Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-21

dig story, but since 1t had took him
al day, you say nothing to discourage
min from his chosen turnpike. You
are.ready to forgive him for not help
iing you get the wood, and he knows
Ut. x on are ready and willing to make
allowances. just as you always have
for his shortcomings when in fact he
has not been over a mile away ali 1day.
When you speak of hearing a snot;
he says, u shot squirrel soon
after ! left YOU, but the dog had
started the deer and I knew from the
way the dog acted that he was after
larger game, and did not stop to get
the squirrel" Gle never acknowledges
tnat he ever misses anything,)
The truth Is, he killed the deer in
less than an hour after he left you
Some one had shot the deer and broken
It's leg or he would not have got it,.
linen he tied the dog fast, and Law
down on the grass, drank his whisky
and went to sleep and slept until the
evening was coming on and the dog
gettlng hungry howled until he awoke
MS master Butsin his mind he had
concerted wonderful adventures that.
ne would relate when he went to town
And his whisky, is all gone and he in
tends to so to town the very next day;
but he speaks of the feast that you
and your family shall have tomorrow.
and that you had better come back to.
the woods tomorrow for another load
OF wood. That man is gong directly
to perdition, and he talks you out OF
That load OF wood before you get as
3 Tar % his house. You stop for him to
take the deer of. You help him to car
~ 1t into the wood she'd, he promises
you that he Will send half of it over to
your house the next morning. He is
going to dress 1t yet tonight He goes
back to the wa gon and, keeping up a
string of talk, finally says that he
hasn't a stick Of wood, that one of his
horses Is lame and can tiwork and that
the othergone has the distemper. know
Ing full we'll that that will stop YOU
from offering to lend him a horse to
work: With him. Then, he says that if
you VIII throw Off that load 81 wood
when he brings over your half Of
the deer In the morning that he will
take your team and go and get you a
load. You are not out of wood anyway. s.
You never are. You had gone for that
load only because you were not very
busy about the farm. Just then, his
poor Wife comes around the corner Of
the house with an apron full of chips
and sticks that she has picked up to
COOK the supper. That settles IT. In
SANITY, You think OF your own wife
and you know that she never has to
40 that, for she is we'll provided for
You throw off the wood through pity
for his wife. q 80
Inc next day you do not turn your
horsss out in the pasture. thinking yoI,r
Hnelshnor,.will be over to get them. He
mas t. come anyway to bring the vent
son. Zen, eleven, twelve, one o'clock.
.thu your man has not come. The day
IS pretty well broken up for any kind
OF work. and you feel somewhat dis.
appointed In not getting your venisor.
You conclude to ride, over and see what
has happened. II
You ride UP to the gate -HelIo.',
his vile comes to the door and i'm
forms you that her husband went ia
5to"n IN the early morning, that he rode
the ujAlAlE horse, that he told her he
was going to get medicine for the 9TH
or morse, that he had not seen for
month. His wife asks you to come in
ana get some OF the ven.son. And you
ma 1T Just as you had left 1t except
he mad skinned place large enough to
cut piece out for their supper. oh,
he Is going straight to the dogs and
you will not see him again for n week
But You treat his family kindly and
say nothing of his too frequent ex-
cursions to town. tits only a question
of time when he will he at the end of
his Journey 1t comes sooner than YOU
expect He got drunk as soon as he got
to town and was telling all about the
big hunt he had had the day be- q
lore. and that he had followed the deer
twenty miles, killed It. and carried 1t
back in four hours. Some one doubted
his assertions The lie was given. A
drunken brawl was the result and he 4
was killed They carried him home 4
70 ms broken. hearted wife and ten
children. You helped to put him away
as respectfully as possible, sparing no 4
expense out of your own pocket to do
50, Your synpathies are with the poor
family. left without a husband and
father. You help them on season after
season, and do not feel that you are
doing any more for them than usual.
And you are not
You often think OF and speak to your