The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-02-08
PART TWO

,hiCaRO Tf1DUQe.NeW xOrk NEWS .n .
in all countries by the authoE: Ee b
in whole or in part, foroiooen" :
PART TWO
n. SOME ONE WHO WAS WITH HIM
Dec. 81 have read the above oVei l.
more than once and then hid 1t away
from Christilly, because it is wrttten
On sermon paper. Christilly Is q most
faithful young woman with a race IS
red and lush as a rasp, who knows ner
carritches both ways, and has sucn d
for ministers that h looks
me more as an edifice than d
mortal. She has an almost equal prlue
in herself for being a minister's servant
and walks into the kirk with an o.
ficial genteelity that some consider Oh
fensive. She has also a provoking way
of discussing me in my presence as
I were not there, telling visitors the
most intimate things about me, sucn as
the food I like but it does not like me,
the while she stands in what is meant
to be a respectful attitude, neither IN
side nor outside the door.
MY visitors are likely to be few Ior
some time to come, neighbors from tae
Five Houses whites, and I 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 heir TWO
pews are a heartsome sight. A more
cautious man in argument I have never
known. About as far as he Will go Is,
IT agree with you to a certain extent
or, my answer to that is yes and no"
Posty has a story that he made tne
second of these answers at his mar
riage when asked if he took this Won-
an. .
Posty is also at the Five Houses. HIS
most valued possession is a veloclpeoe'
which has so often come to bits when
he was On it that lear every man IN
the glen has been at the repairing OF
it, including myself, or at least mas
contributed chains or iron giro. he
brings the letters from Branders OH
this machine and, as it often runs away
with him, we all-dogs, hens and hu-
mans-loup the dyke when we see him
bearing down on us. He carries tele-
grams too, but there are so few OF
these, now the English have gone, ina
when we see him waving one we ask
"Who is dead?"
MY great friend is DR.. John, VINO L
sometimes in the glen to succor US
though he lives at Branders, where nj
e sits under Mr.. Watery. Branders is al
important place of five hundred IN
, habitants, and stands near a loch, on
of which two streams run in opposlt'
directions like parties to a family leu
;. that can no longer be settled with tn
claymore. Branders is not in the gler
but lust at the head of it, and, accord
= ing to DR.. John, it stopped there be
cause it said to itself, Those who g
farther will fare worse" It is simpl
six miles from my manse in summe
t weather, but seventeen from the near
= est railway station and electric tele
graph. DR.. John says that whethe
val Branders is the beginning or end c
:. desolation depends on your looking u
!, or down the road.
A gnarled little figure OF about III
h is DR.. John, grandly bearded, u Il
- a man of larger size. He wears a plal
in all weathers and sometimes even
the house, for, as he says, before J
has time to wap it off and find 1t aga
b. somebody on a cart horse will be ella
tering to his door to hurry him to n
glen, I have seen him, too, sitting ~
~ hind on that gathering horse. Repu
saws that for humane ends he will g
through when the glen is locked to
IL others, though his sole recompense j."
I' be a ham at the killing or a keooock
- a keg of that drink I have spelt-.
Though I touch it not, I annot De
at that he partakes as if it were wat
re. and is celebrated (and even condol
md WITH for never being the worse OF 1t
!" If he is in the glen he sometimes pl
I'D his shalt at the Five Houses d
mt: stays the night with me, when we ma
ell. long cracks, the while he smokes
w pipe, granting, which Is the scotch "
- of bringing out the flavor. Last MS
Try. was such an occasion, and we got
to the stories about "Strangers,"
which he says humorously he has hes
many cutters, though he has never +
he luck to encounter the carls the
selves. He maintains that the orr
ave: of all the cutters Of nowadays y
that %cankering affair OF the 40 WIN
~, among it's misdeeds, for long gave
i'll name to the pipes.
list. The glen had been a great Mo
place of "pretty men" Of the per
asn' and among its fearsome crags and c
this ems. if ancient tales be true, those
IN gettit gentlemen had lurked
months and some Of them for ye
It is said that forbears Of folk still
the glen saw them from below scar
ing for roots, and so ~distraught '
,on- hunger that they went on searcf
M. o,,,e1v u,hi1e thew were being Sho1
- by the redcoats, who would not
the climb. When the glen was !
ans, blanket OF sno" anu pursul' ~, a.
onia, at an end, they sometimes lay at
Grand House, which was loyal to I
dark cause, and held secret car
49, there. ~
EN- They were talked Of cautiously
- the glen folk Of those times, n i
49, best to be of no party unless they