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

great shakes at work. but when they
come fair-haired labor just naturally
takes a good look and runs past 'em
without speakin'! Pedro Sepulvida was
that kind. but he hadn't been married
long when that little red-headed Irish
Jane scared him into diggin' right in an
worEin'. First thing you knew. he had
a right smart bunch O. cattle.
you'd get this here heredity thing
straight. I reckon it'll explain a sight
o. things in Sam you couldn't a under
stood otherwise. Sam growed up
round the place. and when he'd got.
ten as big as half an hour you could
tsee he was like piece O. bacon. First
a streak O. lean, an then streak o.
fat. He had big brown languishin'
when he was a little chap, an on top
o. his head there was q great flaming
thatch O. hair like his mas. Inside I
reckon he was just like he was out
side. Cause he was real gentle most
a temper like a little red-headed devil.
by that time his pa had died. quite
wore out by his unusual exertions, but
Mis- Sepulvida was still goin' strong.
he was twenty or thereabouts. she up
an died, an after that he ran the joint
hisself.
'And just then the sheep men begun
to come into the country and Billy
Hades was raised for fair. They was
pushin' down from the north. an first
thing you know the place was overrun
with the vermint. Overnight they be-
gun f1illin' the free pastures like Whlte
rats. The boys got together in Gulch
City and formed a committee to argue
with the SMOKERS, and made sam
chairman. which was q compliment to
him as q man and gunmanEthan
which there was no better in Gulch
n fvv1 m
stands up. his face all tan and kind OF
grim. his hair standin' up Redeem tn
eternal fire you read about IN the
Bible. and he says. sort O. grim-like:
amin t. clean this part O. the state
Of every kind o. vermint an that
rides on in cloud o dust
Those was great days!
'The head O. the snoozers was over
in Purissima Flats. the best grazing
ground round these parts. Fellow
named Beth, sort o ex-gunman.
He made a special dead set at Sam,
an it wasn't till he d been licked to a
stand stili that he left. tal<in' his sheep
with him, an issuin' warnin that he'd
get even somehow. Most O. the other
snooxers cleared out before him. an
Sam was left cock o tn walk.
weren't hard to LOOK at. an his doin's
had sort o. put him in the limelight.
First thing you know all the girls be.
gun to sit up and take notice. And
ried. because there weren't any what
you'd rightly call ladies in the place.
lust then comes news that there's
new snoozer situated in Purissima
Flats. Sam told the boys assembled
round JEFF Peters har just what he's
goin' T. do Z that expurgated snoozer
an his unexpurgated sheep. fllin' In
with Spanish where his English swear
words won't quite reach. Then he
starts of up the TAIL sixty ways to
goes. -.
ssxx7ELL, 1t weren't for two weeks
w that I see him again, and then
only for a minute. So II I tell you
what happened you mustn't think
knowed it then. It wasn't for long
time that he loosens up. 1t seems
that he goes along eatin' up the miles
and cussin' the worthlessness OF
!, snoozers in general. an this one in
particular, until he reaches the upper
spanS. in the center o. the map is a
lot o. woolly white caterpillar effects
engaged in eatin' up all the grain.
He looks round an can't see any one
in charge, but over to the west west. Is s;a
gun on his hip, Then. Just as he's
comm over little rise. where there's
a scrub oak or so he hears some one
CALM him. He looks up and there.
myself and I'm here to state she was
some girl. all kind o. white an soft
like. with real yellow hair and blue
eyes. You know, the kind that gets
nve hundred a week week IN In m snna. PIC;
yovno an innocent to face the cruel,
hard world.
"Well, Sand never seen her like.
bein' used to the black -and-tan va
sety that That eoes out
O. a bottle, but the girl doesn't seem
to mind his starin'. She's carryin
a lamb and it's kfckin' like Biliy-be.
damned. and she just looks at him real
"Oh, mfster!' she says. Won't you
please help me!' An. O. course bein'
maj, born O. woman. Tiers Just one
thing he can do. and he does It. Five
minutes later sne dd, GOT u nim .cs srpS.
in tn lamb, an I dunno which one
is the meeker o. the two. But nnaliy
he gets up spunk enough to ask whose
sheep those is. and she says real PROUD
like:
They're mine. Amt they beau
tiesy
There he stands with his mouth
open and that silly lamb a-hangih IN
his arms starin' at her.
"'Yours? he says, and she mods.
Eyes Mine and my brothers.
well. at that he chirked up a bit
II theirs a man in 1t. he can argue
preps5 :. ,o,, ,,o,,s-~ he asks
and she waves hand toward the tent.
He's there she says. but II you talk
to him you've got to be real quiet. be-
cause he's pretty sick. Bud is
:" Sick he says again. like an
echo. And her eyes nils with tears.
"Yes,' she tells him. He took sick
last winter with a cold and he couldn't
seem to quit coughin. and the doctor
says he'd have to come out here.
We didn't have an awful lot o money
saved up. an I was lookin' for some
thin Bud could do. So when we got
to San Francisco we met man.,
real nice man. he was, named BETH.
"What named you say. miss?' he
asks.
"'Beith,' she tells him. AN he he
told me he'd got a lot O. sheep he'd
sell US cheap and he told me how much
money you cd make on 'em an all
about the free range over here. an
how good you-all are to sheep folks
So we bought his sheep with the last
o. our money and now were here.
Sam can't say anythin', just stands
there tongue-t;ed, while she goes on.
when we landed here Buddy got
worse an he can't do an awful lot t
help. so I kind Of tend to things
myself. but she goes on bravely:
hes goin' to get better soon. and
first thing you know. wen be the
laughs real cute and silvery and then
looks up at Sam where he's standin'
with the lamb in his arms and says.
You can be the Lord Chamberlain