Evening star., 1933-04-02
BY IDA MOULTON LARSON

SET by cayuse down in front Of Gabes
cabin and jerked zip. I had news for
Gabe. He came out. cool as he always Is.
Whats the matter?" he asks. swallowed
your quid. or sumpum?"
"Guid, nothin' Git ready for trouble"
who's shootin' now?"
"Nobody's shootn'. Kota's hxin' to git mar
ried."
mo he amt. He just thinks he is. Who is
1t this timer"
Its that red-headed woman that's opened
thefnew eatin place out in Tie Sidin'."
"Says who?"
"Her hasher told me-"
"He just thinks he's goin' to git married."
Gabe goes on firm. "I amt saved him from
matrimony all this time to see him took on
now not even by red-head. You better light
an come in an tell me about It,"
was kind of enjoying myself as Gabe
rolled hissef ciearet and handed me the
makin's.
'The trouble with Kota" he goes on, "is as
soon as he throws lip over new womans
cookin' he wants off to see the preacher. Last
time it was that cook Of Hardrath,s with q
map like handful of scrap iron. an so cross
eyed she was smokin' off his cigaret half the
time thtnkin' it was hern 5
b
learn to make sumpum he called scones! Seems
they was sort Of citified biscuit. But you
notice he's stin eatin' my brand"
HE won't be long now" said I. '-The
weddin' takes place right soon, hear"
mo It won't" says Gabe frm as ever.
s'When we took these joinin' homesteads an
built cur cabins to make It legal, he promised
out an have place OF my own to bed down
on, Std of wrasslins cows for somebody else.
Nov wc'n see II that nittin' butterdys goin'
to desert!'
II wouldn't call no 2oo-pound black waddie
butterfly objects.
NQUTTERFLY," repeats Gabe stubborn Its
y his drivin' that stage, an meetin' all the
women In the country that turns his head.
An II he gifts married. where'd my ranch be?
A woman'd have him on this homestead
quicker'n it takes a toad to lap nghtnin'. My
housekeepinm have to do him spell yet"
''You keep it pretty good. at that" says,
taking look around at everything so nice and
neat. DANCED If you amt even got sewin'
machine"
AThat sewin' machine belongs to Mis- Briggs.
Kota fetched it out last night, an he's goin'
to deliver It Saturday. Now you an me is
high taiiin' 1t to town to conversate with this
hasher. I got to get fixed around to put a
burr under this matrimonial saddle Kota aims
TO fork"
'.s'pose you could wait tin I sew up my
overhauls on that contraption?" asks
Gabe give them an eye.
"It's pretty late in the day to try to save
'em, I'd say. But go ahead If you can run it.
I've seen 'em work some. You throw that
little lever an cinch the cloth, an then you
ride that platform underneath, an it sews
somehow. Try it If you want to stand the
damages But don't lose no time"
The siding is just few buildings strung
along the track, and looking like lot Of
suckin' pigs afraid to let go. We ride up and
hitch In front Of the new fancy Chats Chew
eating place and 60 in
1ts an fixed up with dangling tissue paper
and fancy paper napkins, and the girl that
comes to wait on US has on . blue dress with
sort Of headache band of the same She
wasn't . raying beauty, but she was q kind Of
didn't see why he couldn't Of picked her.
But Gabe says Kota is fond Of his vittles
and the proprietor Of this place does her own
cooking. She was at the desk counting the
money and was her hair red! She wasn't no
Spring chicken, and she had p face that didn't
look like it would stay contented on q home
stead neither.
tA/E set down and Gabe orders hot biscuit
wv and bacon and eggs and coffee, and
order the same. Pretty soon the owner goes out
back and Gabe begins to pump the girl
Mice weather we're havin'," he begins. He's
such q sober little cuss that 1t sounds like
he was talking to the doctor about his giblets
~G1rand," she wrinkles. 'In take q lot of IT,
you like it here?" he asks surprised.
'Sure I do. I think it's great, the noun
tains and the green hills. I like the people,
too. was raised ON q ranch"