The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-06-13
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!. Up With Cowpu,4ers.
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By HORACE SLATER

NY father was Interested with n
Scotehman Of the name Of MacAlister
in ranchhg in the swest. xMasAhster
attended to the stock raising, while
my father remained, in the east maaagAr
ing the financial END. q the business.
When my, father died I was twenty
one years old. II found with his will,
leaving all bis property to me, Letter
stating that it was all in, the ranch.
He and his partner had virtually been
on6 owner, and this was all that had
saved their iavestment from bark
ruptcy. Manchester had died ten Years
before, since wheq my father had
managed the business alone for HIM
self and his partners daughter, who
was sole heir to her fathers interest.
From mya fathers death, the letter
went on to Say, was to be sole man.
ager for mysAf and this Slaughter,
Helen hacAlister, now .sysa,ss. n; ss.rs
OF age. L.. ,,,,..rss.>tsfs tsls 10 ~
am a nethodical chap ara after
reading this letter sat back ii my chair
for job Of thinking. I diA ut resfsh
any business re,a items VIA l. Ho0man.
nv father Lad >besa dealing with a
child who was now 'sit,tsrissk upon wo--
manhooa. Doubtsess my task would be
far harder than his. The result of my
thinking was a pssoaestton 70 90 West
and look over the pstperty aud espe-
cially the owner f the otter half of It.
When I reschedst Is ranca4 fpshd it
entirely in the ha4& Of men. AAsang
for Miss MacAhster, I was tod tbat
she was visiting a Eanah n4ar BY,
where there was MoRan, siase there
was no enc of her own se1.at her own
home. / was furthe6 k.fornsu that she
had livea only. a1koas. the mon on the
ranch fs6mt HE time sa,s wasShveyears
old, when her mother dled, and her
father had, the ,ndiyinsds care of her.
She. had never bssx a Ax -froah home
till this visit. :. sS s% fE 25 +
| sent to Miss MacAlts&er, a request
that she come hoihe, since II, was nee
essaY that We hswe 4 bustnsss talk
togethes. she iret,rped at once. On
the day Of her ars4tsl I>Mas sfttfng on
the vsranda OF: the ranch house, Be-
ing just-from the saat I was dressed
in eastern costume. sRiss NssAnstsf
was.robedsin eewbcY app4rsaso1 a isuas
1aine cut she rsassnp to the ksuse on
horseback, astide, bad; f1lnsing her
right leg over Easeaddae, pIasted it On
the ground; theA tahag The lst foot
from the .stirrup, she turned and came
mp the steps, ~ h&>fSS>f 4.
Suddenly she stopeed and locked me
over. from my derby lat tp"ny eheeis-
ed spats. Evidently she had nexSf
seen one got up as.I w4l petsre.
& "Are' you lft Nillhanke" she asked
Il am" I repttsA. rising and making
drawing roapi bow, q -
II did ma Seck6n was to meet a
itenderfoot;" she,. SAID. with q Scotch
accent. Her fqther snd mother had
been Scotch .hightandere. HAYS they
taken guide eare sf Rz
II think &ey have been waiting goar
arrival to dispose Of me. Men are not
Is we'll fitted as women for household
affairs"
II say" she said to several men
lounging abcut, S'what.do you mean by
leaving the gentleman whhout a room
and aumwhat to eat! Besar year-
selves and show him to the room his
father always had when he visited US!
Gang on!' r3a
Tony horror tho order was accom-
panied with volleSsof oatlas efnanat-
ing Ifomt a rosyalibla, naouth, The. mort
inappropriate Instrument IN the world
for their conveyance One Of the men
addressed sho,ahesed my trunk, (Which
had thus far BEEN lsft Oh tfis veranda,
and 6arried 1t to a room on one side
OF the hall within. followed him and
made a toilet. donning a flannel shirt
which fortunately I had brought along
as a protection from the cold. While
doing so heard Miss MaeAJister talk
ing with some cowpunchers IN the hall,
and. though her voice was musical, her
words did not differ from theirs.
There was the same cowboy nomen-
clature. the same slang and, What graf
ed most on my sensitive nesves, tho
same oaths. ~.
Now, if Miss MacAAster had been an
angular, homely, coarse visaged .wo-
man I doubt If I.Weuld have been
shocked. ] would simply 'have been
disgtlsted. As twas, while was
Jared, I Svas .fasoinated. If this pref
II 'scotch4grFs 4ses6t wasea BIZ like
a finger, or, the strings Ola mandolin,
her oaths we're the lxtters IN sweet
drink AT spy rsts they wepe unique.
It occurred IT, n1estIiat tie daughter
of ii gentleman brought up among
menE wNhSno associates Of her own
sex, swould natura14y fail into theiT
ways. OF the two clements that;ge to
make. up-the social hu1sal being, hered-
fly and cnvircnmspt. the latasp had the
field all to itself. EeEesthsless, in Miss
1facAlisters case. hersdity had not
been put out OF ps tight. for among
the slang and the.oatns vas sropptug
out Of genHIty that nuN have come
ropku Of rA6pAR,anf