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Show MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA. UTAH lay, January 29, 1937 E1 ECBNS VUFPEM rp CHar1an HalcKer. f"1 turned hack ami was followed by the 'others Iqto the pen, CjntliUi dosed the bars. That's better," she aald, and thi dog niuxxled her band. a calm and easy life, Sheep li don't theyi-Slie- p? Neer much to bother them worse than your bark inothertes that wouldnt hurt Iamb If be Just knew 1l And aj ways somebody to see that they bare food and water, Th women always water the sheep; there Bible for thaL And come to think of It the Bible women nlwaya met tbelr men at the well a hen they Let's see: watered tbelr aheep. there waa ltebekab and Bucket and 1 wonder If Jethros daughter it htould be better to be watering a flock of scared ewes, just putting up tha last bar Uke tbla for in stance, and the stranger from an other land would come up the path and see you and aay be bad come from a far place to And you and could be water your flock for you? No, I still think It would be better to b by the pear treewliha sprig of blossom In your hand, fur Ukely as not all tha allly lambs would atnrUma-IfiIt jute tili i body .couldnt bear wbat he waa saying." When h bad reached the end of that dream, ah fouud bertmif back in th barnyard a llttje daxed In her mood of ldl and purpose-leawandering, and there rams rushing back to her the vision of Sparrel disappearing lu th dawn with Jasper, and of Jesse riding away on a audden notion. The unbalance returned and ahe followed It through the sweet-potatpatch whert the planta wer beginning to trail the Bandy earth with Blender green tentacles, and down to th creek. Ther waa satisfaction In thla kind of Idleness, the cowa In the quiet of afternoon under chestnut tree atarlng Into the great peace beyond the world of wearied CHAPTER VI flesh. Eh drifted without baste seemed emptied to to the spars clump of willows where WOLFPEN when Sparrel and the water ceased flowing over the Jesse and Jasper had ridden out serrated slats bottom and lapsed Into the profound peace of the mill of It Or, perhaps, the feel of emptiness dam. Does running water like to slip was only tha moment of nnusual stillness between the tumnlt of day- Into the pool and stopband Jle break and th lot ely, cadenced si- down like a tired ewe, or doe It lence of a mountain farm when try to get away again and run people were not about: tufted ord- down to tha mill and tumble with big wheel, clasping Its paddle inal! flashing red among the cher- tb ry blossoms and scattering liquid and pulling It around while the wanotes on tha morning like a flutter ter eases Itself down to the creek-be- d again Uke Jess swinging to of released petal spiraling to the ground; bleating lambs leaping ntrv th ground from th top branches onsly and awkwardly about the lot of a yonng sapling. I guess Its still daxed and bewildered by the Uka aheep and people, that way, new and unfamiliar world Into and sometimes Ukea to lie quiet which they had suddenly, been and sometimes likes to pull on a wheel and go some place else Just dropped. to be where you're not to the house went nhe back Slowly The shepherd, springing before and put tha kitchen In order. Julia willow-tre- es, gave had gona out to her garden. Abral her around the low growl and retreated a step. had disappeared Into ona of the hol- a lows The wonted equilibrium was Cynthia looked. It was nothing even more upset' within, tnd nhe more startling than a blarksnake, could feel the fragments moving and that was nothing at all because Sparrel always kept one In the about her Into new arrangements. corn-crito catch mice. But while on and the sat went She npstslrs was ahe speaking this to heryet orfoot ot her bed looking out ou the chard. "Tbo world looks different self, she felt her stomach tighten to n body when yon look out of aa Involuntarily and a wave of sickness gripped her abdomen and conupstairs window. Wbat would It be tracted up Into her throat The like If you were always above It aa black thick reptile was In the act down In high aa a house Instead of of swallowing a coppered colored It as low as a man tnd looked over with blua warts on Its back. an orchard In bloom the way you toad bad It already lucked Into its gulIn June? Would look over a cornfield let both twitching hind legs, and you still feel a bit twisted out of th lubricating allme from It exshape Inside because of the way tended month was oozing oat In your folks and things move about whit Troth to engulf the quivering In the bottoms?