Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-06-07

htm. He was PROBABLY less capaols
than TransIey, but he would be easier
TO manage. But who was
looking for a husbaad2 Not Zen No.
no, certainly Lot Zen.
Then there was George Drazk.
whose devoti0ns fuctuated between
chat Pete-horse" and the latest fe-
male to cross his orbit. At the thought
Of George Drazk Zen laughed outright.
She bad played with him. She had
made 4 saqnkey Of him. and he de-
serysd az - had rOS. y was not the
first occasion upon wl,iyH Pen has ct
herself drift with the tide. alwSy~
sure of justifylng herself and discom-
hting someone by the swift. strong
strokes with which. at the right mo-
ment, she reached the shore. Zen
liked TO think of herself as careering
through life in the same way as she
rode the half-broken horses Of her fa-
Tiers range. How many such horse
had thought that the 1.-THE body on his
back was something to race with. toy
with, and when tired of that. fling
precipitately to earth! And not one
of those horses but had found that
while he might race and toy with his
rider within limitations, at the last
that light body was master, and not
he Yet Zen loved best the
horse that raced widest AMI was hard
est TO bring into subsection.
That was her philosophy Of life so
far as girl of twenty may have
philosophy OF life. II was TO go on and
see what would happen, supported al
ways by quiet confidence that in any
pnCh she could take care of herself.
She had learned to ride and shoot. to
sleep ont and cook in the open, to
ride the ranges after dark by instinct
and the stars-she had learned these
things while other girls of her age
learned the rudiments Of fancywork
and the scales of the piano.
Her father and mother knew her
disposition. loved it, and feared for il.
They knew that there was never a
rider SO brave, so skillful so strong,
but some outlaw would throw him ut
last. So at fourteen they sent her
east 70 boarding school In two
months she was back with letter Of
expulsion, and the boast of having
BACKED the eyes Of the principals
daughter.
They couldn't teach me any more,
Mother" she said. They admitted IL.
So here | am"
Y.D was plainly perpexed IT'S
about time you was halter-broke." ne
q ~mented, who's goin' to do it2"
III a girl has learned TO read and
think, what more can the schools do
for herr" she demanded
And YD, never having been to
school, could not answer.
The sun was Gaping the Rockies
with molten gold when the rancher
| and his daughter swung down the foot
Hill slopes to the camp on the South
YD Strings of men and horses re-
turning from the upland meadows
could be seen from the hillside as they
| descended.
Y.D.'s sharp eyes measured the
scale of operations.
They're hittin' the high spots" he
said, approvingly. That boy Transley
is a hum-dinger."
Zen made no reply.
Il say he's a hum-dlnger," her IA
Their repeated.
The girl looked up with a quick flush
NN wvfn -
her, and IL he went out of his way
to commend Transley he had a pur.
pose
"Mr. Transley seems to have made
hit with you. Dad" she remarked,
evasively.
well, do like to see a man who's
got the goods in him. like a man
that can get there, just as | Ike a
horse that can get there. I've often
wondered, Zen, what kind you'd take
up with, when Il came 10 that, an
hoped he'd be a live crittur. After
I'm dead an buried I don't want no
other dead one spendln my simoleons"
How about Mr. Under" said Zen
naively
Her father looked up sharply. zen"
he said, you're not serious?"
Zen laughed. - don't figure you're
exactly serious. Dad, in your talk about
| Trausley You're just feeling out
Well-let me do a little feeling out.
How about LinderT'
'Linder's all right" Y.D. replied.
Better than the average, I admit But
/ he's not the man Transley u.s. II he
was, be wouldn't be workin' for Trans
| ley. You can't keep q man down Zen.
| IF he's got the goods in him. Under
comes up over the average, SOS you
can notice It, but not Ike Transley
does"
Zen did not pursue the subject. she
understood her fathers philosophy
very well indeed. and, to a large de-
gree, she accepted # rs her own. Ths
only quality I'D. took Of his hat to
was the ability to do things And
/ YD's idea Of things was very con-
crete: IT had to do with steers and
/ land. with hay and money and men.
II was BY such things he measured
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