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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1936)
FOL'HTKKN T II i: it o v v i \ Il I i: I» \ « » Il I M» M » I I ^ '" illlg j brciiU and the lonely cndelicts! «I Iciicc of a in*oiiiiuiu farm when ’«Id <v* {■copie were n**t about ; llifted car • ><* .0 *1 • ■ linai* ft-islilng red uiuong the eher By Harlan Hatcher " ,ur u Z ry blossoms ami scattering l|t| ti I • t "., 7 notes on the morning like « (latter * of released petal spiraling to the T Ik* ;*if ground : Ideating lamb« leaping m-iv »«ntB i„ J<*t olisly ami aw kw unity about the lot. "You nniiii >< m i wont s e ll:’ Shcl still dii/ed ami bewildered by the even reati myself. You take It ami SYN O PSIS i(Ai|i r m-w ami unfamiliar world Itilo *■ * iwqf read it. It's the bed rock of the len b erger «-velai im <1. ••'I h .it'» about w bat It «m ount to.* which (hey bail suddenly been In 17S5 Snut Pattern of Virginia study of law.” 11 "I of Ml, came Into ttie beautiful virgin ■ iun- ' B ; " k l lo t, P l I i f f D " !lI fi''* dropped lie placed in Jesse'« hands the try of the HI* Sandy valley in Cooley edition of lihi.-kston-'s I ••nr dollar* m nero Is a t it prh •' Slowly she went back lo tbe tmus<- hi ; Kentucky. Chief of the peril» were t® Mr fli ^ the Shawnee*. who sought to hold ••Commentaries on the Laws of | ''''¡I. "hat do you -*ant f*T iti he nml put (he kitchen In order Julia :U‘Ti'*-irliq I, l ad gone out (•• her garden Abrnl their lands from the ever-encroach England," with reference not«« t<> nenian<le<l resoliitely, Ith J ' ■ •tid -* ml (,* ing whites. From a huge pinnacle English and American decisions and •'Five dollars an acre.“ hud >11* ippenred Into one *>f the toil Saul gazed upon the fat bottoms and | ShellenlM-rger smoked, maklnit : • - |j lows The wonted equilibrium Was the endless acres of forest In its pri statutes to date (1SSI) and some short puff», and twisting the cigar. even more upset within, and sin- meval quietude at the mouth of the considerations regarding the study it I hr* Ugh the tstst -You'll have It surveyed by « could feel the fragments moving Wolfpen, and felt an eagerness to of the law. *'/W _ th* plant« Shellruberger I about her Into new arrangements possess it, declaring It a place lit man?" Colu|M-tent Jesse spilled the folios from Ids | coni|»etent for a man to LIVE In! Five years MW; " salii. She went up»tnlrs nml sat on the later he returned with Barton, his lap, nml took Into his plow ■ har gr* Ot«l In Itf ^ Sparrel sut*l. ! foot Ilf her tied looking out oil tile of "I'll .* ■ I r 1 him." dened hands the unopened volume flfteen-year-old son, and built a rude cabin. In Saul's absence the In of bed-rock law. After u while In- "and y*»u pay till- Ull g*-s against the chard “ I be world li*oks different dians attacked Barton and wounded found himself U[» by the fence * ,#f 1 LI " f the land to a body when you look out of an him so badly Saul was forced to re •pilrt Of aftevao^ The tension related, there was n upstair« window around the high grounds of ttie In What would it t**- turn with him to Virginia. In 1 7 1*6. ' lUrtKiafc when It was reasonably safe, Saul stitute above the crowded town. Il< pause, and Shellenberger said more j like If you were alwnv* above It ns »•>‘«»><1 t.>* «or* g returned with his family and a pat sat on a log in the sun, his eyes naturally ani pleasantly. ’ You’re high as a house Instead of down In ent for 4,000 acres, this time to moving from ttie book down to the robbing and cheating me. Mr Fat hhe drifted s.-y*; It ns low ns a man amt looked »ver t- > Di stay. He added to the cabin, planted '• ’"c ’.mpof t crops and fattened his stock on the court house steeple ami the wharf, tern, but I'll tlo It. Ami we ll get a I an orchard In blootn the way you t .