Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-08-24

struck across the breast with the stock
Of rife, and | felt the blood rushing
out of my nose and mouth. Then |
got ugly, and | remember that | got
hold of knife and then it was all
cloudy like, and l was wild, and |
struck savage blows, following the
devils up from one side to the other of
the room and into the corners, striking
and slashing until l knew that every one
was dead. All of a sudden it seemed
as if my heart was on fire. l was
bleeding everywhere. rushed out to
the we'll and drank from the bucket,
and then tumbled down in a faint"
Breathless with the intense interest
with which / had followed this strange
story, all the more thrilling and weird
when its hero, seeming to live over
again the bloody events of that day,
gave way to its terrible spirit with wild,
savage gestures, saw then-what my
scrutiny of the morning had failed to
discover-the tiger which lay concealed
beneath the gentle exterior.
"You must have been hurt almost to
DEATH" | said
"There were eleven buck-shotin me.
| carry some of them now. l was cut
in thirteen places. All of them bad
enough to have let out the life of man.
But that blessed old DIR. Mills pulled
me through it, after bed siege of many
a long week."
"That prayer of yours, Bill, may have
been more potent for your safety than
you think. You should thank God for
your deliverance.
'.To tell you the truth, Kernel" 4" res
ponded the scout with certain solem-
nifty in his grave face, II don't talk
about such things to the people round
here, but alters feel thankful when l
get out of bad scrape.
JAUNTY MEN.-Women of sense do
not like this variety of the human spe-
cies. "By jaunty men, we mean those
excessively debonair individuals with a
minuet step and self-satisfed smirk,
whose social speciality is an affectation
of nonchalance. AS rule, your jaunty
man wears his hat little one side and
cultivates rakish appearance generally.
If handsome woman passes him he
generally throws at her, over his shoul-
der, a glance which he intends to be at
once careless and killing, but which is
a failure in both respects, being simply
pert and presuming. Jaunty men often
amble along the fashionable promenade
in pairs. In these cases the hats of the
twain almost invariably slant in differ
ent directions, one being tipped over
the right eye, the other over the left.
Most of the species are below the medi-
um hight, and wear remarkably high
heeled boots. They delight also in
vivid tints, and indulge, if nature has
been propitious to them in the matter
of hair, in good deal of wingy whis-
ker; and, if their teeth are good, they
show them frequently. The jaunty
man looks as IT he thought his emission"
in life was to make an Impression, es-
pecially upon the ladies, and when they
smile at him he supposes them to be
smiling on him. So he goes on his
dapper way rejoicing-a much deluded
individual. 1t is utterly impossible for
any person with well constituted mind
to respect jaunty man. As easily
might one respect a Jumping-jack.
Fancying himself the glass of fashion
and the mold of form, he is, in fact, OBJ
trusively unlike gentleman; quietude
of manner being a cardinal element of
true gentility. Jaunty men sometimes
tickle the fancies of weak girls, but find
no favor with the thinking portion of
the sex, who look right through them,
and gauge them at their true value,
which sis less than nothing and van
ity."-Sunday Mercury.