The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1909-01-21

way ana gone az IL. he came pretty
close 10 looking Ike a thoroughly sat.
isfed elderly man.
Dye children know" be said. as be
passed his plate over for the third
helping. that I've been In training for
this ever since yesterday Fact I've
hardly eaten a mouthfui since you IN
vited me-or. better. since I invited
myself And it's worth the fasting"
After the dinner the old boy nxed
himself IN a big rattan chair IN the
tiny coy corner near a window and
got a well seasoned briar pipe belong
Ing TO his young host agolng.
"A cigar after shoulder and greens :"
he exclaimed. reprovingiy. when the
young man offered him cigar.
Mighty tidy place you've got here he
said. after a pause. waving his pipe
around "Slick as a crick ell. I'd call
H. Plumb luxurious. In fact" and a
sort OF misty light OF recollection ap-
peared In the gray old eyes Of the man.
Il suppose Mary and wouldn't have
looked upon this as a sort Of heaven
away back yonder IN the tangie OF
years when we were struggling along
the best way We knew how"
The young matron had been picking
out soft little chords on the plano. but
she crossed over and sat down by her
husband u
Didn't have any such things ~ cory
corners when Mary and I made cur
start at housekeeping" the old boy
went on. crossing his legs and leaning
hack and pufiing away AZ his pipe. -Not
many scrumtiferous axin's Of any kind.
for the matter OF that
Fact Is. II was a shack. And. on too
Of that. a one-room shack. Built u
nyreif after working hours. Cut the
Grub spruce and ar to build IL. too.
II was n timberman then In a new ,
liver mine sixty miles from railroad
3ot SIS a week. which wasn't much.
bunting how costly II was to live.
well. after got the shack built
vent down. 10 Boise and asked Mary
ne was teaching school there Mary
Vas agreeable about it-we'd been
eaus since we'd met a year before. al.
hough after ! went TO work In the
ew mine didn't have much chance 10 .
- her.
But Mary was ready. and we got !,
,arried in Boise City. and took her
, the shack I'd built Marvellous days.
hose-both OF US young. you see. and
OF bothering much about anything nor !,
finding any sort Of Inconvenience. 90
ing a. we were close enough 70 each
Their SOS I could boiler across the !.
uIch on my way to work and on my Il"
ay home. And II was n home. plumb
nd proper--never had any such home =
nee.
II made the stove myself. too. out OF =
D old rusty two-horse-power boiler :,
lat cribbed from the engine house. :,
ade most Of the furniture. too. includ. =
q the bed. spare times. Wagon -
Fighting WIS costly. and beds and
ar like that ready made. cost a heap =
money out there those days-any. y
Nv. they were beyond me.
"Had rag carpet on the floor Of the =
ack that Mary'd been making herself, "
ter school hours. for a year Dishes
ere mostly WOODEN was pretty "
indy with a jackknife those DAYS. ~
nd calico curtains in the one window -
Mary had an artistic eye. and the -
~ she draped those curtains sure was ~
netting dainty. ~
Il got the water from the crick. =
out 400 yards back OF the shack
'ed to fill up the three big barrels
&c a week, and let the water settle.
Didn't have any fresh meat unless ~
shot It O sundays--frelghter used
fetch IN the salt meat once a week. On
sr the trail. Canned vegetables. too. ye
scandaIously high they were.
'1'G started a truck patch. but the =.
J wasn't adapted to truck raising
right for flowers. though. Mary
hold Of some flower seeds sub Of