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Show THE ZEPHYRJAN-FE- B had done their mischief so they were good for the rest of the day. Noon came and went Vee played in the water where it spread out over some sand bars. It was very warm. We built sand castles and die dept for awhile. Finally mid afternoon Bob came. His day had been rough too. The horses had scattered and by the time he had rounded them up and returned to camp and found it as it had been when he left It. He was very worried. I always packed things away and I hadn't this time. As I said, that was a day and I always marveled at that little girl because she never cried. Her only demand was that I tell her the story of Peter Rabbit and she never tired of it. She learned all the nursery rhymes I could never remember. These she would tell me in exchange for Peter Rabbit After a few days Bob took the work horses back to Lisbon Valley to get the wagon. He had to take it and the car to La Sal. He had Vee with him. She stayed in the car until he drove the wagon a mile or two, then he returned to the car and drove it past the wagon. It was a lot of miles to take two outfits. ' He brought the horses back to the sheep camp the next day. Vee was used to riding with us on the horses so she was no trouble. One day Bob was doing something around camp and I walked up the wash to see what had . frightened some sheep back. I went around the bend and came face to face with a big lynx. It made a lunge at me and I got away from there fast. It had one paw in a trap, the other end of the chain was caught in a tree stump. Bob shot the animal. He had not set any traps in Coyote Wash. We had to be home by the last of September, therefore we did not stay long in any one place, but kept the sheep on good grass and plenty of water. Finally it was time to go home so Bob went to Moab to get someone to drive our car home. He did not want to do any more walking between wagon and car. He also decided it was best if he drove the team and let me drive the sheep. Once again I was in camp by myself for a few days. One evening I was bringing the sheep to the bed ground and passed close to a big tree. The most awful wail came out of it Should I see what it was or run? I did not run, I investigated. It was a big owl That night the sheep were restless. I started to go out to check on them. The dog did not agree with me. She turned her bade to the door and growled. I thought, well, she knows best. I loaded the gun and tied the door or tent flaps as they were called as tight as I could then went to bed. What else was there to do? The little dog came dose to my bed and that was usuaL I slept well and in the morning I went out to see what had been there to scare her so. The tracks said a lion. The thing that puzzled me and still does was the mice, birds, kangaroo rats and even a lizard the lion had left against the bade of the tent Why? I left them there and when Bob reached camp about midday he looked at the collection and said "the lion was a good hunter but as we were leaving it could eat its catch from now on" - r It was nice to get home and have a board floor to walk on. When Mary saw me she was surprised to see I was pregnant; 4 12 months. The Doctor had told them I could not have any more babies. Bob trailed the sheep to Thompson with Boyde Hammonds once again, and while he was in Thompson he borrowed $800 from John Jackson to buy more sheep. Aunt Marne stayed with me to care for Vee. It rained for three days, and all the dry washes were running with water. The second day when the sheep crossed the creek, it was high, but when I brought them back that afternoon, I had to find a wide place for them to cross, and as I reached the bank with the last of them, I looked up the creek and watched a wall of water come around the bend. I did not let them cross the creek again for a few days. Bob returned and prepared to go to Kayenta for more sheep. I was doing dishes that morning and Bob was shaving. Why he emptied his shave water into my dish pan I did not know, but my reaction was fast. I picked up the dish pan with some of the dishes in it, went to the door and threw them all out into the yard, including the dish pan. It was done before I even thought. He picked them up and I felt as foolish as he looked. Unde Heber Murphy went to Kayenta with Bob to get 150 three year old ewes. They were gone almost three weeks and the weather was bad for most of that time. The snow was deep around Blanding and Monticello. Bob drove the sheep all the way an foot and he had no overshoes until he sent Unde Heber into Monticello for some. Unde Heber was driving the car with all the camp outfit in it and he was supposed to hurry back and set up camp, but being a friendly soul and knowing so many Monticello people, well, he got to the place they had agreed on camping 2 a.m. in a blizzard. Bob had a fire going under a tree. He was too mad and hungry to freeze. Their relationship was below zero, and it never did get very high after that A Navajo Indian had helped Bob drive the sheep the first three days. They shared their tent with him, and he shared his lice with them. When they readied home they bathed outside and put their dothes in a tub of boiling water before coming inside. I had my troubles too while they were gone. Annie was staying with me to herd the sheep. For three days there was a blizzard. I knew the country, the horse, and the sheep better. I knew the horse would go home if I let him and the sheep would go to the bed ground I was afraid Annie would get lost. Riding was very difficult for me; I was about 6 months pregnant. Yes, 1928...that was a year forme to remember. After Christmas I stayed with Mary in Moab; Jack was working at Indian Creek and was seldom home. She had an apartment over what was then the