- • ; J rich meadows. Soon other settlers then back to ttie book, projecting n in over t h m as toon as posalble |o<>k ovor a cornfield In June? vVo.M ■* ^ arrived. A century later, in the himself Into the day when he would I'o you know anyliody?" w u4 “ | you still feel a bit twisted out of spring of 1885. we And Cynthia Pat I pan i L 'I've beard of a good man down shape Inside to-* ause of ttie way be a great lawyer like Tandy Mor- tern, of the fifth generation follow ' dim ing Saul, perched on the pinnacle gan, and have an office and clients I at Catlettsburg " ' your folks and things move about I» "■ • HI!-! t •»!« .„r from which her great-great-grand to plead for. He was absorbed t»e- “What's his name?” I in tbe bottoms? I feel like I m be I Into father had first viewed Wolfpen Bot yond ull disturbance. 1 " ->l »M I'q gj ••W.irre.," The urnm Ing pulled by something that Is ! <]o*n toms. The valleys, heretofore un '• 1 urei fill 1 “I'll see him when I r n down to moving around the place and taking touched bv the waves of change Ing passed, midday came and went f try (o »«ay ijm J morrow and send him up if 1 cun without suggesting food, and the sweeping the Republic, are at last . tue with If. and I guess I II Just g o ” the mill beginning to feel that restless surge. dream and the hook full of strange ' and 1 II be back In here In u couple It was the »Midi of the orchard Dm big Wheel, rluplai t* Heh dad. Sparrel, and her hr «!i*rs, and puzzling words like lltielant of weeks or so.” i surging through the window amt -il. 1 I ...ug it iroaM ik* Jesse. Jasper and Ahral, convert the old water - wheeled mill to steam and argunientum and hominein ah | As Sparrel walked through the retreating with the wind Hint did 1 ter * .!*••« I'»elf d«»t t* !* power. Cynthia feels that something sorbed him Into the middle of the i square, greeting the tuen, talking the pulling. She wandered down • -1 .igjln. like Tu« out of the past has been buried with afternoon. Then he came to, see of the crops and the price of cattle. j among the apple trees where th«* Saul. Cynthia is pretty and imagina ing that the square was emptying !-"• g * ■ i '- from tu tq! I m i - s were diving In the golden tive miss In her late teens, who often n»’ • I 7*%' re-created Saul and her other fore of horses and men. He got stiffly dust In Hie |Hi|lefi centers, arid tin- I F ]••*' / /; • ■ •beep and peoplg flf bears. and fancied them still living. to his feet, placed the book awk 1 ♦ ' y\ * . * * gray blue catbirds w«-re flutter ! » •-‘.:».•-« ¡.in ti k Sparrel proudly brings home the wardly under bis coat and hurried 1.1' L Ing with no sound through the md - a« •.IJ.I-S l.kft :» |d first meal out of the steam mill, and down to the stable for the long Julia, his wife, is pleased. Clenera- i branchi*«. * ■ ;-!(*[ tion after generation has added com ride back to Wolfpen. / The watering bleat of a young to be » b*-re you r* not" forts and conveniences to Saul's laud» ran over the Jaggr I shingles homestead, and Sparrel has not When Sparrel detached himself I - * •. *rd. of the barn roof and broke Into shirked. The family goes easily Into from his boys, he wulke*] by the " * - » •*nJ pieces about b»-r. Th.vt reminded the work of the new season, due to j * !■ -v growl «od rrtmtfr the simplicity of life designed long | ''link and the throe stores, greeting h»-r of Jesse's charge and ah»* went ago on the Wolfpen. Joy Is abun •li*- men he knew, snd up to the ■ I i- ■ ».->1 I: *u " down to the barn um| leaned over dant. Jesse plans to study law. A corner of the Gibson House. The ! the liars of ttie shes-p !i t |!y the in- -« *' IrtHi.g that i f t stranger, Shellenberger by name, comes to Wolfpen, intent on buying thing Sparrel had made his mind up ■ door In (he sun lay like a piece of and !b it waa noCnti itdf • • •« kn»l «:* *! fW timber. Sparrel refuses his offer. to, now wavered within him. and In cloud a little pile of white fleece, Shellenberger tells of pregrt-s in the stead of going In at once, he turned I 2gi ami on the wail was stretched Du outside world. With the advent of and went back down the street, . ,i ,. ».