-- ! feel like nn bethe and front legs trembling throat. ing pulled by something that is The glassy eyes of the terrified moving around the place and taking toad bulged out In a death panic. me with It, and I guess I'll just go. seemed to Cynthia that they It It was the smell of the orchard were fastened upon her, and she surging through the window and became th suffering animat, endid wind the with that retreating toad with her own rethe pulling. She wandered down dowing the her own legs envulsions, feeling among the apple trees where the gulfed and absorbed Into the repbees were diving in the golden tile. dust la the pollen centers, and the She picked up a stick and punched gray-blu- e .catbirds were fluttersnake on the neck. Fright sudthe no sound with the through ing seized 1L In a trickle of slime denly branches. The wavering bleat of a young it ejected the toad, and slid In terlamb ran over the jagged shingles ror back Into the hashes across the of tha barn roof and broke Into path. Cynthia controlled the pang of nausea as she watched the par pieces about her. That reminded her of Jesse's charge and she went alyzed toad try to move Its helpundown to the barn and leaned over less legs. She pushed It gently der a ledge In the rock bank and the bars of the sheep-lo- t By the door In tha ann lay like a piece of left It there. She stood for a moment where dond a little pile of white fleece, and on the wall was stretched the she had aat watching the bubbles raw bide to dry before It went on and the minnows, relaxing bnt still There to Sparrele tanning vat Tha sight disturbed and breathless. of these things made her heart now, Cynthia Pattern, what are yon heavy with the thought of birth going to do and think next, anyand death. way? Why did yon go and do that? ewes In The the lot were placid Snakes bate to live too; and you with tba weight and experience of bat to see auch things but still timeless and agelesa yearn of bear- they go on all tha tlm and yon It It ing and being bora. Their uncon- dont think anything about cern for the lambe was for tb mo- mast b the seeing of It" And tryment monumental They lay Incom- ing to shake off the revulsion, she shuddered and ran down to the mill plete tranquillity under the nun as though their energy had fled them again. Sba tossed the stick Into Wolf-peand wan now leaping again la the watching It float away toward new spindly legs of th offspring. Sba went quietly down to the Gannon creek. One end canght on lower barn, and when she bad slow- rock and stood while the other curly drawn them wlthont disturbing moved slowly aronnd with the the calm which was on the sheep, rent and set It free. Sh followed she drove them down to tho creek It through th Y Meadow and Into to .water them. The shepherd Gannon where It gathered speed hounded offjtrofesslonally down the and soon disappeared around the fence and across Wolfpen to pre- bend. vent the aheep from Mattering. Laagnag of Joan They hovered on the edge of the creek la hesitation, lifting doubtful While scholars are not agreed as heads toward Cynthia and then to the language spoken by Jesus, It taring at tha dog. Bo was alert la generally supposed that It waa but motionless. Then' one of the the Galilean dialect of tbp Aramaic oldest ewes accepted biro and went or Syriac language, a corrupted down Into the water and drank. The form of the Hebrew proper. This whole flock drank and theiTTalsed was the language of the commow their beads to look again, letting people, while Hebrew remained the a trickle of water dribble from the learned and sacred language of the tuft of fleece onder their throats. Jew and Greek were Both The urn ewe started to cross the also used In Palatine pnrtli-elnrlcreek, but the shepherd lowered by the Bomun rulers autl tlieVtrad-Inhie head and barked, and she classes, i "and you pay the wages against th price of the land." The tension re.. ted, there was a pause, and Shellenberger said, more naturally and pleasantly, Youre robbing and cheating me, Ur. Pattern, but Ill do It And we'll get a man over there as soon as possible. Do you know anybody?" I've beard of a good man down at Catlettsburg." What's hla name? "Warren." "Ill see him when I go down tomorrow nod send him np If 1 can and HI be hack In here In a couple of weeks or no." Aa Sparrel walked through the aqnare, greeting the men, talking of the crops and the price of cattle, the feeling that ha bad made a good bargain with the extra dollar sustained him In the backwash of doubt that followed tha Important and Irrevocable decision. Jasper wss already at the stable. Jesse, with the book under his cost came breathlessly with leog'stridea through the open doors just aa Hardin Slusser brought the mules from the stalls. Did yoO tnake outj all Tight?" Sparrel asked. I got what I came for," Jesse said, mounting. , "You know