The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-08-07
YOU DON'T
NEED A WOMAN


station was the excusable one OF
loneliness. We have been together
pretty much all the time, cay and
night, when the Office could spare me
and habit grows insistent even with
old men.
But | conquered the weakness waf-
ted after her the wish that her jour
ney might be safe and her visit pleas
ant, and then sternly turned to the
rational and the practical things Of
life. There was the car, and l had
to go to the farm. Forty miles all
alone in Buick roadster isn't the
worst fate than can befall one, and
| | started. got there at supper time
and the boys gave me some bread
and tea and berries. They made me
h bed in the tent and l lay there
| listening to the wind, and watching
| the diffused glow of the full moon
which shone in the south and was
visible even through the tent. The
dog came in and promised to keep
me compatny, but thought better of
it, and ambled away. The bed was
not hard, and the night was not cold,
but Old Man Sleep would not come
to me; so I tried to count sheep go
ing over gate, tried to calculate
how much the barley would yield,
tried to compute the profits on five
years of dry farming. And so lost
myself about midnight.
But when / walked up the watch
marked two o'clock and there was
no more sleep in the tent. SO at
three slipped out cranked up quiet.
ly, and drove home.
That was new experience. A
coyote got into the road right ahead
OF me where the wall OF sage ran TO
the right and to the left CT him, and
raced along for half a mile, looking
back over his shoulder from time to
time with a grin, and finally vanish
ing as completely and as unexpected
ly as If he had been only shadow
animal, and wholly unreal. There
were grasshoppers that rose at the
nose of the car, their wings spread
till they looked like birds. And
there were flying things bigger than
hoppers. wonder if they were bats.
One place rabbit sat at the side
of the road and as the car came along
side he whacked the ground with his
hind foot, bidding defiance to all cars
and the works of man. But he did
not run. Once four rabbits appear
ed in the edge of the sage. They
didn't understand the lights and they
separated and ran in four different
ways without one of them getting
under the wheels.
Away down in the white road, this
side of Tooele | overlook young
man in buggy. He had two girls
with him at that time in the morn
ing-the darned monopolist, and
was alone. But you don: need
woman.
Did you ever come around the point
of the Oquirrh hills very early in the
morning? Then you certainly stop
ped and watched the sunrise; watch
ed the swiftly changing blues and
greens-yes, and reds--of the lake;
watched the wonderful cloud effects
in the sky and looked over this magi-
cal valley to the Wasatch battlement
and blessed the Lord 1t held your
home.
The house smelled just q bit musty
when let myself in. But there was
plenty of stuff in the ice box, and /
had some eggs scrambled to turn
and cup of coffee, some bread and
butter and a plate of the finest cher
ries. And l cleared away and wash
ed the dishes when the feast was I'm
ished, Yon don't need woman. The
farm trip always gets me dusty and
| | like bath, so l turned the water
in the tub and found the towels and
looked over the machine for need OF
grease or oil. and then went down
town and worked like Turk all day.
ate lunch at a cafeteria, for they
have things nice, and they did not
cost much, and went home at six,
and I'll be darned II that oath tub
hadn't run over. The place was
flooded and the basement was a lake.
But either / left the gas burning
under that coffee or some one came
in and lighted it, and 1t nad burned
up the coffee an melted the pot, and
the metre WAS chasing its tail like a
cat in conniption time.
But you don't need a woman for
anything.
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