-t . -••«»iar tui!“ ra w hide to dry before it weut on Shellenberger some Intangible dis jf, »be felt her itoaad turbing alteration seems to affect greeting ihe men In the square, and lo Xparrel'« tanning vat. Ttie sight IrivoMniarlly and i »in rf the atmosphere of Wolfpen. Spar watching the horse traders riding of these things made her lo-art rel decides to sell timber land to up and down the street before the ■ r.-r i' ! adMlj heavy with the tnought of birth Shellenberger. skeptical customers. He went on tr.i !*• I up Into her tin* and death. around the court - house square, 1 The ewes in the lot were placid slowly traversing Its four sides CHAPTER V— Continued of >. Mo.»lag • fOpi*v~^ with the weight ami Cl|»erletice of banked with hors«*s and saddle timeless nml ageless years of bear ton i with blue *»rt* « a "Yes. I want to know law and mules hitched to the rails, and came !?*;* ami being born. Their uncon It ha-1 ulreudy »wked lit* up to the Gibson House from the be a lawyer like you.” / » • s H fl, c»-rn for the land»» was for flu* m«> • ug . taw frw Tandy studied him as though he opposite direction, and then, as meni monumental. They lay In com though the destined moment had were about to seat a Juror. , plete tranquillity under the sun a» t.-i.-h- l lii uth n * -c-f^L arrived, he lifted his head b I hivp the “Well. Do you honest?” ! though tlu-lr energy had IldJ them vl • ■ " t" *'•*!■'’ * - : I th*' '!■•'!' • J “I sure do. I Just wondered if press of men and walked straight and was now leaping again In th<- - you’d take me Into your office here Into the lobby of the Gibson House. ; The glassy eye* of tkC splndly legs of the new offspring Shellenberger was sitting In a with you and help me learn law. I load bulged out I d * Xhe went quietly down to tin- might be able to help you a right chair wdth his legs crossed and one , 'Yes, I Want to Know Law and Be ! lower bars, and when «lie find slow ! ! t IMH* , .| to ( yothlz smart looking up things for you foot resting on the shelf of the bay a Lawyer Like You." ly drawn them without disturbing v. ere f:i*!et.e.! 0|s« *■ . ,. I tie suffer!of •' » and writing paj>er8.” His eagerness window, smoking, looking not at the the cairn which wan on the ni...... mounted with the words and quiv square hut above It Into the tim the fading that he bad made a she drove them down to ttie creek • I « ' “• " 3 bered mountains. He looked the good bargain with the extra dollar 1..M- ' » feeling h*f • " J ered in his throat. to water them. The shepherd “ Well, now, I don't hardly know, part of a well-to-do stranger tem sustained him In the backwash of bounded off professionally down the gulfed and *b»otbed m*»| til«- I Jesse. When would you want to porarily Isolated In a mountain doubt that followed the Important fence nml across Wolfpen to pr*- town. and Irrevocable decision. come?" She pl. ke.1 .ip * «tb'*' vent tbe iliw p from scattering. There was no one else In the room. Jas|K-r was already at the stable “Not much before fall I don't T h#-y hovered on the edge of tir- the snake * r, .be Shellenberger stood up, and ex Jesse, with the book under Ills coat, reckon till things about the place ’< 1 *n * \ * .P creek In hesitation, lifting doubtful *|.-r ! '*• ■ md th« toil are up in shape. But I thought tended bis hand In eager hospitality. came breathlessly with long strides heads toward t'ynthln and then “Good morning, Mr. Pattern!" if ” through the open doors Just ns Har staring at the dog. He was alert r, .r b*< k into the “Ilowdy," Sparrel said reservedly. din Slusser brought the mules from hut motionless. Then one of th** path Onthi. “How much schooling have you “ Well, how are you this morning?" the stalls. bad, Jesse?" oldest ewe* accepted him ami went Of nan«*'i. a. she “Well as common,” Sparrel said, “ Did yon make out all right?" down Into the water and drank. The „ly/.