Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-07-10
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Soon the hound reached the cove's
edge and swan the river and ranged
up and down the bank for half an
hour before he found the bucks trail
again.
i've seen many a rascal, driven to
water by the hounds, go swimming
away as slyly as that buck, with their
horns in the air, looking as innocent
as a bit of driftwood. They come in
from both shores-the Wing and the
Democratic-and they are always shot
at from one bank or the other"
I remember it surprised me a little
to hear him say that they came in
from both shores.
"Just what do you want to do?" he
asked presently.
II should like to go down to Wash
ington with you and help you in any
way that I can"
"All right, partner-we'll try It," he
answered gravely. II hope that I don't
forget and work you as hard as I work
myself. 1t wouldn't be decent. I have
q great many letters to write. I'll try
thinking out loud while you take them
down in sound-hand. Then you can
draft them neatly and I'll sign them.
You have tact and good manners and
can do many Of my errands for me and
save me from those who have no good
reason for taking up my time"
"You will meet the best people and
the worst. There's just a chance that
it may come to something worth while
who knows? You are young yet. 1t
will be good training and you will wit
ness the making of some history now
and then"
What elation I felt!
Again the voice Of the hound, which
had been ringing in the distant hills,
was coming nearer.
"We must keep watch-another deer
is coming" said the senator.
We had only a moments watch be-
fore a fine yearling buck came down
to the opposite shore and stood look
ing across the river. The senator
raised his rifle and fired. The buck
fell in the edge of the water.
GLOW shall we get him?" my friend
asked.
1T will not be difficult" I answered
as I began to undress. Nothing was
difficult those days.
I swan the river and towed the
buck across with a beech withe in his
gambrel joints. The hound Joined me
before l was half across with my bur-
den and nosed the carcass and swan
on ahead yelping with delight.
We dressed the deer and then
had the great joy of carrying him
on my back two miles across the coun-
try to the wagon. The senator wished
to. send a guide for the deer, but I in
sisted that the carrying was my priv
lege.
"Well, I guess your big thighs and
broad shoulders can stand it," said he,
"My uncle has always said that no
man could be called a hunter until he
can go into the woods without a guide
and kill a deer and bring it out on
his back. I want to be able to testify
that I am at least partly qualified
"Your uncle didn't say anything
about fetching the deer across a deep
river without a boat, did he?" Mr.,
Wright asked me with a smile.
Leaves of the beeches, naples and
Observation-Disclosures by frost-hung
like tiny lanterns, glowing with noon
day light, above the dim forest aisle
which we travelled.
The sun was down when we got tc
the clearing.
what a day it has been" said Mr.
Wright when we were seated in the
wagon.
zone of the best in my licc," I an.
swered with a joy in my heart the like
of which I have rarely known in these
many years that have come to me.
We rode on in silence with the calls
of the swamp robin and the hermit
thrush ringing in our ears as the night
fell.
tits q good time to think, and there
we take different roads," said my
friend. "you will turn into the future
and 1 irto the rast."
"T've been thinking about your
uncle" he said by and by. "He is one
of the greatest men I have ever known.
You knew of that foolish gossip about
him-didn't you?"
EYES," 1 answered.
"Well, noW,, he's gone about his bust
ness the same as ever and showed by
his life that it couldn't be true. Not a
word out of him! But Dave Ramsey
fell sick-down on the flat last winter.
BY and by his children were crying for
bread and the %poormaster was going
to take charge Of them. Well, who
should turn up there, just in the nick
Of time, but Della and Peabody
Baynes. They fed those children all
winter and kept them in clothes so
that they could so to school. The
strange thing about 1t Is this: 1t was
Dave Ramsey who really started that
story. He got uD In church the other