The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-01

umphs. and did a painful single foot.
marklng time with his peg. the cow
boys. who had stood their own share
of his bullying. laughed. Shockley
didn Z laugh; he only stood with busy
eyes where he could cover any man
on demand, not forgetting even Pat
Barlie
Peg Leg. who had danced so many
IN his DAY. danced, and his roasting
gan sputtered an accompaniment from
the stove; but as Shockley. who stood
in front Of it. paid no attention to the
fusillade Of bullets. good form prevent.
ed others from lodging THAT II do:
get down. Come here Chris, called
Shockley. Chris Oxen, greatly dis
turbed, issued from an obscure cor
ner.
Sect down on your knees, ex-
claimed the yardmaster, jerking Rey
nolds with a chilly twist in front of
the frightened Russian "Get on your
knees: right where I threw vour
whisky ard Shockley. crowding Rey-
nolds down TO his humiliation, dropped
for the first time into range civilities
himself. and the shame and the abase-
ment Of il all were very great.
Bows, said the yardmaster. with
one restless eye on Reynolds and one
on everybody else. a he pointed at
Chris. ''tbis man S coat was burnt
up. He's a poor devil, and his money
comes hard. Chip in for a new coat
I've nothing against any man that
don Z want TO give, but Reynolds must
pass the hat. Take mine, you coy
ote.''
Nearly everybody contributed as
Reynolds went round. Shockley made
no comments. Count it. - he com
manded, when the fallen monarch had
finished; and when the tale was made,
Shockley told Pat Barlie to put in as
much moro as the cap held, and he
did go.
"There; Chris; 20 home. I don t
like you," added Shoeklev insoIently,
know what fun is. This town won t
hold YOU and ME after tonight You
can take it or you can leave it, but
the first time | ever put eyes on YOU
again one of us will cash in
He backed directly towards the front
door and out. Peg Leg Reynolds took
only the night to decide; next day he
hit the trail The nervy yardmaster
ne might have wiped out if he had
stayed, but the disgrace of kueeling
before the dog Of Russian was some
annals Of Benkleton. Peg Leg moved
on; and thereafter cowboys took oc-
casion TO stop Shockley on the street
and jolly him on the way he did the
one~legged bully, and tho lights were
shot no more.
The railroad men swore by the new
yardmaster; the Russians took their
cigarettes from their mouths and
touched their caps when Shockley
passed; Callahan blessed his name;
but little Chris worshipped him.
1a,r
at Benkleton from Omaha headquar-
ters. Alfabet was the only species of
lizard on the payroll he was the West
End spotter, "Who is that ,slim fell
lowf'' he asked of Callahan as Shock
ley flew by on the pilot board of an
engine.
fOh, that IS Shockley. is it7"
But he could say little things in
way to make man prick hot all
over
eyes, that's Shockley. Why7"
asked Callahan with dash of acid.
"Nothing. only he Is a valuable man;
he IS wanted, Shockley is smiled AL
fabet Smith, but his smile would freeze
tears.
Callahan took it up short. tLook
here, Alfabet Keep off Shockley. ."
"Whyyi Why Because YOU and I will
touch, head on, if you don u. y
Smith said nothing; he was used
TO that sort. The next time Bucks
was up, his assistant told him of the
incident.
i1If he bothers shockley,' Bucks
said, Gwen get his scalp, that's all
He'd better look after mis- conductors
and leave our men alone
'"I notice Shockley ism t keeping his
frogs blocked" continued Bucks, re-
verting to other matters. "That won T
do. / want every frog in the yard
blocked and kept blocked, aud tell him
him I said so.
But the frog. blocking was not what
worried Shockley; his push was to
keep the yard clean, for the month
of December brought more stuff twice
over than was ever poured into the
front. end yard before. Chris, though,
had developed into a great switchman
and the two never let the work get
ahead
So it came that little Russia hon
ored Chris and his big pay-cbeck above
most men. Shockley stood first in
little Russia then the czar. then Chris,
then Callahan. Queen Victoria aud
Bismarck might have admirers;. but
they were not in it under the bench.
When the Russian holidays came,
down below, Chris concluded that the
celebration would be merely hollow
without Shockley; for was not the very
existence of little Russia due to him9
"WelI, what s the racket anyhow,
Christi demanded Shockley laZily. af |
ter Cross Eyes had sputtered switch
English five minutes at him trying TO
get rid OF the invitation to the fes
tivities.
"Ve got Chrismus by us, explained |
Chris desperately.
"Christmas. repeated Shoclsley |
grimly christmas. Why, man, |
Christmas DOM come nowhere on earth |
in January. You want to wind up |
your calendar. Where d YOU get them
shoes?''
"Dollar sefenty-vife.
"Where7'
"Rubedo,
"And don t YOU know a switchmau
oughtn Z / put his feet in fat boats |
Don you know some day YOU II get
your feet stuck in q tongue or
ward Then where II YOU be- Dutch