Show arara orara pan uto nr ATI ri awa fixx V effi gatt im 1 l ram A OP OF NORTHEAST tn t N UTAH britton atton fo the vernab EXP RES ES ak by harold I 1 douglas Dous laa introduction in presenting myself in tho the disguise of a citory toller it is neither my iny orpo expectation nor my wish to p 1 loduco a work rankin ranking 1 0 with irvings Irv sketchbook sketch book i a utah classic or oven ll 11 10 ho lo great american novel that has booti ben written and for forgotten gotton so many times dining the last decade li if I 1 should such a work I 1 will depend on my readers to prove that thai it was an accident pure and simple and not duo to premeditated nia liec my highest t ambition zi is to depict in truthful trutha ua colors some of the kind of people that go to make inako up tip a world our world bounded oi shioo ahloo bides by mountains and deorta and on oil the fourth by a broad idling river and to delino tite alto L somo some of tho the custo customs ius a and nd traits by which some of our people filin the natives of other degiers of latitude and longitude the basis of the my iny etory shall bo be fact the fancy it will be realistic but not personal if you liko like my iny yarns I 1 may spin some wore more if not it will be a groat great s satisfaction itis faction to lay down my pencil and retire moro to tho the calm r and nw ew f F silent of private life 11 L D cuan ER elt 1 I TIIE THE RETURN or OF THE PRODIGAL in a narrow flat fiat between two cedar studded hills a white coveted sheep wagon was nas bt standing anding n one november evening not more than a few years ago the grasi gras was knee high and the tops adly diy giving tho the level a kind of YORM yellow tinge tho the smoke was coiling deliberately aloin tho stovepipe stove pipe of the wa waon wagon on and min mingling ling with the motion lobs cob web like clouds above abo va bau bali aaa a a a aano inea ine a inal ma all ah ahl ah suddenly staat startled led the tho still air and the leaders of a bloch of shoop sheep einer emerged ged from froin the mouth of a swale and moved toward the wagon did anyone over ever hoar hear a more collection of varied noises than that by wo two or thousand awat of sheep in good I 1 running order I 1 i ilat of the owes the shrill treble ot 01 lambs and the til tinkling lkling of the many u t toned oiled bells forn form a chorus chortis that ii IL not unpleasant to accustomed cus tomed ears cars As they moved along each cheop would stop occasionally nibble a little and run ahead to make up for lost time As the trailers or roar rear sheep make their appearance the shepherd also stopped stepped on the stage of our drama ho he sauntered slowly along with a six shooter buck buckled led onto his hip a winchester over his shoulder and two tuo months growth of strawberry whickers on his chin A pair of dignified sheep dogs trudged along at heels E every very little while his glance swept the hills and mesas for a stray sheep or ill an unwary antelope passing tile the flock ho he approached the wagon and was about to climb in ill when lie ho saw a man mail riding a cayuso down tho trail toward him bitu ho laid his winchester Winch oster at or aside tho wagon and loaned leaned on oil th wheel as tho the tra traveler voler appi cached id dismounted 1111 hollo olLo pai pi dimier mier t tier ho said hollo J y I 1 the shop hold bo 10 3 ou know now where I 1 will find freo griswold tho the smiled as aa lio lie an the question ves lies hos right hore hero prod fred do you know mo me of course I 1 do your namo name is griswold gris G wold too and you yon used to bo be my br brother othor ilow how goes poes it and much mole moio of the same saine 0 kind the now corner coiner was wa a little under medium height with dark curly hair and gray eyes and looked about 23 years old A close cloae observer would judge jude M that lio ho had been born with common comm sense but had nover never made much it and coil consequently semi bont ly was in the habit 1 of flying i ito hie track after the preliminaries wore over frank griswold unsaddled his pony alida and i putt putting ilig the alio hobbles on oil him hill I 1 wiped him looe 1000 to rustle borne boine food feed then ho he joined fred in the wagon 0 the latter was up to his elbows in sourdough and ilour hour compounding a mysterious mixture known to the profession as broad bread A largo chunk of ice was was slowly melting ill in the water bucket on the stove and tho the coffee pot simmered over the blazo the shoop sheep gatli ored ered in around the clio wagon 0 the sunbeams bathed the mountain A ain peaks and died away 11 tho the supper 0 of f mutton onions and potatoes was soon disposed of and roll rolling ing some cigarettes tho the wo two brothers repeated pea ted the I 1 i r experiences during the three years they had bad been apart frank F ind 1 I d beobi to montana a punching cos cons and ian i aligning aliening ching but had decided to return and stay with his mother and brothers brot liers for awhile awl iilo ills his adventures had been very jiu numerous and lost nothing in ill the telling when they got sleepy they turned in ill ai I 1 were soon dreaming aliling b of other tir and pi acao in in an hour or io prod fred heard lo 10 f jingle of tho alio bells and tho the bleating 0 tho the lambs running from tho the bed ground ho he know that coyotes and other wild animals were around and feared that they wore among the sheep so in two jumps lie ho was in liis his shoos and out of tho wagon 0 without pants or coat sending t his dogs 0 round around one way fred started tho other tho night was very dark and lie he could hardly distinguish anything all at a groat great figure seemed to spring before him with outstretched paws fred stopped but lie ho did not stop long As soon its as possible lie ho turned and went faster than over ill in tile the opposite direction he thought thou glit he could hear the panting boast beast in pursuit pursuit suddenly something 0 struck ebin him a hard blow and with a torri terrified fied yell ho he foll fell on the gro ground tind CONTINUED N NEST EXT WEEK |