The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-21

ioughton Mifain Co.
 on a stove in Death valley at F o'clock Sunday noon. We beat 1t for the next town afoot Collie commenced to give out. He was pretty tender and not strong. I lugged him some, and he walked some. He was talktn' of green grass and cucumbers in the icebox and fec cream and home and the Maumee river and whole lot of things you can't find in the deeert. Wall, got him to his feet next mornin'. We had some trouble and was detained spell in Baxstow after that. They couldn't prove notadn'. % they let us 60. Then Collie g0t to talktn' again about a Cal ifornia road that wiggled up hill and through . canyon and had one of these heee ole mission bells where it lit otf for tho ely ranch. Funny, for he was never in California then. Mebby it was tho old postcard he got at Albu- querQue; You zee, his ipa bought 1t for him 'cause he wanted it. He Vas
 only kid then. Collie. he says it's the only thing his pc ever did buy for him. and % hs ksrt 1t .td-l 1t was about wore out from looh1n' 1t 1t. But con- siderin' how his pa acted, guess that vas about an Collie needed to remem- Der hin by. Anyhow, he dreamed of that road end told me sO much about :, 1t that I got to lpokm' for it too. moved of the cd Dl C1mino Real and the hells, 70 ws kspt our eye peeled for that particular dram road, kind of for fun. We fnund her yesterday" :"
 What, thisf The road to our ranchr'
 @uhuh. CoIns. hssa3nso the minute wv rot ii that canyon, Neonstone ! canyon. you sa1d- We're restin' up and
 en5oyfn' tho sceneky. We need the
 rsst,, for oaly last week we resigned
 from doin, . stunt 1n a movin' picture outnt. They wanted somebody to Do native soos. Wa said ws didn't have them lind of cIcthes, but the foreman Of the outnt says we'd do nne jes as we was. It was nsrce-and. believe me. 1ady. I been thruugh some! been through somei
 'aIhoy was two others tn checker eloths and aip nd caps, and they Nasn,t. native sous. Thay acted like cons of-rd hefo to tn you'wi1at, Miss
 - to the ch3ef dnlhe in tho show.
 They stole her bean and tied him to
 the s. P. txacks- Kind of loose, though.
 She didn't seam b cass. She jest
 stood around chew1n' gum and rol- I'm her lamps at tho head guy. Then
 tho movin' picture expeess, which was
 . Set1rsd switch engine hooked on to
 . 9weds shsefvat1on car. backs down
 en Adolphus. and ws was to rush up
 hkepretty fast, and save his life.
 --6hs wns sasgy lttls chicken with
 blond feathers and . three-Quarter rig
 skirt. Shs had . regular strawberry jce cream soda complexion, and her eyes looksd Ike | couple of glass al leys with elsctris ushts in lem. won dered if she took 'em out at night to 90 to sleep or only switched of the current. Anyhow, up she rides in a big reddish kind of automobile And twists her hands around her wrists and looks up the track and down the track and.sees us and soys: oh, w'ich | way has he went9 Witch way did | Disgustus Adolphus beat 1t tor And chewin' gum right on top of that too. It was tough on us, miss, but we need a the money.
 Bout eighteenth timo she comes coughin' up in that old one lung ma | chine--te get her oppression right, so the boss kept hollerin'- gets siek and tired. If there's anything do in' why, I'm game, but such monkey. ] h'! There was that picture machine ! Idiot wOg1kin' the crank as if h8 was shellin' thicket full Of Injuns with a | Gatlins and his fool cap turned round with the HA down the back of his neck, and mo and Collie, the only sensible actin ones of.ths lot, because wo was ! actin natural jest restn'. I got sick l and tired. The next time up coughs l that cr1ppoed ID automobile with the | humps on ity front tire, anduhe says Where, oh, whers has he wentY ] ups and says, 'Craxy, mfss, and can l you blame himr
 "She didn't see no joke in that, 70 the boss he fired us. He wasn't soin' tc l pay us at that, but picks up the little picture machine box and swings hel up over the track kind of suggestive nke. 'Oner said I. Do we get oul {, mnsyf
 .'Drop that- nachinsr says be, rush fn up to me.
 "'I'm a-goin' to- says I, good and 1 hard. Think again while count. Dc we get our money?
 ".xou get rtnchsdr says he. ssTwoy says I, and swings the boa ID by the legs
 | .sHoao onr yells the boss. Pay the l mutt, Jimmy, and Tor Cord sake, gel that machine before he ruins the best
 reel we made yetr
 "ws got paid"
 l "But the bell and Moonstone can | yon ?s' questioned Louise, glancinE back l at Boyar, grasing down the meadow. "sure! Well we nopped near her,
 that night"
 "E1oppedw
 "Uhuh. Let's see. You ain't hep tt
 that, are you? Why, we crawled tc |