we got au extra male here," Jasper said. It aeema like a waste Ju6t to lead her, Bardin spattered. Jasper bad no retort He swnng Into the saddle. Then as Sparrel mounted and started to go without saying anything, Hardin Could wait no longer for the newa. "Did yon trade any with that feller. Sparrel?" I figure I may do some business with him, later on," Sparrel said. He rode out of the stable and down the road followed by Jasper and Jesse. ' SYNOPSIS 'a 17SS 81 Fatten of Virginia ne Into tbo beautiful virgin coun-- t ot the Big Sandy valley la btucky. Chief of the perlla were I Shawnee, who nought to bold ,lr Unde from the erer-encroac- From a huge pinnacle ul gaaod upoa the fat bottom and acres of forest la Its prl-vI endless quietude at the moutb of the olfpen, and felt an eagerness to sesa It, declaring It a place Ot f a man to LIVE Ini Flvo years er be returned wltb Barton, bis son, and built a rude hla. la Saul's absence the Inins attacked Barton and wounded m so badly Baul was forced to n wltb him to Virginia. la 17SI, sen It was reasonably aafe, Saul turned wltb bis family and a pat-- it for 4.069 acres, this time to y. He added to the cabin, planted ops and fattened bis stock oa the lh meadow. Soon other settlers flved. A century Uter, la the w Ond Cynthia Pat-tting of ISOS, of the fifth generation follow-- g Saul, perched on th pinnacle ora which her bad first viewed Wolfpen Botin s. Th valleys, heretofore by the waves of change reeplng th Republic, are at last ginning to feel that restless surge, er dad, Sparrel, and her brothers, sse, Jasper and Abral, convert th I water - wheeled mill to steam wer. Cynthia feels that something it of th past has been burled with tul. Cynthia Is pretty and Imagine-V- e miss In her Ut teens, who oft created Saul and her other fore-tar- s, and fancied them still living. arrel proudly bring bom the rat meal out of the steam milt, and tlla, hla wife, U pleased. Genera-o- n after generation has added com. irts and conveniences to Saul's and 8parrI ba not emestead, iklrked. The family goes easily Into k work of th new season, due to of Uf designed long it simplicity go on th Wolfpen. Joy U abun. ant. Jess plans to study Uw. A iranger, Bhellsnberger by name, ernes to Wolfpen, Intent on buying tmber. Sparrel refuse hi offer, hellenberger tells of progress la tb utslde world. Wltb th advent of hellenberger some Intangible alteration seem to affect ho atmosphere of Wolfpen. Spar-- el decides to sell timber land to ellenberger. whites. al re-r- n, gan, and have an office and clients to plead for. Be was absorbed beThe mornyond all disturbance. ing passed, midday came and went without suggesting food, and the dream and the book full of strange and puullng words like libelant gnd argumentum and homtnem absorbed him Into the middle of the afternoon. Then be came to, seeing that the square was emptying of horses and men. Be got stiffly to' his feet, placed the book awkwardly under his coat and hurried down to the stable for the long ride back to Wolfpen. 'When Sparrel detached himself from bis boys, he walked by the bank and the three stores, greeting the men he knew, and up to the corner of the Gibson Bouse. The thing Sparrel had made his mind up to, now wavered within him, and Instead of going In at once, he turned and went back down the street, greeting the men In the square, and watching the horse traders riding up and down the street before the skeptical customers. He went on around the court house square, slowly traversing Its four sides banked with - horses and saddle mules hitched to the rails, and came up to the Gibson House from the opposite direction, and then, as though the destined moment had arrived, he lifted his head above the press of men and walked straight into the lobby of the Gibson Bouse. Shellenberger was sitting In a chair with his legs crossed and one foot resting on the shelf of th bay window, smoking, looktng not at the dls-rbl- I r CHAPTER V Continued -7- - .Yes. I want to know law and i a lawyer Uka you." gn Not much before fall I dont kon till things about the place fe up In shape. But I thought Yes, I Want to Know Law and a Lawyer Llk You." Bo - How much schooling have you square but above It Into the timad, Jesse? mountains. Be looked the J"A rtgb smart Five winters at bered o tem- I- annon Creek schoot And then Ve read all Dads books over and always read the Cincinnati Week' Curette. "Well, now, I dont hardly know, seC Tandy walked about the m impressively. I thought 1 you'd agree to It I mid take one of your books over ime and get started some before - 41." "Well, Jesse, Ill tell you. If youve ade up your mind to follow the iw. Ill be glad to have you. Things f slack right