Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-03-17

N5D shars outer office.
And because the courthouse was al
aost deserted at that hour, and be-
ause Buck would sometimes relate
D me things that were out Of print,
followed him into talk through
knowledge of a weakness he had.
FOR cigarettes rolled with sweet corn
tusk were as honey to Bucks palate;
md though he could finger the trigger
4 a forty-f1ve with skill and sudden
less, he never could learn to roll
cigarette.
1t was through no fault of mine
FOR I rolled the cigarettes tight and
nooth), but the upshot of some whim
Il his own, that instead of to an
odyssey Of the chaparral, I listened to
"a dissertation upon matrimony!
This from Buck Caperton! But l
maintain that the cigarettes were i'm
Ieccable; and crave absolution for
myself.
I'VE just brought in Jim and Bud
Cranberry" said Buck. Train rob
bing, you know Held up the Aran-
las Pass last month We caught 'em
n the Twenty Mile pear fiat, south
If the Neuces."
Have much trouble corraling
Shem?" l asked, for here was the
neat that my hunger for epics
srayed.
Some said Buck; and then, dur
ing a little pause, his thoughts STAN
peded off the trail. It's kind of
queer about women" he went on;
'and the place they're supposed to
occupy in botany. II | was asked to
classify them I'd say they was hui
man loco weed. Ever see bronc that
had been chewing loco? Ride him up
10 a puddle of water two feet wide,
and he'll give a snort and fall back
on you 1t looks as big as the Mis-
sissippi river to him. Next trip he'd
walk into a canyon a thousand feet
deep thinking 1t was a prairie dog
hole Same way with married man.
az was thinking Of Perry Rountree,
that used to be my sidekicker before
he committed matrimony. In them
days me and Perry hated indisturb-
anCes of any kind. We roamed around
considerable, stirring up the echoes
and making EN- attend to business.
Why when me and Perry wanted to
have some fun in town it was a
picnic for the census takers. They
Just counted the marshaps posse that
it took to subdue us, and there was
your population. But then there
came along this Mariana Goodnight
girl and looked at Perry sideways,
and he was all bridle-wise and saddle
broke before you could skin a year
ling.
81 wasn't even asked to the we'd
ding / reckon the bride had my
pedigree and the front elevation of my
habits all mapped out, and she de-
cided that Perry would trot better in
double harness without any uncon-
verified mustang like Buck Caperton
whickering around on the matrimonial
range So it was six months before
/ saw Perry again.
"One day | was passing on the
edge of town, and / see something
like a man in a little yard by little
house with sprinkling pot squirting
water on a rose bush. Seemed to me
I'd seen something like it before, and
I stopped at the gate, trying to figure
out it's brands. Twas not Perry
Rountree, but twas the kind of a
curdled jellyf1sh matrimony had made
out of him.
Homicide was what that Mariana
had perpetrated. He was looking Well
enough, but he had on white collar
and shoes, and you could tell in a min
ute that he'd speak polite and pay
taxes and stick his little finger out
while drinking, just fike sheep man
or citizen. Great skyrockets! but
hated to see Perry all corrupted and
Willie-ized like that.
He came out to the gate, and shook
hands; and | says, with scorn, and
speaking like paroquet with the pip:
Beg pardon-Mr. Rountree, believe.
seems to me l sagatiated in your as
sociations once, If l am not mista-
ken
"'Oh. go to the devil, Buck says
Perry, polite, as I was afraid he'd be.
We'll, then says l, you poor, con-
taminated adjunct of a sprinkling pot
and degraded household pet, what did
you go and do 1t for? Look at you, all
decent and unriotous, and only fit to
sit Oh juries and meL- the woodhouse
door You was a man once. I have
hostility for all such acts. Why don't
you go in the house and count the
tides or set the clock, and not stand
out here in the atmosphere? A jack
RABBIT might come along and bite
you
Now Buck says Perry, speaking
mild and some sorrowful, you don't
understand. A married man has got
to be different He feels different
from a tough old cloudburst like you.
It's sinful to waste time pulling up
towns Just to look at their roots, and