The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-10-05

er, pointing to large animal graz
ing near the roadside. "That there.
a COW, replied his companion good
naturally. whats them things OF
his head ?" "Them shorns. Didn't
you know cows got horns?" This
amounted almost to rebuff; but af-
ter a moment the little fellow asked
timidly, "But how does he blow em %
4 4 4
There are men," remarked Old Bill
Misgivens, "who never demonstrate
that they are any earthly account till
they are dead. There was Sim Dill
worth for instance. Sim was too lazy
to wash himself or to spit He just
let the saliva dribble out of his mouth
and run down over his shirt front.
Some how or other Sim induced a
right good sort of woman to marry
him. It's really remarkable how
working women to marry them and
take care of them. Well, after the
marriage Sim just settled down To
the steady job of letting his wife
earn the living for them both. He
wouldn't even carry the water to
fill the tub when his wife was wash
ing. The woman stood for that sort
of thing with remarkable patience, |
should say, but as the years went by
her temper did get trife on edge,
especially as Sim got to looking worse
and worse. When he was "a young
Teller he wasn't so bad to look at, be-
ing large and broad shouldtred and
with a good color in his face. l have
thought that Maria, his wife, maybe
got sort of stuck on his shape and it
may be that she had a notion that
after she got him she could put some
pep and ambition into him. That was
where she was fooled. AS Sim got |
older he let his whiskers grow all
over his face, too lazy to trim them,
and then he chewed tobacco and slob-
bered over himself and got to looking
more and more disreputable and no
account from year to year. So finally
Maria did get some out of patience
with him and used to land on him
and give him a piece of
her mind. However, it didn't seem
% have much effect on Sim. When
he fire would get little too hot
lie would take his fishing pole and
inc and mosey off to the creek and
ut on the bank till he thought the
storm was over. Sim would have
made bully fisherman if he hadn't
,een so tarnal lazy that he hated
o dig for bait. He had all the pa
fence necessary for a fisherman. He
would sit for hours on the bank
md let the fish come and hunt up
lis hook. One day Sim went off to
he creek to fish as usual. There
vas log reaching out over a deep
'ole and Sim got out on the log
nd sat down. 1t was cool and shady
here and Sim evidently fell asleep
faria had made him take off the
My shirt he had so that she could
,ash it, and to keep the sun from
urning his back he had put on blue
rilling coat with big pockets in the
ides. Well, as | said, he must have
allen asleep and fell off the log into
ne water. Sim had been too lazy
D learn to swim when he was
oy and so when he fell into the
ater he drowned. Maria didn't think
othing of it because he was away
.om the house for five or six hours,
icing that she had given him pref
, fair tongue flashing that morning
hen he didn't carry no water for
he wash tub, but when he didn't
,me to supper she concluded thai
aybe she had better start hunt
,r him. So she called a neighbor
help her and they started out to
ok for him. They found his fish
Die floating on the water near the
,ep hole and the neighbor dragged
lie hole to see if he was in there
lre enough thy found him. He was
lerable dead when they took him
thing. He had put the
lit in his coat pockets and they
und that four good sized bass had
IT into one pocket and three four
,und suckers had got into the other.
was fine catch and there was
enty to make two or three good
calls for the widow and her three
ildren. The neighbor examined
m for any possible sign of life, but
uldn't find any Sin. is sure dead,
, remarked to the widow. What
ID we better do Well. said the
idow, seeing that this is the first
me in the 10 years we have been
arried that he has ever done any
ing to help supply the table. don't
~ think it would be good idea to
t him AGAIN."