The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-04-05


understand. Most men would have
I resented.
81 want to stack few tons Of hay"
he went on, dlsregarding her exclama-
. ton. "I'll need II in the spring, II not
! this winter. Soon as that's done we'll
hit the high spots. Wen take three
!. or four thousand dollars, and while II
| lasts well be couple of-of high
class tramps. Huh? Does 1t sound
goodT'
She nodded vigorously.
"Perk up, then" ne wheedled.
"Bill-boy." she murmured. "you
mustn't take me zoo seriously"
81 took you for better or for worse"
he answered. with a kiss. Il don't
want 1t to turn out worse. l want you
| TO be contented and happy here. where
| I've planned to make our home. |
know you love me quite a lot little
person. Nature fitted us In a good
many ways to be mates. But you've
| gone through a pretty drastic siege OF
isolation I'm this rather grim country,
| and I guess IL doesn't seem such an
| allurlng place rs II did at first.
| don't want you to nurse that feeling
! until II becomes chronic. Then we
would be out OF tune. and II would be
| good-by happiness. But think know
| the cure for your malady."
In the morning ne began his hay
cutting About eleven o'clock he threw
down his scythe and stalked to the
| house.
"Put on your hat, and let's go inves-
tigate a mystery" said he. Il heard
a cow bawl in the woods a minute
ago. A regular barnynrd below.
| "a COW bawling?" she echoed.
"Sure7 What would cattle be doing
away up here?"
| "That's what / want TO knowf' Bill
| laughed. "Tve never seen COW north
Of Fraser-not this side Of the Rockies,
anyway"
They saddled their horses, and rode
out in the direction from whence had
arisen the bovine complaint. The
sound was not repeated, and Hazel
had begun to chaff Bill about a too
vivid Imagination when within half
mile of the clearing he pulled his horse
up short In the middle OF little
meadow.
Look I"
The track Of broad-tired wagon
had freshly crushed the thick grass.
Bill squinted ut the trail, then ms
gaze swept the timber beyond.
Somebody has been cutting timber
| h., trh
see the fresh ak work. Looks Ike
they'd been hauling poles. Let's fol-
low this track ways"
The tiny meadow was fringed on
the north by grove of poplars. Be
yond that lay another clear space OF
level land, perhaps forty acres In ex-
tent. They broke through the belt or
poplars-and pulled up again. On one
side of the meadow stood a cabin, the
fresh-peeled log walls glaring yellow
in the sun. and lifting an earth-coyered
roof to the autumn sky. Bill whistled
softly.
Along the west side of the meadow
ran brown streak of sod, and down
one side of this man guided the ham
dies of plow drawn by the strangest
yokemates Hazers eyes had seen for
many q day.
"For goodness sake!" she ex
claimed.
That's the true pioneer spirit for
you" Bill spoke absently. He has
bucked his way into the heart of a
virgin country, and he's breaking sod
with mule and cow. That's adap
tation to environment with venge-
. ance-and grit"
There's 4. woman, too, Bill. And
see-she's carrying a babyT' Hazel
? pointed excitedly. "Oh, Bill !"
, The man halted his strangely assert
: ed team to watch them come. The
e woman stood a step outside the door
g baby I'm her arms, another toddle'
= holding fast to her skirt. A thick
r bodied, short, square-shOuldered maj
was this newcomer, with a round
: pleasant face.
! Hello, neighbor !" Bill greeted.
4 The plowman lifted his old felt ha
1 courteously. His face lit up.
i "Ach!" said he. "Neighbor. Do
l. iss u goot word in diss country ver'
il dere iss no neighbor. But l am gla
e to meet you. VIII you come do de
c house und rest v'ileT"
o "Surew Bill responded. "But we'r
o neighbors, all right. Did you motto
cabin about half mile west O
!" here? That's our place-when we'r
at home.'
n "Sof The word escaped with tn
e, peculiar rising infection Of the Ter
IS ton. 81 half saw dot cabin ven v
come here. But / dink 1t vass abaI
Y. don. Veil, let us to der house g
:? Id will rest der mule-und Gretchen
ell der COW. Hail."
N He rolled a blue eye on his incol
gruous team, and grinned widely.
r "Come," he invited; ''mine wife b
er glat"
e. They found her a matron Of thlrt.
re odd; fresh-cheeked. round-faced liz
her husband. typically German, witt
he out his accent of the Tatherland. HI
nd | zel 0t once opproprio rcd tho bnhy