Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-09-23

quantity Of canned fruit l had eaten,
and got back at her fatfooted about
how a certain lady named Eve started
the fruit trouble Jig the first free grass
pasture.
'"rhat was how ! acquired cordiali-
ty for the proximities Of Miss Willella
Learight, and the disposition grew
larger as time passed. She was stop
ping at Pimienta Crossing for her
health, which was very good. and for
the climate. which was 10 per cent
hotter than Palestine. rode over to
see her once every week for awhile.
and then figured it out that IL dou-
bled the number Of trips would see
her twice as often.
zone week slipped in a third trip.
and that's where the pancakes and the
game.
'That evening while set on the
counter with a peach and two dam
sons in my mouth I asked Uncle Ems
ley how Miss Willella was.
"'Why,' says Uncle Emsley, she's
gone riding with Jackson Bird. the
sheep man from over at Mired Mule
Canada
Il swallowed the peach seed and the
two damson seeds. guess somebody
held the counter by the bride while
got off, and then walked out straight
ahead till ! butted against the mes
quite where my roam was tied.
"'She's gone riding whispered in
my bronc's ear, with Birthstone Jack,
the hired mule from Sheep Mans Can
ada. Did you get that, old Leather
and Gallops:
''That bronc Of mine wept in his
way He'd been raised COW pony.
and he didn't care for snoozers.
81 went back and said to Uncle Ems
ley, Did you say sheep man?'
"'I said sheep man. says uncle
again. You must have heard tell Of
Jackson Bird. He's got eight sections
Of grazing and 1000 head Of the finest
Mernos south Of the arctic circle
81 went out and sat on the ground in
the shade Of the store and leaned
against prickly pear I sifted sand
into my boots with unthinking hands
while soliloquiZcd Il quantity about
this bird With the jackson plumage
to his name
81 never had believed in harming
sheep man. see one one day reading
Latin grammar on hossback. and |
never touched him. They never irri-
tatcl me like they do most COW men.
\r.1 Il nd 1nt
'em live here was one going around
riding with Miss Willella Icaright!
IAN hour by sun they come Looping
back and stopped at Uncle Emsley's
gate. The sheep person helped her off
and they stood throwing each Other
sentences all sprightfuI and sagacious
for awhile. And then this feathered
jackson flies up in his saddle and
} raises his little stewpot of hat and
trots off in the direction of his NUT
ton ranch. by this time l had turn
ed the sand out of my boots and un
pinned myself from the prickly pear
and by the time he gets half mile
out Of limienta singlefoots up be
side him OH my bronc.
II said that snOOZer was pink eyed
but he wasn't. His seeing arrange
ment was gray enough. but his eye
Iashes was pink and his hair was san
dy. and that gave you the idea. Sheer
man? He wasn't more than LIANT
man. anyhow-a little thing with bis
neck involved in a yellow silk hand
kerchief and shoes tied up in bowknots
Afternoon" says to him. 'Y0r
now ride with an equestrian who /:
commonly called Dcad-Moral Certain
ty Judson. on account of the way
; shoot. When want stranger t.
} know me l always introduce myself
before the draw. for l never did likt
. to shake hands with ghosts
"'Ah.' says he. just like tllat-'ah
I'm glad to know you. Mr.. Judson
, I'm Jackson Bird from over at NIiret
Mule ranch. 1t looks like rain.'
"'Willie.' says l. riding over close Il
, his palfrey, your infatuated parents
, may have denounced you by the nam,
, Of Jackson. but you sure molted int
t twittering Willie. Let us slough of
this here analysis of rain and tn,
: elements and get down to talk tina
l is outside the vocabulary Of parrots
, That is bad habit you have got o
l riding with young ladies over at Pimi
!, enta. I've known BIRDS says l, tt
!, be served on toast for less than that
: Miss Willella, says !. don't eve
! want any nest made out of sheep
> wool by tomtit of the Jacksonial
e branch of ORTHODOXY. Now. are 20,
: going to quit, or do you wish for t
D gallop up against this Dead-M Moral
! Certainty attachment to my name
3 which is good for two hyphens and a
least one set of funeral obsequies?
Jackson Bird flushed up some. ant
: then he laughed.
i "'Why. Mr.. Judson.' says he. You've
: got the wrong idea. I've called OF
: Miss Learight few times, but not 70
the purpose you imagine. My objec