The Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1852-1872, 1853-09-24
Red RI.a. Corrc.ponaenec.

| MEssRs. EDIToRs: l broke off my yarn last
seeminly abont 10 feie dredfnlly pale and orfully
skeerd, and bad ist got my eyes sarter open.
Shocks, seq he, g say Revovers." Well,
shore ennf there was a nifty popn and bangrn
in the Streets and in the stores and the dogervs.
and erery r.ar! II was ennfto skeer any body
that hadn't bin in the Mexican war.
1.-The Wigs haz broke loose % ser Spikes.
More like" sez l. :. that tother place has broke
Loose what that Teller was hoeren for yesterday,
or more likely still its sqnatter riot"
8 A sqnatteT rio,l fudge" says Spikes "I'm
parfectly ashamed of your ;gnoronee, Shocks !;
why didn't you know the squatters took the
Stale long ago. and this here town in pertck lar !;
haint all the big men fishen for thur votes and
the little ones afeerd TO say boob? every body is
ON thur side. and whq will they riot with they
haint begun fur to devide out the bosses aud
cows get and SO no cause fur riots can exist no
how p
begun to feel sorter asAy at the word ignor
ance, ami sined at the popin agin, to get
time to make a sootable answer. | cum to the
konclooshun that it warnt revolvers, howsum-
ever, and seq so.
mot Revolvers." SEE Spikes, "havn't heern
gers cum in outn' the chaperale and stormed a
Dutch town by firin the tops of the houses,
and then takin aud drinkin all the Ticker, and
smashin the bottles afterwards l tell you.
Snoohs. I'm not to be fooled in the pop ov
Revolver
AT the word " Rangers" thinks I, now Spikes
I've got you.
Spikes seq l, :" expect its your own Bull
town Rangers out agin, and you'll hev chance
to make another song"
Did you ever liberty pole with jint in
the middle, as to let the upper hat slip down
all OF sndden by puin rope? If you ever
did, you can form sum notion Of how old Spikes
loscerd. Instid of 10 fete, he seemed to be man
ov fete inches in an instant but all the
shortnen of the body seem'd to be used in the
lcngthnin of the face; and maybee he wurnt
bewiy! I'd a give my ridn mule TO bin able to
pinch sum one.
Spikes turns his luvly fz towards me, and puts
on most imporin look; | don't bleeve he heerd
any more revoyers for the moment, aliho just
then he noise seemed to be doubled. He raised
his hand towards the place whar biz hart might
be, and he seq, saiz he ''Snooks, l thought that
little thing forgot betwixt u.s. you shurely
don't meen to call it up agn, now that you're
stayln in my house, and besides them veerses of
yourn wurnt fit to be red till fixed 'em up al
most entirely And - by - Shocks,
it rs the Wings look, don't you see Their gilt car
riage and them gold letters, and them gray
bosses 2"
About this time there was hoAeren as well as
porin, and didn't know but some body mite be
hurt.
Spikes pokcd his face ont'n the winder. II
bad to go ont eend ways, becase it was too long
tor any other movement. | gets up to look out
too, over Spikes shoulder like. AS he leened on
the winder sill, his Goa, tales hung over the hips
so as to open the pockets and the eends of seve-
raj pepers stuck ont: know'd they warnt
deeds of sale, nor invices of goods, nor nothin of
that sort, indeed they warnt nothen but his oun
literary produckshins, and there laint 20 law for
taken sich things. Sez |, ''here goes to be even
with yon, old feller,' and | whips out "a bundle
and hides EN- in my has.
only got half peep out, when seed the gilt
wagon and the grays a chargin rite down to-
wards us. Spikes all Of u sudden jifked back
his head, but unfortunately stuck by the chin on
the wnder casen. | tuck holt of the back part
of his breeellcs to help him. when he brought Il
Honnce, and turned GUNNER set backw
and knocked me eileen across the house-aksn
with me the whole binder part OF the brehes
aud the lower eeud of the shirt. As he got on
his al!uufs siitin mp | fell glad wiplnin
folks wnz present. As he riz. he seq, SHOCKS
lock the door don't let EN- in"