The weekly ledger., 1857-05-09
For The Weekly Ledger.
TRACKS OF A TRAVELLER.

these tracks" your last weeks paper did
not chronicle his departure from
DRYTowN
As a faithful recorder of events you could
not have done so without misstating the
facts; and newspapers, like figures, ,eiu
not he'
am not very clear as to what detained
me here so long; hardly think that any one
administered chloroform to me, yet / took
something at Peter Yeager's, that from its
soothing, oblivious fleets might have been
the above named drug. Well, am glad on
the whole that / was kept here, for had !
not remained should have lost most pleas
ant visit with DR.. Kasmir and walk in his
very tasteful and most beautiful garden. Be.
ing entirely hidden from the street by the
buildings, the traveller would not imagine that
so fine and large collection of rare flowers
and plants existed in town, apparently only
given to utility The DIR. is beautifying his
premises with fruit and shade trees and
shrubbery with view to making it his per-
manent home. Already the owner of eight
or ten houses-all of them tenanted, one of
them brick building occupied as a store and
law office-he contemplates further improve
ments. He has selected a knoll, south of
town, on which to erect bis future residence
/ was leaving the Doctors grounds, the
favored possessor of choice boquet when
met bevy of the fair ones of the town iusf
entering for stroll among their rivals - \,
fragrant blossoms. OF course | was IOGsI
ungaant as to leave them Immediately after
securing an Introduction to them en- maSSe i
think by the manner they received Inc that
they recognised the traveller in me. | knew
had been considerably noiSed around town,
NOW don't leave the out of that "noised,"
for | don't desire the public to think | was
aosed around, but had not anticipated a
place in the ladies' minds. My boquet did
not last long; pair of laughing eyes and a
witching laugh soon ao0n that from me, and
regretted was not made of boquets so
that / could have given myself away and been
accepted by the dozen gentle hands that so
lovingly caressed the willing flowers.
That night had demonstrations ones
they were-but pshaw! they were only dreams
and on awaking and knowing they could
never be realized, | entertained serious inten-
tions of suicide. Considering drowning to be
the easiest death rushed down to the swim
ing-bath house that has been recently built
here to bury myself beneath the "vasty
deep:n but the water was too cold, so l am
yet traveller
PHELPS theatricals have been here and given
MS an idea of their mettle in Damon and
/ Pythias," and the Widows Victim" Be
tween the plays Miss Lizzie Gordon gave q
couple of fancy dances Some liked the
one, and some the other, and all were salts
| fed.
In courtly circles the art of retiring from
room is well understood The face should be
/ kept to those whom you are leaving, and by
a succession of backward slides and graceful
/ bows you gain the door, and then with a final
! flourish you make your exit. There is Just
as much of knack in leaving town where
you have many friends But l am so awk-
ward that Whenever l undertake to do the
/ thing handsomely | am sure to meet with a
mishap that spos it ALL But out of town
must get, whether gracefully or not; so by a
coup-de-main, or a Ledger-de-main if you
please, / took myself on the hgh-toay towards
/ the west
Having ono occasion" passed the Cen
I trail House without stopping, and the same
with the Willow Springs Flat, and brought
up all right at the
/ WILLOW SPRINGS.
On the large farm here they have just COM
menced cutting hay, and 4" the mower whet-
ting his scythe," made music that drew me
into the fields where they were at work
| The grass is rather light here this year but
what there is appears to be of good quality.
/ The grain sown upon the ranch will not
amount to much.
Being desirous of trying old Times wea-
pon, and seeing spare scythe laying near
the house, gave it few touches in sciell-
tifc style and slashed in, but had not moved
more than a rod before l cut off the head
of Shanghai that was spreading
herself" on a nest she had stolen in the
grass. took good care not to mention the
above when came to pay my bill.
Mining here is still carried on, though not
very successfully. There is store here that
supplies the wants of the camp and affords a
pleasant place to exchange the gossip of the
diggngs.
The signs of rain almost induced me to
continue here, as the courteous landlord ad-
vised, but the ghost of the headless hen haun-
ted me so that | left, Grain or shine"
was not fairly out of sight of the camp be-
fore the rain in large drops commenced falling
But kept on, occasionally stopping under
tree for shelter. Thoroughly saturated ar
rived at the
FOREST HOME,