The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-08-08


| He is also the pro-
prietor of Jersey cow
and a gasoline goodwill. 1t was the
latter l was aiming for, bit, as 1t was
darker than a stack OF negro coal
beavers at midnight, l mingled with
the COW. As soon as discovered her
proximity l made grab for 1t, but
was thrown lightly across several
stalls into far corner OF the barn.
At this point, however, the rank odor
of gasoline in terribly rundown con-
dition of health smote upon me.
reached out my hand tenderly and
patted the goodwill on the brow.
At about this time OF night Kidder's
back door opened. allowing flood OF
light to pour forth. In the doorway
was silhouetted the figure OF man
hurriedly getting outside Of a huge
bowl of breakfast food. He was &C
countred in all the habiliments OF
war. Finally, with last despairing
glance into the bowl he cast 1t from
him and seized q steaming tea-kettle
from the stove.
With this he came forth and by tho
nickering light Of a weakened Ian
tern he cautiously poured the hot wa
ter up and down the go-devils spinal
column. Having done this, he seized
the persuader, gave 1t a villainous
twist and the thing commenced vio-
lent. hacking cough that caused great
chunks Of sympathy to we'll up under
my sweater.
After turning on the binacle lights.
Kidder grasped the handle-bars and
We backed out till we hit the chicken
park across the alley. BY some dex-
ferrous manoeuvring we got the thing
pointed right and cut her loose.
It was early. No one was abroad.
The family cats we're all peacefully
curled up In the bread pan. Only a
few weary citizens were up taking a
look at the meter to see II 1t had slid
any in the night. We hummed along
merrily-rolled up in our big fur coats
getting quite wideawake by the time
We had covered couple OF miles.
Suddenly a surprised rabbit sat up
a couple of times and made brilliant
leap for the tall timber. l promptly
took my cue and got my artillery In
trim. Rabbit after rabbit appeared
! My ammunition wavered and ran low
: No sankuinary results were noticed
although l am positive succeeded In
winging the left fender several times
1t must be borne in mind. however
that my poor shooting was the natural
l result Of poor ammunition, cheap gun
worry and insomnia, from which was
suffering so bad that 1t kept me awake
nights.
} Daylight was Just cracking in The
l east when we pulled briskly into {
4 farmyard and anchored in front of {
badly irritated dog Of the hound va
riety The farmer was out in the Gov
l barn husking the milk crop. He came
q out and told us that between sever
!. and nine thousand ducks had gon,
over the evening before and, judging
from their looks, they had date will
j. a cornfleld about two miles to the sou
II by-sou'west. He informed us that tn
: ducks exhibited marked partialit
for the cornf1elds which had been or
Grated on by husking machines ir
= stead of the old-fashioned Armstron
:. method used by our forefathers. H
said this fact. combined with the Ion
dry season and the Iowa habit c
planting game warden on every altel
nate section OF land. was working mi
y acles for the ducks and chickens.
'" In bashful maner he told us this
- II we felt equal to shooting twenty c
" thirty prairie chickens as mere star
er we could find them down in tn
u cornfleld at the right of the hoghous
u He said the chickens we're getting 6
70 tame that some Of them had the nerv
- to sneak in and board with the famil
poultry.
We looked at our license from tt
Is state and saw that the prairie he
II could not be legally shot In such chill
n weather. With sigh, we thereupc
d. loaded our guns and started for Il
cornfeld.
We curried and cross-curried that fie
ID thoroughly and finally strolled out on
ut forty-acre field of fresh blowing
ne rest our legs. We had not gone Il
a when something about the looks a,
si9e Of clean white tablecloth aro
in front Of Kidder and started sou
~ at beautiful clip. 1t was a jack ra
al bit. Neither of us shot, and Kidd
CO mumbled something about thinking
ey was a sheep.
BY this time daylight had becon
entirely broken In the east, and '
RS could see how nervous each other We
IA After Cr0RRin1 the nlowinu MO atonp