Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-07-15

| them. Some way the news OF my AZ
has got here from Springfield. Sara
was kind OF cut up Jack kelso ha
/ nicknamed me The man with the iro
| arms, and Abe. who is better ma
| every way laughs AT my embarrass
ment and says ought to feel honored
For one thing Jack Armstrong ha
become good citizen. His wife ha
foxed pair of breeches for Abe
There has been no devitry here since
that day. | guess the gang Is broken
! up-too much iron In its way
Sarah enjoyed fixing up the cabin
jack Kelso had given her some deer
and buffalo skins TO lay on the floors.
The upper room. reached by a stick
ladder, had its two beds, one OF which
Harry occupied The children slept
below in trundie bed that was
pushed under the larger one when II
was made up in the morning.
''S0me time I'm going to put in
wndletrap and get rid O. that stick
ladder Samson had said
Sarah had all the arts of the New
England home maker Under her
hand the cabin, in color, atmosphere
and general neatnesS. would have de-
lighted higher taste than was to be
found on the prairles. save In the
brain of KelsO, who really had some
acquaintance with beauty. To be sure
the he'd was In one corner, spread
with its upper cover knit of gray yarn
harmonizing in color with the bark
of the log walls. handsome dark
brown buffalo robe lay beside it. The
rifle and powder horn were hung
above the manteI. The fireplace had
its crane of wrought iron
Every one in the little village came |
to the house warming. The people
were In their best clothes. The women
wore dresses of new calico-save Mrs.
Doctor Allen, who wore black silk
dress which had come with her from
her late home in Lexington. BIN
kelso came in a dress of red muslin
trimmed with white lace. Ann Rut-
ledge also wore a retl dress and came
with Abe. The latter was rather
grotesque in his new linsey trousers,
of better length than the former
pair but still too short
1T isn't fair to blame the trousers
or the tailor" he had said when he
had tried them on. MY legs are so
Ong that the Imagination of the tailor
S sure to fall short if the cloth don't.
Next time I'll have 'em made to meas
Ire with a ten-foot pole instead of
If they're too long l can
oil 'em up and let out link or two
When they shrink. Ever since | was a
10Y / have been troubled with shrink ,
ng pants" :
Abe wore blue swalow-tail coat
18th brass buttons, the tails of which +,
'ere so short as to be we'll above the =,
anger of pressure when he sat down. :
lis cowhide shoes had been well
lackened; the blue yarn of his socks
lowed above them. These darned
'cks of mine are rather proud and
onceited," he used TO say. "They
Ike to show off"
He wore shirt of white. I'M :,
cached cotton, SEARCHED collar and =
ack tie. d
In speaking of his collar to Samson.
said that he felt like wild horse y"
a box STALL
Mentor Graham, the schoolmaster.
Is there-a smooth faced man with "
large head. sandy hair and a small o
lstache, who spoke by note, as it Z"
ere. Kelso called him the great
ticulator and said that he walked
the valley of the shadow of LindIey l
lrray. He seemed to keep a watch
eye on his words, as If they were "
lot of schoolboys not to be trusted. vi
ey came out with a kind of self III
lscious rectitude. Ill
The chlldren's games had begun IN
j the little house rang with their III
lgs and laughter, while their elders ~
by the fire and along the walls
king. Ann Rutledge and BIN Kelso
Harry Needles and John Mcneil Ivy
'yed with them. In one of the 'o
ices all joined in singing the W.
SEES: Bu
on have none o. yer weevily wheat hul
wont have none o. yer barley; nm.
on have none o. yer weevily Wheat. 4''
make cake for Charley.
riley is a fine young man,
farley is a dandy ma
riley likes to kiss the girls,
henever 1t comes handy
hen a victim was caught In the
lg serimmage at the end of pas ~
IN the game Of Prisoners, he or .'S
was brought before the blind l,ai
ed Judge: Cal
feavy heavy hangs over your ."''
!, said the constable. uav
Inc or superfne?" the Judge in , elu'
ed. Ing
'ine." said the constable. which sem
Mt that the victim was a boy. al anu
the sentence was pronounced Ine
generally it was this: SCOT
70 bow to the wittlest, kneel TO oesi
prettlest and kiss the one that YOU oeou
hest 49, ScOu