The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-11-16

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II I! u px1zbs FRxlscRs DANA uA6n 49,
Tmy, NJ Conductor, when will the next
srrrooo train 70 out for Sc. Louis p
n SElsvsn o'clock and thirty minutes To-
nighh sir was the gsntlsmanly reply 70
- rough query.
aElevsn o'clock and thirty ninutssl Go
= Texas Why its TN III very minute,
IN bet ny boots against . jack knife the
aorning express 10 d.
"Yes, cir, it has been gone half an hour"
"Why in nataf didn't you get 10 here
sooasr? Fourteen houn in Chicagsr ID
enough to break Q fellow all to smash
Fourteen hours in Chicager, putting and
blowing I've been told they keeps reg
ular six hundred horse steam power oil the
while running, 10 blow them selves up with,
end pick the pocksts Of every Traveller to
nay he fremsn and engineers Well, !
sus,s ean stand it; I've twenty that has
never been broke; reckon that win put me
give your old boss another peck Of oats. l
tell ye, this fourteen hours win knock my
calculations into the middle Of next
week" ~ FE
avery sorrv; sir-wsve done our best
but - We are net clerks Of the weather,
hope you will not lay the misfortune to our
account. Snow drifts and the Thermometers
sixteen degrees below zero, are enemies va
can readily overcome"
"Thats 90" said the first speaker, with a
broad emphasis, and good natursd, for
giving smile. Fourteen hours IN Chiga
gsri'
The atantorien voice, sounded like trum
M Il aroused every sleeper ffom elysian
dreams into which he might have fallen al
tar his long tedious, cold nights travel
Everv head was turnsd, every eye was fixed
on the man that had thus broken the 81
lsncs. He was standing by the stove warm
ing bic boots To have warmed his feet
through such . mass Of cowhidc and sole
leather would have been fourteen hour Z
operation. Six fsst four or i've inches be
stood in those boets, With shoulders Ceased
in Q fur eoAt) that locked more like bearing
M world than you will meet, ordinarily,
in half life time HIS head Websterlan,
=. his hair black - jet his whiskers to match
his dark, pi ercing eye, and his jaws eter-
nally moving, with rousing quid between
them. with a smile of cheerful good humor,
notwithstanding his seeming Impotence, at
tracted every ones attention.
"Fourteen hours in Chicager, oh Well
4 can stand il If the rest can, ii twenty col,
lars won't carry me through, I'll borrow of
my friends. I've got the things thatn bring
en-. That's 90.
And he thrust hand little less in size
than q common spade, down into the cavern
Gus depths Of broad striped, aashy pair of
pants, and brought up that great red hand,
full - it could hold, Of shining twenty dollar
gold pieces.
Don't you think can ssand these ere
Chicsgsrs for one fourteen hours? 2
A nod of assent from three or four, and a
smile of curiosity from the rest, answered
his question in the affirmative.
"You must have been in luck, stranger
said an envions looking little man. you've
more than your share of gold
81 have Oh +? Well, | reckon not come
honestly by it; that's so. And there's them
living who can remember this child when he
went round the p'rairies trapping p fray
hens and the like to get him a nights lodg-
ing, or pair of shoes, to keep the mass
assaugsrs from biting my toes I've hung
myself up more nor one night in the timber
to keep out of the way Of tho wild varmints;
best sleeping in the world in the crotch Of
Q tree top Now | reckon you would mt be-
lievs it but I've gone all winter without a
shoe to my feet; and lived on wild game
whom could catch it. That's So
Didn't it stunt your growth said ayoice
near
Not bit of it 1t brought me right up.
These p'rarries arc wonderful roomy. |
thought ono spell would let my self out en-
tirely, but mo and mother had corcus and
decided that as she was getting old, and
blind like, it TUX too long and cost too much
to sew up the legs of my trousers, and SO
put a stop to it, and concluded that six feet
five would do for Teller that could mt afford
tee expensive luxury Of wife to mako his
breeches 1t was only my love for my moth
or that stopped my growth If I'd a had an
idea Of sewing machine, there's no telling
what might have done"
you have so many gold pieces in your
pocket, you can afford to get your trousers
made now Why don't you and your moth
er hold another corcus, and see what you
can do? IL she would let you expand your
SELF you might sell out to Barnum, and
make fortune travelling with Tom Thumb,
and take tho old woman along"
stranger SAID the rough, great man,
and his whole face doomed up with min
gled expression of pain and pride, stranger,
i spoke a word here did mt mean to, a
slightly word, like, about my mother. ]
would give all the gold in my pocket to bring
her back for one hour, to look upon this
country as it is now. She had her cabin
here when Chicager was nowhere here she
raised her boys-she could mt give them
larnin, but she taught US better things
than books can give; she taught US to be
honest, and useful, and industrious. She
taught US to be faithful and true; to stand
by friend and be generous to an enemy
Its thirty years, stranger, since We dug hel
grave BY the lake here with our own hands
and with many q tear and sob, turned our
selves away from the cabin where we'd been
rased-the Indians had killed our father
long before, and we'd nothing to keep US
and 30 we went out to seek our fortunes -
My brother, he took down to St Louis and
got married down there som ers; and l just
went where the winds bowed, and when d
seraped money enough together, cum back
and bought few acres of land around my
mothers old cabin, for the place where Ia
laio her bones was sacred like. Well, IN
the course of time it turned up right in the
middle of Chicager / could mt stand tina
Il loved my mother too we'll to let omni
buses rattle over her grave, 80 cum back
sbout fifteen years ago, and quietly re
moved her away to the buryin' ground
and then went back to Texas, and wrste t.
an agent afterward to sell my land VIVA,
cost few hundred to begin on, sold fol
forty thousapa-if I'd kept it till now i,
would have been worth ten times that bu,
got enough fort / soon turned the forty
thousa. into eighty thousand and that into
twice as much, and so on, till don't know
nor care how much | am worth, that's so
] work hard, am the same rough customer
remember every day of my life what my
mother taught me; never drink, gamble OIL
fight; wish didn't swear and chaw, but
thems got to be kind second mater like
and the only thing that troubles me is my
money-haven't got no wife nor children
and I'm going to hunt up my brother and
his folks If his boys are clever and indus
trious, amt ashamed of my big boots and
old fashioned ways, and his gals is young
women and not ladies; if they help their
mother, and don't put on more than two
frocks day. III make EN- rich, every one
Of EN-.