The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-14
New York Tribune)


No 7 don't say there's nOwthin' ID
this absent treatment like. MY Grill
cism is that there's liable to be TOO
much I'm ii and that you will let loose
something you wish you had let ALONE
if YOU git to foolin' with II.
Rim ClrIew is a mean, low-doWn cussi
If he does live on a tolerable high NIL
Hes worried and prosecuted the WnoiS
neighborhood for twenty years. bilt
has trouble with his eyesight AN
tell one side of a fence from totheI' n
got over on Mrs Cases and chaWpeu
down twenty-five cords OF OAK one IN
ter. She sent him notes by her boS,
letters through the mail. messages, ana
finally went TO see him herself, but Bill
he kept right on chawpin'. Then sne
had him arrested. Some folks thought
that was going too far. Mrs case
barn burned down three days after she
got a Judgment against WHY, KIM
ten cows and three horses.
Henry Dorr got to missin' feed out OF
his grain room and bought a big Dog
He heard the dog start yelhn IN the
night and run skallyhOOtin' out over
WHY'S land. Couple o. days ialeI
Willy sent in a complaint that Dorr
dog had bit him. Something had OH
him all right. The dog or NOBODY
couldn't testify as TO under what cir
cumstances the bitin' was DONE so the
dog had to be shot.
Mrs Curlew was on the school COM
mittee of the town and took special
charge of our deestTict. She had fam
lily and professional pride in the record
Of her four kids. Her proud nature
simply couldn't bear TO see them
children outdone. Browns girl, Maud,
was a year ahead of Eddie Curlew,
same age. Mrs. Curlew ordered Maud
showed back, Ito make it interestin' for
Eddie" who was all alone, our school
bein small. Mrs. Brown she raised a
boiler and went to the school commit
tee members of the rest of the town,
and Maud wasn't put back. Then
Browns dog was poisoned. Mrs. Cur
lew, she ordered Sammy Gray put back
with Kitty CUrlew, and Mrs. Gray made
a row. and it warn't done. The Grays
didn't have no dog. but a likely little
heifer was found dead in the pasture
few days later. When Mrs. Curlew tried
10 put Jennie Morrison back with Liz
zie Curlew. the Morrisons might have
stood for it if they had been supersti-
/ tiOus; but they warn't, and they didn't
have no dogs and no cattle. But their
old tom cat never come home no more,
and something must have got a lone
old goose they had, and Eddie Curlew,
| kinder off his guard like, said he
/ thought goose meat was the best they
/ is. Well, George Goss, he insisted upon
keepin' his boy Jim where he was, Std
| of goin' back with Annie Curlew. and
/ three of his hogs died and four hens.
| Queer lot of condolences.
/ Out in an uncivilized state like Indi-
ana they take a man like Bill Curlew
and fog him. or notify him TO either
git or take the consequences of stayin'.
/ But in New England we're too law
| abidin' to do anything to folks that
amt law-abidin OF course. we neigh
/ bOTs sometimes talked over these things
and that is how Stacks summer boarder
got into it. First off, he suggested the
Indiany plan of neighborhood improve
ment and village Identification, but We
said we lived in New Hampshire, sOrter
Twin death, sometimes, but the Old
Thirteen has traditions that has 70 be
kept up"
who's keepin' up of EN-" says
Stacks summer boarder. you men, OF
Bill Curlew?"
We'll, one thing about it is" said
/ Henry Dorr, "Curlew is a sort Of meas
ly Teller, not regular sickly, perhaps
but sorter picked. Il is possible that if
it warn't for that mebbe I'd so far for
git my self-respect as to lick him. Bat
ne amt hardly robust enough. Fact
is, they say the critter is sick right
now. He thinks he's got appendicitis '
Give him absent treatment" said
| Stacks summer boarder and he TOLD
US some interestin' things. Now my
proposition amt to cure him, but C
| make him sicker. He's a kind Of wolf
| a dangerous animil, him and his fam
lily. There's really no tellin' when q
/ chap so sandy with p'izen may take Il
into his head to feed it out to YOU
children Std of dog. Now this men
/ tai treatment can be worked in tw,
ways. BY wantin' to cure folks, think
in about em intently and jest natural