Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-01-14

Ia never cuSSeS TIL he wore out.
"Well, when he got done Ash
says, PA, how'd you like to go TO
help" Then he forks your horse
and rides after the boys. Pa 'peared
to be chokin' mad. All Of a sudden
he busted out laughin.' He climbed
up on the wagon with Boots, and
they left"
Rock for the moment succumbed
to a silent fury. But seeing the
gray-eyed brothers watching him
curiously, keen to catch how he
would take this first move of Ash's,
he thot he had better explode ma
turally and wholesomely, as might
any cowboy.
yelled, Justify. "He took my new
white horse! And my saddle that
| wouldn't lend to the King of Eng
land! Never had that happen
to me. Doggone!-Boys, was it
supposed to be a joker
"Joke nothin'. Ash was just
mean, like he always is when we
get a new rider. But reckon you'll
have to take it as a joke"
Huh! l will-like the old lady
who keeps tavern out West!" re-
piled Rock, with a short laugh.
@How's that boss 2" inouirad AL
hugely delighted.
Like h." answered Rock,
Boys, I reckon Pm the maddest
cowpuncher hat ever was. | think
I'll get a horse and saddle from
you, and go after my own"
eff you take my advice you'll
swallow it-leastways till Ash
comes back. Chances are he won't
do Egypt no harm. If you follow
Ash now, mad as you are, there'll
only be another fight"
"Take it as a joke. Or better be
nice about it." added Harry. ''That
always stumps Ash. If he can't
make you mad he let's up-for a
while, anyway"
Thanks, boys, I'll think it over"
rejoined Rock, grateful for their
solicitude. 'But | reckon the good
Lord himself couldn't keep my
mouth shut-after that"
"Let's get to work." suggested
Harry. Were late. And Ash amt
the only one Pa can cuss."
While Rock and Al creased the
wagon wheels, Harry hitched up,
and by the time this task was done
Tom rode in, leading a horse. 1t.
was a bay which would have made
up for the loss of most any horse,
except one like Egypt.
"Where's Ash's saddle?" he
asked.
"It's hangin' there" replied AL.
"But, gee! you won't ride his, will
"I1l be darned if I WON'T" re-
turned Rock, with grim humor.
"You boys rustic along. I'll catch
up"
"Come down the road by the pas
ture, boss" said al. "Then take the
right-hand road. You can't miss
the slaughter-house, for the stink
will knock you down."
After the boys left, Rock pro-
ceeded to put Ash's saddle and
bride on the bay horse, but he
was not in any hurry. This first
trick of Ash Preston's ranked in
wonder what Thirty will
he soliloquized. "She must
have seen Ash on my horse. That's
what upset her. Damn himi-I
He must be one of those people
who make the angels weep. And
here | am with my hands ted"
When Rock rode around the barn
ne espied the wagon far ahead
Town the gentle slope. He came to
he forks of the road, and taking
he lett n he entered the cedars,
the ridge, and descended to
/ grassy open meadow, only to
mount another cedared ridge. Rock
ode up a sparsely cedared slope to
level bench, and soon came upon
he site that had once been Slagle's
'anch. The boys were hating be-
ore the several cabins. AS Rock
ode up, the stencil Enthusiastically
leralded a slaughter-house. Cabins,
corral fences, barns and sheds, andf
wen the trees bore CHASTITY evl-
lence of the nature of what this
I'D Slagle ranch had sunk to. Skins
# cattle hung everywhere.
The horses were turned loose to