Post Office. I thought I would lay around awhile until I felt better, then I would go back to the sheep camp. The baby had other 1994 PAGE 15 ideas. He was bom Jan.16, 1929, just one month too soon. He got sick and also developed a hernia as Vee did. I would not recommend a premature baby to anyone. I had nothing to do with the naming of my two oldest children. Mary insisted on the name Robert, and Bob said no, William, bo the baby got both. Robert William Muir. I thought it all so very funny, and I enjoyed their arguments. So did they. When the baby was 2 weeks I went back to foe sheep camp. It was in an impossible place Amasa Back and I had to ride horseback with my two children up over a rough trail. near up The snow was about a foot deep. We did not stay there long, but moved back down near Blue Hill. Mary came to the camp to bring some groceries and I think she wasworried about the baby. A storm came up snowing hard and drifting, so she had to stay the night. It was bitterly cold and by the time we made her bed down beside ours, the tent was full, but we were snug and sleeping soundly when suddenly something landed on top of us. There was a lot of commotion too. Bob struck a match and there was an old Navajo sheep standing right over us. However she got in the tent we did not know. It seemed to be fastened down tight Mary woke up before the commotion started and she could hear something breathing right over her head. She thought it might be a bear (bears are not out that time of year) or some other wild animaL She did not know what to do so she reached up and touched it on bare skin. No wool was there. It was as startled as she was, so it jumped onto us. Bob put foe sheep out and we all had a good laugh. We all survived the deep snow and cold of 1929. March was not bad and we sheared the sheep the first part of ApriL Aunt Marne, (Mary Duncan) came to help with foe cooking and tend the children while I was out with the sheep. Uncle Felix always helped with foe shearing. He would shear only 100 sheep each day; if he got his hundred by 3 o'clock, that is when he stopped. Bob had learned to shear, and as he did everything, he sheared fast too. Archie (Sketer) Stocks was foe other man who sheared that spring I herded foe sheep and helped Aunt Marne as much as I could. I nursed my baby over three hours but one day I let foe sheep get too far away and I was gone for six hours. When I returned Aunt Marne was walking foe floor with the baby and they were both crying. The sheep never got that far away again. Aunt Marne stayed with us until after the lambing. I always herded the ewes with the new bom lambs. We had between 700 and 800 head of sheep in foe herd. Some were Aunt Marne's and about 150 belonged to Roy and Lee Larson. We took our sheep to Dry Valley that summer. It rained almost every day, so the grass was almost to foe horses knees and all foe animals were fat. The lambs grow fast. There were hundreds of wild horses running back in the country beyond Hatch Wash. While we were camped by Jug Rock and Hatch Rock, we never tired of watching them. We got a better price for our lambs that fall. Bob paid John Jackson $100 on foe note, and bought a big black faced buck that was mean. I was scared of him and had to watch him all the time if I was around foe sheep unless I was riding We had some ewes that had some early lambs and I went to foe shed of the corraL I couldn't out run him to the fence, so I stood still and watched him. He backed up and made a run at me, but stopped just short of hitting me. The third time I knew he was not going to stop, so I stepped aside and a big ramboulet buck caught him and knocked him for a loop. I ran. Bob made a deal with Roy Larson to pasture our bucks and Lee Larson who lived on La Sal Creek took our mule to pasture. Bob planned on breaking him foe coming summer. Things seemed to be going well for us and we hoped by the time Vee started to school we would have enough sheep so we could hire a sheep herder. We had foe sheep camp at Flat Pass. Bob went to the homestead every day to work on the corrals while I cared for foe sheep. He had consigned the wool (that is an advance on the wool) -$350. The rest was to be paid when the wool was delivered at Thompson. He bought some lumber to make shearing pens, bought wool sacks, string to tie them, and new sheep shears. We had $300 left in the bank when everything was ready to start the shearing April 12, 1930 I packed the camp and Bob loaded it on the wagon. I helped him because he was sick and could hardly get around. He went on to our place, I kept the kids with me. I headed the sheep for home a little early because I was so worried about him. He had a high fever and was on the bed. I wanted to take him to foe hospital then. He would not go. 1 set up the sheep camp outside in the yard and fixed a meal for the kids and me. I put foe kids to bed in the camp. They never saw him again. He was so hot and I tried to cool him off by giving him plenty of water to drink. By then I knew he had typhoid fever. The morning of April 13, 1930 Clarence Tangren came riding by and I asked him to get word to my folks that Bob was sick. He checked on the sheep. I never went near them that day. Early next morning one of my uncles came to take over foe sheep and soon after foe Doctor arrived. He would have been there sooner but he was out of town. They made a bed in foe back of the Doctor's jar to take Bob to the hospital. I followed in our car, a Maxwell Coup. I took the kids to Dad then went on to the hospital. Bob lived until 11 o'clock that night. April 14, 1930. He had walking typhoid pneumonia. In the March issue: Verona starts over. a&ic RSAT Y Western Plaza 59 S. Main 259-44CDs Tapes 05 Cards WINTER HOURS: Man-Sa- t. 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