Show the old settler 0 my dear san jua ners when a certain wayfaring man with whom you are slightly acquainted quain ted awoke one morning and merged from under the tarpaulin he discovered that he ha had left his pants too near to the campfire camp fire the night before that a spark had blown onto them and they were ei in ashes he had to meet an embarrassing barr assing emergency 1 that aft einson when he met some of his friends and their wives coming on the mountain for a vacation his emergency became very acute he could not yield to his quick impulse to vanish in the oak brush for that would only complicate the situation I 1 the years admonish me that emergencies are the spice of life some of them are embarrassing some bitterly distressing but they constitute a kind of intermittent examination which we have to pass if we make the grade generally they have to be met in a way never heard of before in northern arizona a certain woman had fits of homesickness ess to see her mother in northern utah and she felt so miserable about it and made everybody else feel so miserable that the bishop took up a donation and sent a man and team to take her to see her mother but her fit of homesickness had changed to a fit of resentment at some imaginary ill treatment and she informed the man that she had changed her mind and would not go the bishop used the money for ward maintenance and to help needy people in the ward but it was no more than gone till the woman began pining and whining ani making baking a great fuss again about going to see her mother she kicked up such a dickens of a rumpus that the bishop took up another collection and sent another man to take her to her people in the north again her fit had changed and she told him indignantly dign antly that she had changed her mind and would not go again the bishop used the money for charitable purposes and figured that the matter was settled this time for good but again he began hearing reports about how she must go and see her mother he lasslow was slow and reluctant about asking for another collection till some of her ber n neighbors offered to head the list w with th a liberal donation to be relieved yew rew of the protests and lamentations they had to hear they got a third donation and the bishop a resourceful kind of man considered carefully and selected for a teamster this time an old indian fighter who always met the emergency sometimes resorting to ways that had never before been heard of when the old indian fighter drove up to her gate and sent his boy in to tell her that he was ready she sent word back that she had changed her hear mind and would not go well sir said the old man frowning studiously ive handled sow pigs before and leaving the boy to hold the lines he went in and carried the woman out bodily loaded her and her children whether orno or no into the wagon and took her away to visit her mother ALBERT R LYMAN |