The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-01-06

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body could do or say, and the old
squire was about to turn the case over
to the jury when Chad arose.
Squire" he said, and his voice
tremblsd, "Jsek's my dog. / lived
with him night and day for bout
three years and want to axe some
questions He turned to DAVIS:
II want to axe you ef thar was any
blood around that sheep
Thar wis great big pool O
blood" said DAVIS. Indignantly. CEad
looked 1T the squire.
well, a sheep KILN dog don't
leave no great pool o. blood, squirs,
with the fust one he kills. He sucks
itv Several men nodded their heads.
squirrel The fust time l come
over those mountains, the fust people
l seed was those Di1lons-and WIKI
ger. They sicked Whizzer on Jack
hyeh and Jack whooped him Then
Tad thar jumped me and whooped
him" THE Turner boys were nod
ding confrmation). "Since that time
they've hated Jack and they've hated
me an they hate the Turner'S partly
for takin' keer Of me l tell you,
squire, / know sheep KILN dawg,
an jes' as | know Jack amt, know
the Dillon's dawg naturally is, an /
tell you, if the Dillon's dawg killed
that sheep and they could put it on
Jack-they'd. do it. They'd do it,
squire, an tell you, yo-ortern't-
to let - that - sheriff thar-shoot
my-dog the billions answer
what l axed-" The boys passion
ate cry rang against the green walls
and out the opening and across the
river
"Whar's Whizzer ?"
The boy startled the crowd and the
old squire himself, who turned quick
ly to the billions.
a'Well, whar is Whizzer?"
Nobody answered.
"He amt been seen, squire sence
the evenin' afore the night O. the
killin,," Chad's statement seemed to
be true Not a voice contradicted-
San I want to know if DAVIS seed
signs O. KILN on Jacks head when
he jumped the fence, why them same
signs didn't show when he got home"
Poor Chad. Here old Tad Dillon |
raised his hand:
"Axe the school teacher"
why" said the school master, and
he hesitated, but old Joel in a voice
that was without tone, encouraged
him:
go on"
aJack had blood on mis- muzzle, and |
a little strand o. wool behind one
ear"
There was no hope against this tes
timony. Chad dropped with a sob to
the bench and put his arms around
the dog. He knew what the verdict
would be, and in twenty minutes the
jury gave it, without leaving their
seats.
"Guiltyp
The sheriff came forward swell,
by -, this is job l don't like, an
I'm damned if I'm goin' to shoot
this dawg afore he knows what I'm
shootin' him fer. I'm goin' to show
him that sheep fust. Whar's that
sheep, Daws7"
DAVIS led the way down the road,
over the fence, across the meadow and
up the hill side where lay the slain
sheep, as Chad jumped to his feet,
ran up the Hill and disappeared in
the brush. If the sheriff expected
Jack to drop head and tail and look
mean he was greatly mistaken. Jack
neither hung back nor shifted at the
carcass Instead, he put one fore
foot on it and with the other bent in
he air looked without shame into the
,heriff's eyes-as much as to say:
Yes, this is a wicked thing, but what
lave got to do with it? Why are
'ou bringing me here?'
The sheriff came back greatly puz-
led and shaking mis- head Jack sud
enly caught scent of Chad's tracks
With one mighty bound the dog
matched the rawhide string from the
areless sheriff's hand and was speed
lg up toward the woods and a minute
tier had disappeared in the bushes :
The billions crowded angrily about Z
lie sheriff They did not know Chad
as up in the woods or they would :
ave gone in search of him. Little
ad Dillon gave an excited shrek y
"Look up thar" n
And up there at the edge Of the "
God was Chad, standing, and at his It
,et Jack sitting on his launches II
"Come on up hyeh,' said Chad Il II
1t something to show YOU
The boy turned with such certainty hi
lat without a word Squire, sheriff, W
nrners, billions and spectators fol-
wad AS they approached a deep