roam these mountains

Around the first of August Milton came down from the mountain and gathered up a gang of us. Alta Ballad, Daphne and Earl were home for a month. Frank and Bobby and two of Earls sister and took us up in the mountain for two weeks on a vacation.

Frank and I paired off and we roamed all over these mountains, Bobby and Edith was with us. Bob liked to fish so we set around and talk while he done the fishing, we would set around the campfire and sing, play games and just had a wonderful time for two weeks.

school?
When we got back home it was getting close for Edith and I to think about school. So we talked it over and decided to go back to Cowley to go to school and get a small place to live. There was a school close to Spence where Charlie, Robert and Gene could go to school. Daphne and Earl were getting ready to go back to Ogden, Utah, so he could start to school.

Edith and I sleep in the sheep wagon and I had to go in the Kitchen for a drink of water. I heard Earl talking to papa and mother about taking Edith back with them. I heard Earl say that Edith was smarter than Kate and thought it would do more good to take Edith. I heard papa say that he would talk to me about it, to see what I thought. Well the ground fell out from under me for awhile.

I laid there that night wondering what I would do. I know Papa would not let me go to Lovell or Cowley alone to school. I know I would be there all winter alone, with nothing to do or no where to go. I know I would not keep Edith from going with Earl and Daphne. I knew that Frank and Bobby would be laid off of the railroad when it got cold and Frank was leaving for Idaho.

When Papa asked me what I thought, I told him to let Edith go with them. I did not care, but I do not think he and mother know the hate I had in my heart for Earl Despain, and as time went by, he helped mess up Edith’s life. But this is my story. After it was all settled, Papa asked me if I would go into Graybull to buy some cloth to make Edith some new clothes to take with her. I said yes.

new things

There was an old bachelor that lived on a small ranch near the river, and he had been trying to get me to marry him. I would just laugh at him and go on my way. When Papa said he was going into town, I made a trip to see the bachelor, and borrowed twenty dollars off of him, because I knew that Edith would get all the new things.
It took us one whole day to make the trip, after we had got everything that Edith needed, Papa left me alone and went somewhere. While we were in the store I had seen a coat that I liked, so when I was alone I went into the store and bought the coat, put it in the buggy with the rest of the bundles and was just setting there when Papa came back. When we get home I put the coat in the sheep wagon.