Still, It Was Most Exasperating
To Have Such An Unnecessary Upheaval, Just At The Very Time We Had A
Guest In The House - A Dainty, Fastidious Little Woman, Too - And Wanted
Things To Move Along Smoothly.
I wonder of what nationality the next
trial will be!
If one gets a good maid out here the chances are that
she will soon marry a soldier or quarrel with one, as was the Case
with Hulda. For some unaccountable reason a Chinese laundry at Sun
River has been the cause of all the Chinamen leaving the post.
Now I must tell of something funny that happened to me.
The morning before Mrs. Hughes arrived I went out for a little ride,
and about two miles up the river I left the road to follow a narrow
trail that leads to a bluff called Crown Butte. I had to go through a
large field of wild rosebushes, then across an alkali bed, and then
through more bushes. I had passed the first bushes and was more than
half way across the alkali, Rollo's feet sinking down in the sticky
mud at every step, when there appeared from the bushes in front of me,
and right in the path, two immense gray wolves. If they had studied to
surprise me in the worst place possible they could not have succeeded
better. Rollo saw them, of course, and stopped instantly, giving deep
sighs, preparing to snort, I knew. To give myself courage I talked to
the horse, slowly turning him around, so as to not excite him, or let
the timber wolves see that I was running from them.
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