Show HEARS RUMBLINGS OF THE MOUNTAINS PLAINLY william H bassett came back re bently from an extended trip out in the west mountains where tor for a month he has been assessing sheep while in the house range and al so 30 in the contusion confusion range billie heard the rumblings of the moun bains this time he says the noises were not sharp not cracking not loud reports but more gentle like the giving of surfaces sur facea slightly in a stress but he says the tremor of them was distinctly noti noticeable cable for instance one night he and a sheep herder were awakened in a camp wagon by a tremor of it just as if someone had mounted the wheel pr or was climbing in they remarked about it and at first the camp tend er said oh that s just the dog jumping up on the wagon but it wasn gasn t and then they tell fell to discussing it and finally after the sheepherder found that billy knew and it wasn gasn t superstition then he feied up that he had known of em tor for twenty years had heard em and felt era em but until billy reassured his bedmate that it wasn gasn t super supers sti tl tinon and something uncanny there was no getting the man to admit he knew of them there is something uncanny un natural creepy to hear a something or feel a something that you are scared of that you don t know tor for feure cure that the other fellow really did hear or feel it or if you yourself simply bugs and only thought you heard or felt it A man isn t any i too sure on the marvelous the weird the unnatural maybe it was and the than a again maybe it wasn gasn t so when billy convinced his man that he too heard and felt it then the ice was broken and the man told read ily ly all he knew said had heard em or fait felt em tor for twenty years said it made him creep up his back bone and gave him the shivers and then told how others fellows had said it if ever I 1 git out 0 this damned place with all its raps and I 1 in never coming bade back and such like remarks tor for he said the men were scared of it the man said when bad one could hear the windows in the sheep wa gon rattle and that in a cup would be slopped over and the dishes shifted in position oer the table top it if that isn t enough to give a men the gin then id I 1 d like to know what is barclay john who was listening to our talk said that he even knew of at a case in which the light was put out outi just simply jiggled out barzilay BarC ilay said it scared hell out of us or something hike like that who could blame em sitting in a sheep wagon fifty miles from nowhere not a soul around all alone and an unseen hand jiggles the wag on makes the earth talk like a se ance of spirits rapping and if the creeps don t run up and down your spine it a not bravery but ed ness not enough brains in the old bean to shiver the horses and dogs become uneasy shift about the dog will low ly growl the horse look up and around to see the newcomer whose noise of approach they hear the men become silent and everybody Is just plain honest to goodness SCARED it Is a most interesting thing I 1 never grow tired of hearing experiences with the noises or with the barth arth bli akings some of these daya days the rocks will give a big distance in the contact between lime and granite and there will twill be a regular heman he man onan t an earthquake a j old mother nature is talking to baj us and complaining grieving over her lot and muttering all the time that some day shell she 11 throw it off and when she does say maul mant what a shaking up there will twill be |