now, but theyre go-i- g to pick op before long around ere. I'm getting practice down he river now and Itll be bandy to ave somebody here la the office.1 T11 be much obliged to you,' esse said. . . Dont mention It Tandy showed him some of the tw books and told him bow they fere arranged la series and how ou found by number the statute jod judgments on s easei And res a brand-ne- book. I aint ven read myself. Yon take It and k ead It It's the of the .. tody of law." Be placed la Jesses bands th edition of Blackstone's Jooley Commentaries on the Laws of Sngland, with reference notes to English and American decisions and Aatutes to date 1884? and some Considerations regarding the study Y th law. . Jess spilled the folios from his Ap, and took Into his plow harmed hands the unopened volume f law. . After a while he found himself up by th fence (round the high grounds of the Institute above the crowded town. He sat on a log in th son, his eyes moving from th book down to the e steeple and the wharf, hen back to the book, projecting hlnuwlf into the day when he would e a great lawyer like Tandy klor bed-roc- bed-roc- k ourt-hous- t Items of Interest to the Housewife The corduroy clothes ao lar with young people will populaun- P people like this combination especially well der easily, if washed in mild soap end plenty of warm water. Rinse When making muffins In iron well, shake and hang up to dry. pans grease and heat pans in oven before putting in batter. Muffins When baking candied swret po- will then be much lighter. tatoes turn them frequently to permit even browning. Melted butter added to the batter for pancakes prevents them Salted peanuts, freshened by from sticking to the pan. It also beating in bven, are very good helps to make them th golden served with chocolate sauce on brown of the perfect pancake. vanilla ice cream. The young WNU Berrte. AaMckUe Newspaper- ... ( - Mistake-O-Grap- h I. Picture I hong npsld Sewn. L Mirror doe not reflect proper tmf a. A Calendar reeds 1839. 4. Gentleman coat 1 mlafl- l. He he dear in mouth and another in hi hand. . Tailor he shortened tho (leev e to whet ho eyi he he don. T. Overalls are advertised a business suit. A Can has wheels. . "Tailor maid I misspelled. 10. Sign advertise sal of trouser kgw II. Nudists do not patronize tailor (hop. IX. Iran 1 suspended in midair. U. Cord is attached to bottom of Iron. 14. Full dress suit in etgn 1 a batfatob. g 15. Gentlemen in foreground are themselves. on-tra- I -- Motra-dictin- a o t b Tandy atudled bim as though bo ere about to aeat a juror. jpWell Do you honest?" "1 aure do. I Just wondered if Oud take me Into your office here Itb you and help me learn law. I tight be- - able to help you a right Hart looking up things for you jid writing papers." Bis eagerness founted with the words and qulv- ' his throat now, 1 dont hardly know, WheiL-wou.you want to ld t HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS Answers to the part of a porarily well-to-d- Isolated atranger In a mountain town. There was no one else In the room. Shellenberger stood up, and extended his hand In eager hospitality. Good morning, Ur. Pattern I" Howdy, Sparrel said reservedly. Well, how are you this morning?" "Well as common," Sparrel said, and then calmly In his Slow voice with the melody In It, You got around all right, I see." I got sround all right, thanks to your mulA' What do I owe you for the us of Nothing at all, nothing at aff. Glad to acrommodat you." "Smoke?" Shellenberger offered s cigar. No, but much obliged to you." They sat down. "A good deal of trad on th rivers." Yea. PlkevIIle Is a right town now," Sparrel said. And It win get better as this region opens uii." The subject was ready to be brought Into the open, but Sparrel was still. Then Shellenberger ; plunged. Well, Ur. Pattern, 1 rode by that It may not be lower timber-land- . as good as I Brat thought, but I'll stick to the proposition I' made. What do you say about It? "I don't guess I can do it," Sparrel said. You mean yon wont sen I" exclaimed. That's about wbat It amount to." "But why not. Pattern, why not? four dollars an acre Is a big price. Well, what do you want for It? bt demanded resolutely. Five dollars an acre. Shellenberger smoked, making short puffs, and twisting tb cigar. You'D have It surveyed by a competent man?" 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Licensee 30-d- ay Mistake-O-Grap- h , to at the Always Immaculate and dr cried hi the height f fashion, nr budding young .artist stopped up tb crease to hla pants. While L.rre he drew this sketch of hla surrounding Ther are IS mistakes to hla drawing. Can you find them? The answers will bo found above. erner tailor shop to sharpen |