Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-01-09

BUD
and puts the lamb in sort O. corral
dap O. the tent and lets him go in.
side. It's bare an neat. but it's got
q lot O. little hxings like a girl al
ways hangs onto, and over to one
side. on cot, is her brother: 1t don't
much longer for this world. But the
girl don't seem to know it. She puts
her hand against his face and says:
&c sVoU'RE lookin' lots better. dear.
L And I hope you hada good
Sleep He tries to smile back with
his lips. which is dry and kind of
twisted, and says,
"a fine sleep. Sis. an feel grand
81 brought one of our neighbors
t, see YOU she says. This is Mister
"'Sepulvida.' says Sam, comm for
ward. Sam Sepulvida, an glad t
"I'm Alice North. she tells him.
but NOBODY calls f him na ansth h,ena but
just Bud Mr.. Sans been helpin'
me- she goes on to explain to her
brother. He's been real KIND an
helpful. just like Mr.. Beth said
everybodyd be. I'll be able to handle
things all right until you're up and
around again
The poor chap looks up and smiles
at Sam and in a minute Sam sees that
ne amt under any delusions about
himself. but he only says.
sure. Miss Alice, We'll help you
out until your brothers around again,
ana that won't be long-ths air up
herelH hx him up fine Bud looks
real grateful an Sam sees a sort o.
wink in his eye that tells him he
appreciates the lie. So ne goes out
sort OF screen of oak boughs on the
north side O. the tent to shield 1t
from the wind. an shows the girl how
70 make water cooler out of an old
canvas bucket. And she pats his
morse and makes lot over it, like
women will.
1T isn't until he's goin' home that
night, feelin' in his pocket ever so often
TO make sure that something he put
IN 1t Is still there, that he remembers
ne went into Purissima Flats to ex-
inmate SMOKERS. But he don't play
long with the thought. Just reaches
into his pocket and hauls out a little
Wnlte handkerchief that ALLEGED tied
round place he cut in his hand, an
looks at 1t with an idiotic grin.
something happens to him. Once I |
was shut up In cabin, showed in,
an not havin' anythin' better t. do
reads article by one of these
scfent fic Johnnies on heredity. He
says that nobody is themselves. They |
Ihey're made up o. little job lots an |
sample bits o all their ancestors.
wen, with Sam it was that same
way. All these years bed been his
mas boy. smart. quick and hard as |
mans, but meetin' up with that Alice |
Girl had done somethin' to him, an |
whole new side o. him rose t. tn
top an that side was his pa all over.
When he gets home he takes a guitar
on a shelf where it had been lynn |
all covered with dust, an he sits out
under the roses by the side of the
house and sings all tn songs he'd
learned from old Pedro Sepulvida
An every mornfn' g soon as he'd set
tied things at tn ranch he starts OF
up tn trail t. tn Flats.
NOW nobody in town knew any
thin about what hid happened, cause
when Sam rode OF swearin he'd run
tn SMOKERS of the map it was as
good as done. But one day Jud |
Townsend comes in to town an says
when he was riding down the Primo |
Pass he looked across the Flats an |
tn sheep was still there. That cou-
pied with the fact that nobody'd seen
nor heard o. Sam for most two weeks |
looked kind o. queer. SO some O. the |
boys that was in JEFF Peters saloon |
lowed they'd go look into it their
selves. They starts out up the trail |
to the Flats
When they gets there they leaves |
their horses and starts real quiet-like |
for the tent. figurfn' to catch tn |
snoozers unawares. but when they
gets half way there they stops be- |
cause they comes around = little oak |
covered hill and on the other side
they sees moving picture an that |
picture IL Sam. standin' in the middle
of a dozen lambs, holdin' one Of 'em
in his arms while girl with yellow |
hair is feedin' 1t somethin' out of . |
spoon. She's got q book on lamb
raisin' or somethin' an she's holdin'
1t in one hand an reading instruc-
tions while he's foilowin' too, with
his head real close to hers.
"RUD PETERS is the first to see it
an he calls the others and
they stands there. starin' at the
scene an swearin' somethin' scandal
GUS. An IL they was mad at Sam
1t wasn't because he hadn't run the
snoozers out. you bet. Alice il
standin' 80 the sun shines kind o.
gold on her hair. and she's got on a !
little green ridin' suit. an she's stuck
bit O. blue lupin in her belt that
sort O. reflects the blue O. her eyes,
and takin' it all an all. she amt the
kind O. person nobody'd run out O.
town.
"Jud Townsend is the first to get
hiQ breath Ind a1wava To
dies man. He gets down the hill
first O. any O. 'em.
Low, SAM he says, real sweet,
an how is little Bo-Peep? Won't
you Introduce me to the little lamb
kins?'
Sam turns round real sudden and
he don't look half pleased, but Alice,
she smiles up at them pleasant and
sweet.
"',Oh! she says: How do you do!
suppose you're some more Of my
neighbors.'
about Sheep"
Now il man had asst 'em that.
bein' dyed-in- the-wool cattle men.
they'd have hit him. but those great
ganglin' NUTS only smile. and each
an every one o. them tries to make ,
her think he invented sheep
Mr.. Sepulvida'g been awfully help
ful' she tells EN-. But he don't seem
to know an awful lot about EN-. she
says. Although he's learnih'. He's
studyin' nights. an I think in time
he'll make an awful good sheep
herder.'
Nobody pays any attention to Sam.
strong with the little lady. And
pretty soon she takes 'em over to tn
tent and feeds 'em tea. which they
endeavors to swallow lookin' as