The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-06-16

'""h ulut as Dig fool
as am ought not to advertise II
brain that has treated its ownnr ms
Shameful as mine has treated mo
should be compelled to do ifs own
'hlnkin' err die. I've invented some
lhlhgs that may sell. I've been hon.
~ my luck would turn"
"ltIl turn when you turn it," Sam.
son assured him.
brlmstead leaned close to Samson's
ear and said In a tone scarcely aud.
ible:
My brother Robert has his own
ldlot asylum. It's real handsome
one an he has made it pay, but /
wouldn't swap with him."
Samson smiled remembering that
Robert had liquor store. Look here
henry Brimstead, we're hungry" he
SAID. IF We furnish the water. well
Skirmisll around for bread and give
we as good dinner as we ever had
In yer life"
Henry took the horses to his barn
and watered and fed them. Then he
brought two pals of water from the
spring. Meanwhile Samson started a
IRE In grove of small poplars by
the roadside and began brolllng veni-
son. and Sarah got out the bread
board and the flour and the rolling-pin
and the teapot. As she waited for
the water she called the three strange
children TO her side. The oldest was
a girl of ten, with a face uncommonly
refined and attractive. In spite Of
her threadbare clothes. she had
neat and clearly look and gentle man
ners. The youngest was q boy Of
four. They were a pathetic trio.
"Where's your motherT" Sarah
asked of the ten-year-old girl.
Dead. Died when my little brother
was born"
"Who takes care of your"
Father and-God. Father says
God does most Of IT,"
"oh dearw Sarah exclaimed, with
look OF pity.
They had a good dinner OF fresh
biscuits and honey and venIson and
eggs and tea. While they were eating
Samson told Brlmstead OF the land of
plenty.
After dinner, while Brimstead was
bringing the team, one Of his chill
dren, the blonde, pale, tattered little
girl Of six, climbed into the wagon
seat and sat holding a small rag doll,
which Sarah had given her. When
they were ready to go she stubbornly
refused 10 get down.
I'm goin' away" she said. I'm
goln' aw-a-ay off TO find my mother.
don't like this place. There amt
no Santa Claus here. I'm goln' away"
She chung TO the wagon seat and
cried loudly when her father took
her down.
"Ain't that enough to break a mans
hearth" he said with a sorrowful look.
Then Samson turned to Brlmstead
and asked:
Look here, Henry Brimstead, are
you drinking man7 Honor bright
now"
"Never drink a thing but water and
tea"
do you know anybody who'll give
We anything for what you own hereH'
"There's man in the next town
who offered me three hundred and
fifty dollars for my interest"
"Come along with us and get the
money II you can. I'll help ye fit
up and 60 where We can earn a liv-
Ing"
"Td like to, but my horse Is lame
and / can't leave the children"
PUT 'em right in this wagon and
come on. If there's livery In the
place. I'll send We home"
SO the children rode In the wagon
and Samson and Brimstead walked
while Sarah drove the team TO the
next village. There the good woman
bought new clothes for the whole
Brimstend family and Brlmstead sold
his interest in the sand plains and
bought good pair Of horses, with
harness and some cloth for a wagon
cover and had fifty dollars In his
pocket and new look In his fnce
He put his children on the backs Of
the horses and led them to his old
home, with sack of provisions on
his shoulder He was 10 take the
track Of the Traylors next day and
begin his journey to the shores of
the Sangamon.
They got into a bad swale that
afternoon and Samson had 10 cut
some corduroy to make n footing for
team and wagon and do much prying
with the end of a heavy pole under
the front axle. by end by the horses
pulled them out.
"When Of Colonel bends his neck
things have to move. even II he is
up to his belly In the mud" said
Samson.
AS the day waned they came TO a
river in the deep woods. II was an
exquisite bit OF forest with the bells
of hermit thrush ringing in one
OF Its towers. Their call and the
low song OF the river were the only
sounds IN the silence. The glow Of
the setting sun which lighted the
western windows OF the forest had o