The Shasta courier., 1853-09-17
Letter from Red Bluffs.
REp-BLuFF, Sept. -, 1876

hED-bLufF, oept IL, 1898.
| DrrR EpIToRs IL arriv here more'n week
ago and have bin ltchin to write you ever sense.
| This Red-Bluf is sum, and is kiverd with
towns several deep-one town overcapin tother,
sorter like the capes of big coat, only the little
ones is at the bottom, each upper one spreadep
out little longer and wider, duz womans
petty-coats, if you ever seed 'em.S This makes
beautiful confushun, and what adz to the fun,
and makes in the language of Burns,
| .sConfushun WINS confownded" ("
is that the squatters haint forgot their part of
the play but jumps on every nice lookin lot, and
then moves their stakes and jumps asin, whea
they see emmy body has an to emmy place IN
particlar.
| But pom the hole these jokes dnz pretty well,
and | have sum idea of piohin in and pu,tip
! down my stakes tn.
| You orter been at the Lees cshun-we had q
time! The day orinl hot and the Teenl
sers had driv nifty hard threw the dust to get
here in time; the boys what lives here had be-
| gun the mite before 10 holler for the wings and
sumtilnes for the demicrats tn. 1t so turned
out that \purty sune they wus all struck with
a d37neSS, all ABOUT Tue same tliney Dut
! nately it had run on 'em too fur-as the docturs
sez of the ager, when a man has had Two shakes.
1t took two or three days 10 stop 1t on sum ny
EN-.
They say the little barr Keeper at Reeds dup
his purtiest fur the sufferin crowd, and poured
out cocktales with looseness His zeel wuz
rewarded, for they made kunstable outn i'm,
] h,,t,
the hubhub he got the toiher offs. l beeve
hees satisfied.
But the funpyest part was the voten. That
beet everything i've seen yet. Thare was TEL
Ter thought would kill hsself tryin to make
the boys go the rite way. Which way that was
didn't find out Sumiimes he holler'd 8 hoo.
raw for the dmckrats !" aud sumimes " hoo
raw for h-l!" He foo about orfnl, and made
me think of young cat tryn TO catch its owp
tale-runnin round fust on this side and ihep
on toher, and then stoppin to take site, and
springin at the fnst thing it put eyes ON.
didn't see much more, but heerd lots. The
fact is the water at the bnf aint nun nv the best
and mite hav Tux , much ov it. | came here
on visit to old man Spikes--an old aqnantcnee
several nv the boys, and he'd to Ticker wi d
en- all now, and agin in honor of their respect.
i've parties, l, bein stranger, didn't want tG
sho parshal, you know. Bimeby, as ] sed, got
sorter sick, and went and lay do~a at OLD
Spikeses.
You know Spikes Ibleeve. Maybe you've
fergot i'm. Well heez the fecr What rit the
= Bull-town Ranger Song " for your paper (ony
he didn't rit it myself and he stole it.)-
Spikes has been shy of me ever sense that atar
till paid him this visit. tFhcn he seed me cum
np friendly to him, he pecrd nifty glad. and fixed
decent sort of shake down i'll his shaniy SO !
KUN over and lay down. l only resied so, so,
| bekase Mqt noise beet the kombiaed efforts Of
) Indian Rancherees ell holler.
| didn't git up till next morpi,, when l was
walked BY vioiept shake, nnd somebody seq
g Look out Snook ooks--revolvcrs."
Now the menshnn OF revolyers is sorter like
the cry of fire, and wakes mp nifty quick,
tempted to Jump up bu found my back pow
erfni week, Owe got the runatiz hnr) so con.
cluded to tust open my eyes. Thar stood old
Spikes .he seemed about 10 feet 4igh-his har
sticken out straie from under bis nile cap all
round, and perhaps the wust skeered man at
that momeut in kaaforny
Thar, l can't do nr;hin more for yonr l,apep
this week. I'll tell about the revolvcrs next
week. Yourn,
DIADoLUs SSooks.
N. B. Pleze send me of yonr papers for dis-
tribushun 'mongst my trends. DS.
T. S. think you mite as we'll send me 6 more
to forward TO my kin folks in Arkansaw.
D.S.
]. S. 2. Don't forget to doc 'em up re.lly
for the male, don't Lay much time to tend
to sich small matters. DS
P. s B. II yon s1auM forget to send Spikes
his paper for week or two il might be as well,
becase I'm still sioppin wil hlm. DIS.
P.S. 4. I'll jest ,ro..be you ,u say that if that
feller +" Baron Vieux" don't cum rit out after tho
gal down at tlle Ra callin .,t i'm, heez the man
I'm down on. Ii a woman was 10 call me
woudn't shine and blaze Why that Comic
that disappeared tH,!icr nite--the tale it carried
| wouldn't be no whar. DIS.
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I'VE never ''seed 'em"