Show t That terrible sch chool of bus bua trag trag- edy at Greeley Creeley Colo brought home ome an experience of ot my youth which In retrospect seems elthor either comical l or sad Take your pick Three of Us lis In high school io took k a hobo trip one summer lummel after harvest You Vou didn't do anything until afUr after harvest because that's that when In III the you made enough x i rv rt t ti i si sito j oi o i r. r 1 1 I t to keep you ou In spending mone money money the next school year We left lett from Wray Colo end and bummed d to Denver Deliver tm bit th the Burlington Bur fiur lington then switched to the tho UnIon Union Un UnIon ion Pacific We got rousted at atIt 1 I Greeley It wa was August and we spent the night In an empty box boxI boxcar boxcar car In the Or Greeley railroad yards tard I Early next morning we ve nit hit a northbound freight to Cheyenne Wyo and there the die tr at the edge of ot town lawn and a 11 whole cloud of bulls butts worked the train from stem etem to stern Yo You never saw Jaw so eo many bums In your life Including tie us The They made us u. w walk lk all I Iway the way to the police station and put us UI through the line up Here nere we were were gone gone from nice homes only two days day and already al In ID Jail Ja Jail Most of ot the bOM boes were old pros proa who had work worked d In the harvest est and wore were headed elsewhere They na 4 1 N were tough right at home In th pokey poUt t Ie w wad J JOur Our first tiNt expert ence ente You Vou ne Saw lAw such a dirt ditty dirty Jail jaU In do your life Ilfe literally crawling crawl crawlIng ing No doubt Cher Cheyenne has bas a avery avery ver very nice e now Now get this Somebody had bad broken into the country school Chool at Delta Vetta near hear Greeley the night be be- fore tore They had J. J popped the safe and cleaned it Il out The bulls were picking up everybody everybody- everybody c rial road bobOt us Delta I is 9 the l school school for for Which that bus was heading Thursday Probably bly the grandfather of I j 1 one of those hose kids bought me a bowl of soup In reeley Greeley Because Be Be- e- e cause I 1 was hungry and broke and trying to get gel to Spokane for formy formy formy my dear deal sisters sister's funera fullers 1 soup coup was only a dime I Now the reason I 1 was working that tilde Bide of ot the street In Greeley Creeley was because we wo had decided to tomake tomake make mak our ten bucks go gp as tar far tu su possible We took al along I only 1000 0 apiece and we verj verI widely elY and carefully hid the money in inside In in- side aide our socks We were pl playing It real cool The first t place any thief would have looked after rolling us would have ave been inside the socks nocks I It Is Ii amazIng if It there I Is a Jig big lg bowl of crackers and plenty I I of at catsup on the cou counter counter- te how far a bowl of at soup will go Vat Yot i ta to try It ft some lome time 1 I Meanwhile back at the jail jail We got Into a fight in fn the tank lank 1 Real nasty Somebody called mo me Baby Daby lace when i l. resented a I patting paddy from a burly bum and the smash was on My pals Harry and Harvey got cut ut up a abit bit and I woo was temporarily cooled I by a club hlub when the guards came in swinging in all directions I They sorted us out and took us in for to questioning There was tome some dout a no 3 to whether three teen age kids s knew how to blow blow a safe but the sheriff Insisted we 1 I were just the type type angelic faced baby t With the blood running into his hie I ear I I. I We Up enough dough doughi i for a call caU to the sheriff at Wray f Colo Cob and he gave us a clean bill of health and promised not hot hotI notto I I to call caU the folks They turned I us loose and said I I I Dont Don't let the tho sun tun set on you r rin in Cheyenne enne wr Wyoming Which It But I 1 think that slier sher iff wanted iff-wanted wanted me for at t least 6 60 days That at night cro crossing Sherman Pass 6 in a side door Pullman I witnessed I-witnessed my first and nd only mur mur- i der Think IVe I've told you about about that If not holler About two w weeks eks later we N 1 must have come through Echo Henefer the Slide and Morgan I en ended ed up In Ogden I And dont don't know who the safe In In the tho school I I mouse bouse at Delta Colo I 1 Honest And my mv heart hurts for forthe I the parents of ot the Delta Della school I kids who will never grow up to toi I i take tak h hobo lio trips to Ogden Utah I |