Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-02-07

sloshed, an dove, an sprinkled hot iror
about wifi thar tails. A string owe SUI
pearch would have just been ma whar.
While the devil werstringin the small
fry. Butler, surnamed the beast, aidgeC
back to whar | sot in the boat, a keepin
one eye sot on the devil, an tother on
me, an he whisperedin my ear "Whars
Sysiphus ?" SEE | : Don't know why y
ooh, nothip; only wanted to see which
knowed the most owe our trades, him OF
me-" Then he whispered Chat mortul
off eye owe hisin still sot on the devir
"Say, do yu kno whar his majesty keeps
his spoons p SEE [ /: ''Does yu see that
chain hangin over the starn? He keeps
'em in big pot sunk at tother aiud owe
hit" He jist went over the starn head
fust, end coon'd hit down the chain, out
EN- sight under the birthstone. AFTER be-
in gone spell he come back, lookin dis
appinted-like; but his gineral looks wer
powerfully improved by his bath in melt
ed birthstone. swow he looked heap
more like human. SEE he: "Gone,
pot an ALL" l opened my eyes. SEE he :
"Hain't Forney got 'em p SEE L: "May
be so--he's been fumblin roud the starn
good while" Dam ifhe didnent sarch
every pocket Forney had, an the ole
cuss never cotcb him at hit, an he got
the spoons. While this were gwine on
Old Thad, wer tryin to claim kin wifi
the devil, comparin his foot along wifi
ole Nick's. l think the pint wer to git
an office, for l hearn the devil keep say
in; mo, no, [ be dam if do; we has
order here now An all the time ole
Wade wer pesterin his majesty for free
ticket On his doggery. seed that the
devil wer gittin monstrous Uneasy.
Wendell Phillips kept a watchin fust the
side what went down onder the climers
an then the side what come up out owe
the lake. He jist hoped overheard, an
swum over thar, an tryin his durudest to
turn hit tother way he GRABBED the slopin
side of the cleats, an hold on as long be as
could and then slosh back agin among the
melted dogirons an birthstone. I reck-
on he must made fifty trials afore he
quit, an swum back to the boat, an then
he sot in the most yearnest manner to
pursuading the devil to take offthe cleats
an nail 'em on again upside down, so as
to run hell backwards an owe course the
outside world with hit, without given a
single reason why hit helped the matter
This made the devil bile owe. He sed :
Not burned one owe EN- should stay
thar another hour. That they'd raise a
rebellion sure, an destroy the institution,
an then what would the world do, partic-
ularly New England p
1 tell you he jist rared; SEE he: IN
clear my dominions oveyu burned quick
an he ranged big bonn morter, what
we're in the boat, pint blank at the bach
hole, an he loaded in ole Wade, feet fust
an made Forney tech him off. BY golly
he went whizzen throu the hole, an hit
rained whisky on the lake ontil hit burnt
blue. Next he grabbed ole Thad; seq
he, tremblin, please yer majesty, load
her in wifi me- pintin to she niger
strung on the chain; seq the devil, mo sir
[ think we can manage her arter you is
gone, an besides, she looks like she need
ed little rest Bolangl an [ jist cotch
. glimps owe Thads hooked foot scrapin
4 splinter off the hatch combin. Mex he
yoked Sumner, an he begged to be 10 adj
ed head fust, as be sed he'd always trav-
eled sturn fust thou life, an he wanted
to finish his journey the same way, on
account owe his record. So, sturn fust
he come outen the mortar, sturn fust he
went outen the hatch hole, an 1 recon
Turn lust he bdrsted agin sumfn away
y9nder on the out side. Buffers, sur
named the the beast, turn come mex.
While the devil were a loadin him in, [
observed him busy butonin up his pock-
its. When the mortar fired wer watchin
the hatch clost; dideut like the idear owe
his leavin; but dam if he went thar, he
follered the line owe his cock eye, an
busted into million pieces agin the wall.
Spoons and breast. pins fell a foot deep
all over the lake, and l hearn the vim
men all cheer. The devil then licked