Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-29


division, notably the urea. woo''o II
bridge at E'ooky creek. Richard
brought ont his nephew, Lance Dan
ming. He taught Lance bridge build.
ing, and Murray Sinclair. who began
as a cowboy on tire Stone ranch,
learned br!dgeouildng from Richard
Dunning. The Du3riags bo;h came
west. though at different ..;ies. as
young men and Unmarried, and 50 far
as "cbier1 women we're concerned.
might always have remained so. Eut
a Kentucky cousin. Retry, one of the
Fairfield Dunninqs, rc,a..G to Richard
within :he sixth or eighth degree.
came TO the mountaina for her health
Betty's mother had brought Richard
up as boy. and !astty, when he lef'
yairfi"id vas n baby. Gu. Dich--as
shey know lin at homeland tho
mother wrote back and for,h, aud he
persuaded hor 10 send Betty on. for a
trip. promising he woGli send her
pack in n year welF-%ornau.
Betty came with ouly hsr colored
maid, old Puss Dunnirg, who had
taken her from .ke nurses arms -nan
she was bern and takrn care Of her
ever since. The two-tnc tail Ken
lucky girl and tho bant n.amrly-ar-
lived at the Stone ranch one day in
June, and Richard, done then, with
bridges and looking after his rancn
interests, had already fallen violently
In love with Betty. She was delicate
but. II those IN Medicine bend who re-
membered her said true. lovely
creature. Remaining in the mountains
was the last thing Betty had eve-
thought OF. hut no one. man or woman
could withstand Dick Dunnins. She
fell quite in love with him the first
time she set eyes on rim in Medicine
Bend. for he was very handsome in
too saddle ard BETTY vas fairly wild
about ho-ses. So Dick Duupng
woodd fond mattress and married
her ond hurieI her, and all within
hardly r7ore than . year.
But N that year they we're very
happy, never two happier, and when
she Slept away her suffering she left
him. as legacy a iihy baby girl. Puss
brouSh. the mite % creature in It's
s~addling closes to the sick ncthe-
very. very sick thcn--2nd poor Bet
ty turned her darl; eyes on It. kissed
Il, looked at ner hlsband and whis.
2ercd "Dic);sie." and Gled Dicls.c
had 3-en Bett?'s pc. name for he
mountair lover so tho father said the
ohi,d's name should be Dicks.e and
nothing else; and his heart br5le ana
sooE he die1 Nothing else, storm or
food, dcnth or disaster, had eTeT
t:oved Dick Dunnins then a sir
gle blow killed Tin lie ride
once IN while ever tire ranch, Il
great ,ract oy that tire OF 20 0oc
acres. all Il. one body, al under fence,
up AMI down both sidcs of the Big
river in psrt irrigated swarming with
cattle-none OK IL stirred Dick and
With little D.cHs:e IN his arms ne
sl,1t away MS suffering.
So D:cksie was lAfl. AZ &c, mother
he'd been, ~ Puss. wnile Lance looked
after the ranct. svo.e at the price OF
cattla, and played cards 1T Medicine
Bend. At ten. L. cks'e. as thoroughly
spoiled - pat baby could be by a
fool Mammy. a fond cousin. and q
galaxy OF devoted cowho.7s. was sent,
IN spite ot crying and f.agns to a
far-away cOnveot-her iathof had
planned ever Jlline--where in many
tears she learned hat there wsra 9th
er things II the worlo besides cattle
and mountains and sunshine and tall.
broad Sattct horsomen to swing from
the.r gtirrurs and pick her not from
the ground just Is see littlc Dlcksie
lauBh-whcn they sw~oped past The
house 10 the cc:rils. When sha came
back from Kentucky. her grandmother
dead and her scnColdaya Finished all
the land she could see in tho vale
vas hers. and al tho living creature,
in the fields Il seemed perfectly
natural, because since childhood even
tina distar; mountains and their SHOWS
mad heeL Dicksie's.