-,I I * ft ,r-V ‘‘A rigli smart. Five winters at m < Cannon Creek school. And then and then calmly in his slow voice Sparrel asked. whole flock drank and then rained h-s legs She |.n*h«l » ‘ ^ " I got what I came for," Jesse Ihelr heads I«» look again, letting der a ledge in th. rock *** 1 ve read all Dad's books over and with the melody in It, "You got around all right, I see.” said, mounting. I always read the Cincinnati Week a trickle of water dribble from the left It there. "I got around all right, thanks to ly Gazette.” “ Ion know we got an extra mule tuft of ib-ece under their throats She si... I for » “ Well, now, I don’t hardly know, your mule. What do I owe you for here," Junior said. The same ewe atarted to cross the she had <«t J m ' the use of It?" “It seems like u waste Just to lead Crei-k, but the shepherd lowered I the minnow« * * * * * Jesse." Tandy walked about the “Nothing at all. nothing at alL her,” Hardin sputtered. room impressively. h,|| 1 r his head nml harked, nml ah** *1 Mr !"-d 11,1 Glad to accommodate you." Jasper had no retort He swung turned back nm| was followed by now. Cynthia “I thought if you’d agree to It I "Smoke?" Shellenberger offered a into the saddle. could take one of your books over the other* Into tbe pen. Cynthia going to do and thin« cigar. Then as Sparrel mounted and closed the bar*, borne and get started some before wt'.v? 'VI.»' "No, but much obliged to you.” started to go without saying any fall.” ^ "That'* bettor,” «lie snld, nnd tin Snakes have to I1" They sat down. . in ***■*• «lieh t«'n” „1 thing. Hardin could wait no longer dog muzzled her hand. “ Well, Jesse, I'll tell you. If you’ve ,”" P nil the time *• *'A good deal of trade on the riv for the news. “Did you trade any |hollt « ".Sheep live a calm am) easy Ilf»*, they go on ail made up your mind to follow the ers.” with that feller, Sparrel?” don’t they, sin-p? Never much to don't think " n>,h *f )t- H law, I ’ll be glad to have you. Things “ Yes. Plkevllle Is a right good- “I ‘'wire 1 'nay do some business bother them worse than your bark must he ffvald* •re slack right now, but they’re go sized town now," Sparrel said. with him, later on," Sparrel said ing to pick up before long around “And It will get better as this re- He rode out of the stable and down that wouldn't hurt a motherless shmhlered «nd ran <» lamb If be Juat knew It. Ami nl here. I’m getting practice down gl- n opens up." the road followed by Jasper and way« somebody to *ee that they the river now and It’ll he handy to The subject was ready to be Jesse. " C mssed have food and water. The women have somebody here In the office." brought Into the open, but Sparrel nlwnyn water the sheep; there’s “I'll he much obliged to you," was still. Then Shellenberger CHAPTER VI Gnnnon creek, t n Jesse said. Bible for that. And come to think pi tiny ed. rock and st'""1 ind w|tb “Don't mention It." "Well, Mr. Pattern, I rode by that l l f O L K P K N seemed emptied to of It the Bible women always met moved h I ow F v arouml ^ ^ their men at the well when they Tandy showed him some of the lower timber-land. It may not he v y Cynthia when Sparrel and watered their «hoop. lad'* see: rent and »et I law books and told him how they as good as I fl*-st thought, but I’ll Jesse und Jasper bad ridden out ' «atber^ were arranged In series and how stick to the proposition I made. of It. there was Itelyekah and lineimi and It through ,l"* tinrir.i n where irwi you found by number the statute What do you say about It?” Jethro’* daughter . . . I wonder If Or, perhaps, tbe feel of emptiness and Judgments on a case. “And It would he better to he watering “I don't guess 1 can do it," Spar was only the moment or unusual here’s a brand-new book. I ain’t rel said. a flock of seared ewe*, Just putting stillness between the tumult of day up the last bur like thin fur In ^^xxxysoocw ocoooooooooocvxxx^ a c o c o Q O O C x ^ o p ^ p tr^ c y ^ jO Q ^ o o ^ y Patterns of Wolfpen j I" % ¡1