The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-11

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&lKUXl tain danced in while Double Mountain
EnZ fork emped itself into the Brazos miles to
Y "a the northward, steamed between It's banks The
~ sheep lay in their camps about the scanty mes
lS- quite the cut banks OF the creek and under
roofing In the slow waters IL was the
time Of nothing nothing and to take lying dow
all the and wind could give Jen sad
and he lay down under hts cottonwood near when ne neep
painted while azy rckety old mouth organ
much Of his tunes s the od Man OF
Arksnsnw Jcn broke of in the middle And
unlike him stranger rode by to cfe out the tale end OF tue
music His taher along instead for the old man rouse
old shack by the creek ana stared
with shaking hand over MS eyes
"Jenrr
"Yep paw" said Jcn as he scrambcd his feet
He long lean and lark son of the PRAIRIE sanuy T
he'd. hard and fifteen years Of age -
70 into the city, e'
Young JEFF was respectful all his life
him to be anything else for the old man
had heavy hand fierce eye which gives his
cutting edge American But now he reared ne' anu
and put his mouth organ away ns"e
his shirt before he spoke When be did speak he uttered f"t
You full las night when you come home paw ne Siu
"I his father. :
"And you don't reklec' what you told me"
Dexter shook his head
reklec word. Did speak? Ia sort OF
kinke speechless."
Young Jer shook his head in turn
Ear paw sat on the table good whle ana
you yanked hear"
wha discourse of' asked his father Il do hope said
no,hng unecomin your father youroor mother
away beyond I've had less sense than
should have. Did blaspheme any?'
,"oh my paw You said onuI things onul."
you repeat Of Jenr asked his father anSousy
"a lot can" replied JEFF promptly But old Dexter raised
my curiosity I'll curb it. I'll offer
when the stiffness outer
knee you forget mighty quick I'll fay
some. will. Get up the pinto. Jef."
JeH showed reluctance to move
Paw. you mostly cussed one pusson"
Dexter back into the shany faced his
son again swiftly! S.
paw. could gather the tale in the
confusion of shoun hev he'd sort OF
difficulty agin with Mr. Walker"
Dexers thundercloud when he heard
what JeK nodded stared Mt the boy from under his
heavy eyebrows which dropped like bent thatch over his burning
II do rekec" he said at last Him and me had words
I've a boys pulled me down
and held knew JeT had business in town and couldn't
prop1y what That sure nsulted
I'm having done before sayn Id brand MAYER
cks eat pie And he went to throw out hints as
burnin' Jen my amt nohin' there's
no reason man shouldn't brand beast as his owner amt
keerfu put But brand brnn is boss of another
color and the insult hit into feel in bones he up and
said things. Get up the pinto JEFF"
There visible distress the boys and he followed
the old
Paw you wait day' After
jamborce your they do that
Mr. Walker shoots like death There's he's killed and
you don't use oncet year"
Get the pinto Dexter II cayn wait day to
learn what he said to In the Amecon House last night
When opened bent his brows
on him till his almost invisible
Get the pinto Jefferson he said and JEFF out of
the snack into the burning sun as the tears rolled down MS
cheeks
There's me. n vrgnny and
Walker will kill him II they tell the rewh OF him But
mad; he's mebbe his won't shake"
He brought the pinto hitched the skewbad the
rafting old whh' the carryali for everything
Double Mountain fork when ready old Dexter
ready too
"In be back by midnight" Dexter "Gi up, thar' And
be the with the double lines
far Jen could the old turned his head after the
pinto started But the boy the prairie
down the track which Texans till he could nothing
but the brown dancing
day heat.
Like enough, said Jen "rl the old
He's stn and rheumacky and he cnyn out fast
enough for Walker wish that Walker would agh
like Ben Thompson Ben Thompson would have
him look like Mexcan's banket--more
Walker don't take that away.
poor fool killer, and paws fool"
Jen wiped and made himself coffee heat
Ing the of his dads breakfast a hard life
be led and he knew it, The world big
Heard but West Virginia the the A
prairie his world slow
how much bigger the Mississippi for his mother,
the cemetery at the city ward which the old pinto going
had come from Memphis
I'D like in old Vginny" said
mouth out of his shirt the
reckon they don't much for bore vrgnny
wonder why bankers after sheep when he
A sheep is sheer muck to a steer"
He sat by the bank OF the crick"
tunes and presently the wesered the thin
OF the mesquites stretched hours Journey the
sheep from their and started Jn whsd
Tor his monge with big
TO OF He nyeda