The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-06-04

either arm and outstanding them to the ga
rage, throwing them into a car with an
armful Of rugs after them, and whirling
off to the junction at LarOche to meet
some city guest run down for a fishing
party.
He collected one too many of these
friends, a Suave and polished man, who
was morally rotten to the core. His name
was good enough, perhaps the only one
left, De COurcey, which in some curious
way became Churchill in England, defying
all laws of nomenclature. He had been born
in Algiers, his father q colonel in the.
French army, and, like all C~reOles, he was
possessed OF that amazing suppleness that
is almost an endowment of the devil gods
Of Africa and enables one to sift in be-
tween the molecular structure Of material
fabrics.
At any rate, he walked into that house
hold, looked over Edith and Diane, tried
Edith first as q sort OF experiment perhaps,
then, finding her wave length not quite ad-
Unstable, transferred his attack to Diane,
meantime having built himself q sort Of
emplacement in the esteem of M. ROux.
There can be no question but that De
| COurcey fascinated ROuX. He could talk
tractors or chickens to his host without
changing his gait. He could talk guns to
him, then go out to the trap and break
clay pigeons in endless succession before
they we're half way to the limit line. As
a little cooking main, a sanguinary sport
forgotten except in the south of France.
And not content with the gaffe, he brought
down from Paris some slaShers that he had
managed to get somewhere, and showed
ROuX how to throw the figure eight bitches
that held them securely.
He showed Diane how to use her buffer
without redden1ng her finger tips and he
showed Edith how to cure her Basset Of
the demangeaisOn rouge by touching each
mangey ulcer with creOsOte.
He showed the cook how to make a ham
sOuffle properly by mascerating the raw
meat fiber with a round cObblestOne be-
Ofre whipping it into the mousse Of cream
and eggs. He managed to show everybody
some new trick about what they thought
they knew most. And all the time he was
trying to make up his mind which one OF
ROuX'S girls to take. Edith offered more
difficulties, because her MIND was so
against. That made her more interesting
but at the same m more fattguing. So
he finally picked on Diane.
Aaron Burr, walking into the house Of
Rlennerhasset down there on his island IL
/, the river, could have sat at his feet and
learned the rudiments Of the game. Tt
compare the two is rather Xix comparing
the assault Of an Don Juan with a dose o.
Chargers fever. Obi, the African devil god
was backing this Algerian with a noble
name.
Now all Of this is my W elaboration
OF PerVier's bald statement Of facts, as 1
5 somebody sets up props for a mtse-en
I scene and then somebody else came alOnl
o and draped them. It rather carries m
away, because I got the whole picture 81
I, Roux was ~actionnaire OF a circle Of
q dozen who had the shooting privileges o
y the forest Of Nitry. They were all men o
e his type, 8 wholesome crOWd, mostly win
y growers, with the judge de Ia paix and th
nataire and a doctor or two and sometime
the prefet hOnOred them with his Presenc'
They shot the preserve once every tW
weeks through the season, the game mOstl
sanglir, wild boar having become even MOI
plentiful since che war, when 80 many WeE
driven dOWn from the ArgOnne ana On
Ardennes, even from the VOsges. The
were also cheVreuils, though these prett
4 little rOebuck we're so much beloved Chl
10 many OF the local chasseurB let them pa
e, by rather than slay. Then there we're al
tridges in the edge OF the wood, the Erenc
1t partridge being more like our quail tna
~ grouse.
The battue or drive was not popular. III
20 French, unlike the English, are real sport
men and do not like the slaughter OF drtv,
20 game. But there is something about g cal
glier that seems to invite killing. A b
20 Old solitaire is such a wicked brute, VII
TO the enormous grEEled head that Is about
70 third OF him, with its curved, Whetted d
08nses, tuEhes that can msemDoWel q @,
~ neatly as q butcher opens tne pig ME
self. and his glinting Redeemed little eyi
u with their protection Of hatred scarce
10 ieuualed except iu the human species.
e. The chase q ganglscr at NlCET was
Jolly event, an hands meeting az the 40
ze, cabane en- the woods. ROuL sometimes lu
pa. ging his chef for the ten-thirty de3eun'
me on jig that IunctionarT was I'M demand, go
bis ping to pick uD the patron Of the no.
ife whose name beDttngly Wa8 FaLiorQ. "a
ce hunter BROUGHT 9 oog 81 two ana
les RoH-oon, 9 tiny wooden o4Erei A-A4
about two HteF8 OF has best vintage
'on served foE UmlT Luncaonn. c1flstel
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