Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17

Troughs gulch, an slinked back,
unjck, an unobserved II it hadn't
been FER III two little gl!.s that
was Younger than Buddy I'm hettin'
even th't she'd gone after the boy
wherever he wIs. Often when we
were sottin' in the big livn' room
after supper. cositatin' on our pasts
an our futures, an teilln all We
knew about 'cm. I'd see Nissus
Howlnnd luuiiin' In tn fire as if she
saw things there: her pretty face
drawn and pale and her eyes
drcnmln' OF her boy. An like
enough Rowland would give n
glance at her. steady, an then
therc'a come tw;ngc over him as
II .sometliin' WIS catin' him. They
weren't ferGcttin' very hard, either
of EN-.
"But she WAS just as good an
sweet to the ranch boys as she'd
always bccn-an' some more So
otherwise it would have been sure
Decvish livln' and workin here. then.
Rowland never showed his trouble
as much as she did. but he rustled
as we'd never seen him rustic be-
fore, an that's goin' sonnet
when spring came an the snow
went off. Rowland took me an
Wildcat Pete. the half-brecd, up
into Seven Troughs and made an
other search. But though we went
down into every ravine along TIL
trail. clear across to tn divide. we
found no remnants. TIL coyotes
had been pretty plenty that winter.
Then the summer came an plenty
of cow-punchin an things seemed
to get along smoother
Trimpy paused to roll another Gig
arctic and Greaser Pete said discon-
tentedly:
"'Pears as If this is some like
your usual brand of stories; start
on one trail an fore ye git any
where stampede an distribute yer
self all over tn landscape!"
can brandt" retortcd Trimpy. Like
wise and also, there's various an
several sets OF harness out in TIL
horse shed that'd nowise object to
oilin' If you amt interested in this
yarn. Furthermore, there amt no
one 'ud raise any peevish objections
to Yer dom tn oiln'."
Greascr snorted furiously and
Trimpy went on:
1T was two years after that when
Cal Wesner an | got a few days
holiday before Christmas an went
over to Salt Lake City to indulge
in tn dissipations an frivoousncss
of that OF village. 'rwasn't so easy
then as 1t Is now, fer tn railroad
didn't come no nearer than Boise:
so we had 30-milc drive to start
with. Didn't use saddles cause
there was some supplies to freight
in from Boise, so we took Il wagon.
We reached Salt Lake early one
morning an proceeded immediate
an conscientious to paint tn town
not tn good OIL Cheyenne color,
but u mild little spnttcrin th't
didn't nowise attract any attention
not so you'd notice 1t. Didn't pull
gun once in the whole two days.
We saw 1t all; from the big tabcr-
nacle down to the little chile con
carne outfit on First South, where
the yellOw-hded spavn-cyed heath
en- tried to charge us as much for
q coyotes lunch as we paid AT tn
Kenyon fer Il meal int would have
lasted a two-mun sheep outfit fer a
wcek-an' then some
1T was tn stores hit us most;
some of 'em with all TIL goods they
had right In tn windcr. We stayed
outside one Of EN- for nearly an
hour an didn't see n thing taken
out: so we surmiscd that trade was
pretty dull At one winder we saw
n doll tint was dressed as plenti-
full an gorgeous rs the girls we'd
seen OH tn stage the night before
am 1t was nearly rs big. We were
sure disappointed when we couldn't
see but one of 1t. fer we wanted
two fer tn little girls at home. |
said to Cal tint maybe they had am
other inside. but he grinncd in
crcdulous. But went in ana found
u pair and bought 'cm. along with
articles which tn storekocpcr said
would make good presents.
'But it was on tho afternoon OF
the second day int we got our real
cxcitin' an ;.bsorbin' experience.
1t was on Main street, corner of
Second south. J guess. whom Cal
jabbed a fist into my ribs an
gasncd;
Look there, Trimpy!--on tn cross
trail What dyer call that
u looked an saw Santa claus
IN real, genuine. thorough bred
article, I'd seen him where was
Kid III OF Indiana, but I'd never
seen him running loose before We
went across to get closer obser-
walton, an it paid! He was wenrln'
shecrsliin chaps an rawhde boots.
same aa ! told yer, an he had
brigh. red coat with tr!mmin's an
fur cap. He was, sure, tn most
cnticing looltin creature I'd seen
since tina, bunch of Shoshone braves
started out of Cheyenne to go to
Washington ter tell tn president how
happy an contented they We're
HE stood alongside a small. red