
we can just make out the white thing
rushin' along about ten yards ahead OF
US.
Keep close to the fence so we won't
get lost" says I.
All right says She There he Is,
See? He must be out of his head.
Let's try stealing up on him."
Talk about your deer stalkin'i That's
what Teenie and 1 was doing; but as
fast as we moves up the white thing
ahead goes along, too.
No use" says 7. Let's rush him"
She was lively on her feet Teenie
was, in spite Of the dressin' gown
handicap, and we had got under good
Roadway: when all Of a sudden we sees
the white thing go up in the air three
or four feet and then disappear. Say. it
was kind of weird at the time, too
Clementina Is game. though. She don't
{ stop TO ask any fool questions, but digs
4 in her toes, and the next thing We
knows something has tripped US I'D
I and were tumblin' head over heels
| through a lot Of bushes.
Gee" says l. He knew that was
I there and cleared IL. There he is too
/ Teenie picks herself up. We gets hold
[ Of hands once more. and on we goes.
/ the white thing just about so far
ahead She'd got her mad up BY then
l guess, and want goiu' 10 let a little
/ thing Ike comm a cropper put her out
/ Of the chase. And I shouldn't wonder
/ but she was anxious to say few.
/ words to the major just then. IF he
meant to keep on foolin' us like that
much longer. 7 couldn't blame her.
Wen have him winded If We can
I keep this up says J. ''How's your.
/ sportin blood holdin oUt2'
I'm all right Go on" says
+ Teenie.
She was breathin' some hard by
I then; but a long ways from being all
/ in, so we let out a. few links fer a
/ squirt. Then I see the white thing do
/ another disappearin' act.
Aha says ]. More bushes, over
| we go now, One-twO-three!"
As jumper Teenie wouldn't break
/ any Barnard records. but for a middle
/ aged old girl that want in track cos
! tune. she made a good try for IL. We
/ didn't exactly clear the bushes: but
/ we went saiiin' through the tops Of
/ EN-. and then Ker-1Op, Ker-splash.
/ I'd gone over feet first. so knows as
/ soon as my toes hit the mud that the
I water amt mOre'n knee deep; but
/ Teenie has got some tangled up in her
I fight. and lands on her back kerr
| sOuse. Course she swallows a mouth
/ full or so before I can paw around and
/ FISH her out That and being soaked
( through so sudden simply scaTes her
/ into double and twisted fl. She grabs
me aroVnd the neck tight and proceeds
/ to let out the yelps.
! Help, Help, Help" says she,
| splutterin and chokin' all the while.
but maxim noise enough to rouse up
/ the whole county.
! "Ah, cut it out and CLIMB down. old
/ girl" says l. I'm no life buoy"
/ "Hel-lup! Hel-lup," says she kick
/ in lively with both feet and clawin at
/ the back Of my psjama jacket ike
she was furlin a sail "Oh. I'm dud-
/ dud-dTOwn.ngi"
/ "G'wan," says T. You're actin as
/ if you was climbin' a creased pole.
/ You're all right All quit the contor-
: tons until I can find out where We
| are"
| But she'd got started calm for help.
and there was no stOppin' her. And
/ there was me. up to my knees in chilly
/ water. not DARN 10 walk around for
/ fear of wadin' into a hole. and not able
/ TO put her down.
! Say. I guess we'd been there vet ffIt
| hadn't been for one Of the COachmen
/ Wakin' up at the stables He throws
/ a switch and about three dozen mean
I descents Is turned on. lightin' up the
/ grounds ali around. As St happens
I tAlEAN q AlBlA utAlltoA DhEi U.s. anu ONeE
/ glimpse clears Up the mystery about.
/ the bushes and the fence. Seems the
I NillOUghby's has a private runnin'
course where they train their hunters-i
{ That's the track we'd been fOilOWin',
/ and just at that minute we was in the
| middle of the only water hurdle IN the.
| whole length BY the time the res
I cuin' party locates us. I've climbed out
and landed Teenie on top OF the fence.
But the major says she. 'Oh.
/ where is the MAJOR"
/ Then I looks up the course a ways
and sees what il is we've been follow
/ in over the hurdles: an old white mule
I that's been pastured inside the inclos-
ure. He's standin' there loOkin' at Us.
with one ear Topped and a kind OF hu-
morous. satisfied look on his face.
'Ah. grin, darn you" says 1. and
/ Clementina takes one hOrrifyin'
glimpse and tumbies off the fence in a
/ heap.
/ The coachman seems little puzzled
and suspic Gus: but he's seen SO many
kinds Of queer dOin's at the Wfllough-
T bys that he makes 10 remarks. but
/ leads us around to side door where
I we can get in without trailin' mud
I through the front hall.
As we are passin' the library wing
+ we comes to an open window on the
ground floor. with the shade up and a
Z ID lEllt EElL Itl5ll-- Auu LDeTe
! green-topped table surrounded by FIVE
gents. all payin' strict attention "a
/ the game. Teenie recognizes one OF
/ EN- in a flash
why. major" she squeaIs.
En- says he droppin' the cards
and jumpin' UD from the table.
{ I reckon Teenie had kind Of forgot
{ the figure she was cuttin' then, draped
{ fin a dressin' gown soaked through with
muddy water and escorted by a bare
Footed gent in wet trousers and a torn
pajama jacket But the major amt
missin' any cues. Guess he must have
/ suspected how his sleep walkin' fairy
tale has worked out Anyway. when
/ he meets US in the hail he's ready with
mis- little speech.
."Ciementina - says he. I'm shocked
sfd surprised, out at this hour Of the
night And In that costume"
ooh. ma OT." says Teenie, I'VE were
I looking for you I thought YOU had"
That viii do. Mrs Kilroy." says ne.
I viii hear the rest tomorrow morn
( ing. And let Us hope that you can ex-
plain satisfactorily both to me and 10
Mrs. McCabe. Pray go TO your room,