Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-09-19

mated mysterious from her dress asi
she walked, a DIR awin' nearder AM
nearder every breath.
Gladys! Gladys!" says her lady
friend. An as Gladys slowed up, She
says, lower: II wouldn't interfere In.
|. this if l were you dear!"
1 Il must!" says Gladys. ''ft's. my
duty! can't permit dumb animals to
be treated SO without protest It is
civic cowardice not to do disagreeable
things for principle. i wish to speak
to the man in charge, please.r
KEEP minglin' with the herd, not
carin' to have disagreeable things done
to me for principle, but she cuts me
out, an says, says she. DO you know
that there's a law against cruelty to
dumb animals?"
"They amt dumb" says /, trying to
change my voice. an ofticin' up to
Reddy to shove EN- along to their fate
while held the foe in play. ''When
you've associated with these cute little
cusses as long an intermately as I
have, ma'am, you'll know that they
have language an an ellerquence all
their own, that takes 'em out of the
pervis1onS o. that law you speak OF,
an
Here's where overplays my hand,
an let's her get onto the GENUINE tones
OF my voice. OrEn't to done this, FIR
she'd heard it at close range. An to
make dead cinch out of a good gamb-
lin proposition, Il looked her in the
eyes. 1t was all Of in breath. She
give sort Of gasp as II somethin' cold
had hit her, an went petrified, sort o.
slow like.
"Oh!" says she,I turnin' her head to
her friend. Il understand now what
it was your husband was laughing
about, and his odipus jokes about fool
ing the inspectors and the bearing OF
the article he showed us In the Chi
cago paper! oh, Mr.. Driscoll, you to
be so cruel; and to impose these poor
motherless creatures upon those ig-
norant Indians, who are depending
upon their living and becoming the nu-
cleus of their pastoral industry; and
the first step to d higher civilization!
l don't wonder that you look guilty. or
try
Il don't!" says +, FIR didn't. as fer
as the stock was concerned. It's
these here eight cases Of eggs that
make me look So It's matter o.
clos. An the reds'il never raise cat
tie" says I, cor anything but trouble in
Gods world. Ami il these cavvs had
as many mothers as Mormon kid"
went on, they'd be no better fr
stew"
"Mr Driscoll," says she, don't ever
speak to me again. shall expose this
matter to the INSPECTOR"
I tried to lift my hat, but 1t stuck
to my hair; an the sight of me pullin'
desperately at my own head had some
effect on her, FIR she fees to her friend,
actin queer, but whuther laffin' r cry
in I couldn't say, an I don't s'pose
she could. It's immaterial anyway, the
main pint bein' that her friends hus.
band, a friend of the senator's, per-
suaded her from kavin' us all pinched,
when she found that Reddy'd beat her
to 1t with the caEvs, the last one OF
which was expirih' under the squawS'
hatchets as she hove in sight of the is
sue, an the soup-kittles was all a.
steamin'. 1t RELY was too late to do
anything, ! guess.
That night I slep' in Oacoma Jail.
You naturally graYitate that way when
fate has ground you about so fine. an
you begin to driftwith the blizzard. |
could "a stood the throw-down, but to
be throwed down in a heap with eggs
an dirty clo'es, was too much. took
that suit an made bundle of it, an
out on the ponto9n bridge poked It
into the Missouri with pole. They're
usin' the water tb settle coffee with,
I'm told, as fur down as Saint Joe, to
this days good as the whites OF
eggs, the cooks say. Then. havin'
wired my resignation to Elkins, feelin'
that the world held no vocation f'r mo
but the whoop-eE-up business, | re-
turned to the west side of the river as
the only place suited to my talons, an
went forth to expe u the eggs an tender
memories from my system with wet
ness. broke jati in the mornin' but
In a week come to myself agin on
the same OF cot lin the same prehis-
toric calaboose, an Mr. Elkins was
keepin' the flies of me with one o
them brushes made of a fringed news
paper tackled to stick.
'T've come" says he, ito take you
home. Aconite."
"All right" says I. "but can you fix
it up with the authorities"
I'm just going over to get your
discharge" reptile Is he. They seem
quite willing to part with you, now
that they discover that none of your
victims have anything deeper than
flesh wounds. I've given bonds not to
let you have your guns this side of the
Stanley county line. I'll be back IN
half an hour with the horses"
An here's where had a narrow es.
cape. | wouldn't have faced her, the
girl, you know, f'F no money; but as
Jim went away, right at the door
seen through a little winder shinl-