The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-08

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by checking it off ON his finger ends. ]
ever you call it, runs along between
two layers of granite, just the same as
if it were sandwich Very well,
now suppose you go down on that,
say thousand feet, or may be twelve
hundred, tit don't really matter), be-
fore you drift; and then you start
your drifts, some of them across the
ledge, and others along the length Of
it, where the sulphurets-I believe
they call them sulphurets, though
why they should, considering that, SO
far as L can see, the main depend
ence of miner does not so lie az
some suppose, but in which it cannot
be successfully maintained. wherein
| the same should not continue while
part and parcel of the same are not
committed to either in the sense re-
ferred to, whereas under different
circumstances the most inexperienced
among us could not detect it if it were,
or might overlook it if it did, or
scorn the very idea of such a thing,
even though it were palpably demon
strated as such, Am l not right? :
/ said, sorrowfully, 8 l feel ashamed
of myself, Mr.. Ward. / know fought
to understand you perfectly we'll, but
you see that Internal whisky cocktail
! has got into my head, and row can
not understand, even the simplest
proposition. [ told you how it be. -
"Oh, don't mind it, don't mind it
| the fault was my own, no doubt
though [ did think I was making it
clear enough for y e
Don't say word, clearl Why
you stated it as clear as the sun to
anybody but an abject idiot, but its
that confounded cocktail that has
played the mischief"
mo, now don't say that-I'll begin
it all over again, and
Don't now-for goodness sake
don't do anything of the kind, be-
cause | tell you my head is in such a
condition that | don't believe [ could
understand the most trifing question
a man could ask me- !"
Now, don't you be afraid. I'll
put it so plain this time that you can I
help but get the hang of it. We will
begin at the very beginning" Clean
ing far across the table, with deter
mined impressiveness wrought upon
his every feature, and fingers pre-
pared to keep tally of each point as
enumerated--and / leaning forward
with painful interest also, resolved to
comprehend or perish,) You know
the vein, the ledge, the, thing that
contains the metal, whereby it con-
stitutes the medium betweenall other
forces, whether of present or remote
/. agencies, so brought to bear in favor
of the former against the latter, OF
the latter against the former, or all
or both, or compromising as far as
Z possible the relative differences exist
ing within the radius whence oulmi-
mates the several degrees of similar
ity to which"
I said, "Oh, blame my wooden
head, it amt any usel--it amt any
use to try can't understand any
thing. The palmer. you get it, the
more | can't get the hang of it.
| heard suspicious noise behind
me, and turned in time to see Kings
ton lodging behind newspaper ano
quaking with a gentle ecstacy OF
laughter. | looked at Ward again
and he had thrown off his dread
solemnity and was laughing also
Then | saw that | had been sold
that [ had been made the victim of {
swindle in the way of a string o
plausibly worded sentences tina
didn't mean anything under the sun
Artemus Ward was one OF the bes
fellows in the world, and one of the
; most companionable. 1t has beer
said that he was not fluent In conver
sation, but with the above experienc,
in my mind, / differ. ads Is
49 MARK TWAIN.