Gunnison news-champion., 1921-04-22

NHAsr AHf~ Ll-1 Dl1t A-NATe st-Ft-h IN
an hours tine Don't ! knOw7 Didn I
! s,e enough Of it, And an telling
yoa il xss sesrIe; beeazse-~elL be-
e1Gss IL vas scarlet There Is no other
Word sUr it
Red is good enough for me- Hare
Z Up u1rtisrsd obs;inately NY dad
s4ils rcd ret. and he ought 10 know
lie says everybody died OF the Red
Death
-Yogr dad IS a common fellow. de
4 seC1 srd f-r1 a COMMON fellow Gran
ser -g;0rrc5 Eeatediy -noa't ! know
he be=fTuinzs OF the Chauheurss
I YozT Fslldz!re Was a chauffeur. n
5e-Tuz-- aad without education lie
HgrEad for other persons Hut your
rand rGutd-r vas OF good stock only
ms children did not TAKE after her.
I Dent re-iellber When ! first met
them. eztchiaE fsh q; IaEe Tenes-
r1-~
What Is education - ElVin asked
Calling red scarlet. EaEe-l ip
Fuesret. then returned 70 the attack
"A Grazssr. -My dad told ne, an
be cot {, from bis dad afore he
rruaEcf, that your wife was a Santa
Rosan. an that she was sure no &c
-cunt He said she was a hash-slinE.
er before the Red Death. though
4ont know what a hash-slingcr Is
You can tell me. Edwin
But giwin shook his head IN token
Il ignorance.
II Is true. she was a waitress
9-aI Iaer acknowledged "But she was
good woman. and your mother was
Ter daughter. Women were very
scarce in the days after the Plague
She was the only wife could find.
even II she was a hash.sliuger. as
your father calls e. But II is not nice
10 talk about our progeni,ors that
way"
Dad says that the wife of the first
chauffeur was a lady"
What's a LADY," HooHoo de-
rrr75 4
a Iady's chauffeur squaw." was
the quick reply OF Hare-Lip.
The first chauffeur was Bill. a
common fellow, as said before" the
old man eXpounded: but his wife
was lady. a great lady. Before the
Scarle, Death she was the wife of
Van Warden. He was president OF
the board OF Industrial magnates, and
was one of the dozen men who ruled
America He was worth one billion.
eight hundred millions OF dollars
coins Ike you have there in your
pouch. Edwin. And then came the
Scarlet Death. and his wife became
the wife OF Bill. the first chauffeur.
He used to beat her, too. have seen
II myself"
Hoo-Hoo. lying on his stomach and
idly digging his toes in the sand, cried
out and investigated. first, his toe
nail. and. next. the small hole he had
dug. The other two boys Joined him.
excayating the sand rapidly with
their hands till there lay three skele-
tons exposed. Two were adults. the
third being that OF part-grown child.
The old man nudged along on the
ground and peered at the find.
Plague victims" he announced.
That's the way they died every
where in the last days. This must
have been family. running away
from the contagion and perishing
here on the Cliff house beach. They
what are you doing. Edwin
This question was asked in sudden
dismay. as Edwin. using the back OF
his hunting knife, began to knock out
the teeth from the Jaws Of one OF the
skulls.
Going to string EN-" was the re
sponse.
The three boys were now hard at
It: and quite knocking and ham,
mering arose. In which Granser bab-
bled on unnoticed.
You are true savages- Already
has begun the custom of wearing hu.
man teeth. In another generation
you will be perforating your noses
and ears and wearing ornaments Of
bone and shell. know. The human
race is doomed to sink back-farther
and farther into the primitive night
ere again It begins its bloody climb
upward to civilization. When we in
crease and feel the lack of room, We
shall proceed to kill one another
And then ] suppose. you will wear
human scalp locks at your waist, as
well-as you. Edwin, who are the
gentlest Of my grandsons. have al
ready begun with that vile pigtail.
Throw It away. Edwin. boy; throw It
away"
What gable the old geezer
Makes" Hare-Lip remarked, when,
the teeth all extracted. they began an
attempt at equal division.
They were very quick and abrupt in
their actions. and their speech. in mo-
ments Of hot discussion over the al
lotment OF the choicer teeth. was
truly gabble. They spoke in mono
syllables and short. jerky sentences
that we're more gibberish than
language. And yet. through 1t ran
hiuta of grammatical construction