Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1935-02-02

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Dec. ST have read the above over
more than cnce and then hid ik away
from Christiily. because Il Is written
On sermon paper. Christiily Is 3 most
faithful young woman with 8 face as
red and hush as q rasp. who knows her
carritches both ways, and has such 8
reverence for ministers that she looks
upon me more as an edifice than
mortal She has an almost equal pride
IN herself for being q minister's servant,
and walks into the kirk with an Of
fetal genteelity that some consider Of
fensive. She has also a provoking way
Of discussing me IN my presence as II
were not there, telling visitors the
most intimate things about me, such as
the food like but it does not like me
the while she stands in what is meant
to be respectful attitude, neither in
side nor outside the door.
My visitors are likely to be few for
some time 10 come. neighbors from the
Five Houses whites. and hope Mistress
Lindinnock and DR.. John from Brand
ers. The smith at the Five Houses is
my chief elder. and. as his BARNS are
innumerable, the family In their two
pews are a heartsome sight. A more
cautious man in argument I have never
known. About as far as he win go Is,
Il agree with you to a certain extent,
or, my answer to that is yes and no.
Posty has a story that he made the
second Of these answers at his mar
riage when asked If he took this wom-
an.
Posty is also at the Five Houses. His
most valued possession Is q velocipede,
which has so often come to bits when
he was on it that near every man IN
the glen has been at the repairing OF
It, including myself, or at least has
contributed chains or iron grid. he
brings the letters from Branders on
this machine and, as it often runs away
with him, we all-dogs, hens and hui
mans-loup the dyke when we see him
bearing down on us. BE carries tele-
grams too. but there are so few Of
these, now the English have gone, that
when we see him waving one we ask,
who is dead?"
My great friend Is DR.. John, who Is |
sometimes in the glen to succor us,
though he lives at Branders, where he |
sits under Mr. Watery. Branders Is an
important place Of five hundred in
habitants, and stands near loch, out
Of which two streams run IN opposite
directions ike parties to family feud
that can no longer be settled with the
cIaymcre. Branders Is not In the glen,
but Just at the head Of it, and, accord
ing to DR.. John, It stopped there be-
cause it said to itself, "Those who go
farther will fare worse" It is simply /
six miles from my manse in summer
weather, but seventeen from the near
est railway station and electric tele-
graph. DR.. John says that whether
Branders is the beginning or end Of
desolation depends on your looking up
or down the road.
A gnarled little figure Of about fifty
is DR.. John, grandly bearded, but for
a man OF larger size. he wears plaid
in all weathers and sometimes even IN
the house, for, as he says, before he
has time to wap it off and find it again
somebody on a cart horse win be clat-
tering to his door to hurry him to my
glen. I have seen him, too, sitting be-
hind on that gathering horse. Repute
says that for humane ends he wiz get
through when the glen is locked to all
others, though his sole recompense will
be a ham at the killing or a kebbock or
a keg Of that drink have spell. Il
touch it not, cannot deny
that he partakes as If It were water,
WITH for never being the worse Of it.
If he is In the glen he sometimes puts
up his shalt at the Five Houses and
stays the night with me. when we have
long cracks, the while he smokes his y
pipe, granting, which Is the Scotch way {
of bringing out the flavor. Last night
was such an occasion, and we got on
10 the stories about Strangers" Of {
which he says humorously he has heard l
many cutters, though he has never had (
she luck to encounter the carls them {
selves. He maintains that the origin I
If all the cutters Of nowadays was
hat cankering affair Of the AS which, I
among its misdeeds, for long gave an
u name to the pipes. Y
The glen had been q great hiding 4
Slace Of pretty men" Of the period, Z
md among it's fearsome crags and cav b
rms, II ancient tales be true, those ILL 3
yettit gentlemen had lurked for {
months and some Of them for years. 8
{ Is said that forbears Of folk stin in :
he glen saw them from below, search Il
ng for roots, and 50 distraught with Il
munger that they went on searching
penly while they were being shot at {
" the redcoats, who would not face I
he climb. When the glen was IN a I
lanket Of SNOW and pursuit for time b
{ an end, they sometimes lay at the Il
srand House, which was loyal TO their e
ark cause, and held secret carorse Ii
here. 81
They were talked Of cautiously by "
ne glen folk Of those times, who liked a
est TO be Of no party unless they were n
Z both, would not betray them TO an 81