The Portland daily press., 1868-09-26


the golden store or Roaring Camp was. taken.
There, on blanket spread over pine boughs,
he would lie while the men were working in
the bitches below. Latterly, there was a
rude attempt to decorate this bower with
flowers and sweet smelling shrubs, and gen
orally some one would bring him cluster of
wild honeysuckles, azalias, or the painted
blossoms OF Las Mariposas. The men had
suddenly awakened to the fact that there
were beauty and significance in these trifes
which they had so long trodden calelessly be-
meath their feet. A flake of glttering mica.
fragment OF Variegated quartz, a bright peb
bic from the bed of the creek, became beauti
iul to eyes thus cleared and strengthened.
and were invariably put aside Tor The
Luck" Ii was wonderful how many treas
ures the woods and hillsides Welded that
would do for Tommy" Surrounded by
playthingS such as never child out of fairy
land had before, il is to be hoped that Tom
my was content. He appeared to be securely
happy-albeit there was an iniantine gravity
about him-a contemplatve light in his
round gray eyes that sometimes worried
Stumpy. He was always tractable and quiet,
and it is recorded that once, having crept be,
You'd his 'corraf-a hedge of tasseled pine
bouehs, which surrounded his bed---he drop
ped over the bank on his head in the soft
earth, and remained with his notified legs in
bllC Ill tlldI pCSillOL dI feast i've nlll-
utes with unflinching gravity. He was ex-
trcated without murmur. | hesitate to re-
cord the many other instances of his sagaci-
ty, which TEST, unfortunately, upon the state
ments OF prejudced friends. Some of them
were not without tinge of superstition. 81
crept up the bank just now," said Ken uck one
day, III GREATNESS state of excitement, land
dern my skin if he wasn't talking to jay
bird as was -slttln on his lap. There they
was, just as Tree and Sociable as ANYTHING YOU
please, a-jawin at each other just like two
cherry-bums." Howbeit, whether creeping
over the pine boughs or lying lazilv on his
back, blinking at the leaves above him. to
hun the birds sang, the squirrels chartered,
anu the flowers bloomed. Nature was his
nurse and playfellow. For him she would
let SIP between the leaves golden shafts of
SunliSht mat tell just within his grasp; she
would send wandering breezes to visit him
with the balm OF bay and resinous gums: to
him the tall redwoods nodded Familiarity and
sleepily, the bumble-bees buzzed. and tbe
rocks cawed as iumberous accompaniment.
such was the golden summer of Roaring
Camp They were flush times and the Luck
was with them. The claims had Welded
enormously. The camp was jealous OF its
pa,s"eSes and looked suspiciously on stran-
80; NO encouragement was given to immi-
9onso4 ahu 10 make their Seclusion more
tai,, WI i1e land on either side OF the noun
nre-emnte s' T surrounded the camp they duly
gular proficiency with the revolver ke U tha
reserve OF Roaring Camp invioiate' The e e ene
pressman-their only connectnS lint 81 tA
the surrounding world-sometimes told w m,n
deriul stories of the camp. He wou'd " San
They've street up there in Roaring tbsiI
would lay over any street in Red Dog. Tbev
have got vines and flowers round their hol 5.
es, and lheJ wash themselves twice a day.
But they're mighty rough on strangers, and
they worship an Ingin baby"
WITH the prosperity OF the camp came
desire for further improvement. 1t was pro-
posed 10 build hotel in the following spring,
ana TO invite one or two decent families to re,