The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-07-22

as we made sudden lurch ana raftieI
along The side Of fearful precipice.
Mary kill, as | knows of. Some eff
the drivers smash 'em once in Il while.
but that's whi>key (here he took anoth-
er pull at tie pocket pistol or bad dri
vim. Last month TWO stages went
over the grade, no body hurt IN rartic-
ular, only few lers'n arms broken.
Them was opposition stages our stages
ginner|y travels on the road. some Of
the opposition boys mashed 'em a lit
tie last fall. our company'S Stricr YOU
bet. won't keep drunken drivers that
kill 'em, stranger what's the time?'
Ten a. m"
"All right GIT aeoup Jake git alang
Mock, you Dick. steady. drunken dri-
vers don't pay, they mash things mp.
'tw. Mt pay. faint IA good investment
for man nor beast. Stages cost i'm
men>e. broken bone. costs heavy be-
sides. Git alang ny bnmmers;" and
thus the time raSses away and before
you reach the bottom, of the grade You
fud yourself in condition to shout
sing. laugh or dance.
II M found us at Cedar Cry mid
way between Curinne aud Monument
Point "a city # COYOTE hoes mud hrV-
els and saloons Here | babe Tim
good by, and told him hnrei +. meet
him again in the next world IF not H.
this. All honor To thee noble II M.
thy, lie. it never he sad that inyratl-
tude or disregard for stage driver i
one of nay vices, but on the con rar,
! ere in the c"lu ms nf he Plyn"uth
Weekly Democrat | shah re>ria vnli5
name from Oblivion. Sweet AMI zen
RE ladies' shall herr of yolr hap~ aud
mi>haps and admire Your maulytD
qualities aud men. high min,le.l men.
shall give honor 10 whom honor i due
We start again s fle,h horsr>. Il neu
voice, a new face, Il Dew driver. tn
fortunately he was musician and
knew but one tune, and OF that tune
only one verse aud Of that verse only
one line, which was ooh California.
your land for me" which he coumrn-
ced and sang from the time we left
Cedar City until we reached Monument
Point. | am confident that he i. slug
ing that song yet for the last thIn" |
saw OF him lie was leaning against n
pine tree at Monument Point Singiu.
at the top Of his voice Oh California
1t :" This SOM might hava been good
with strong chorus but one Inc of u
sung Increasingly for six ion- hours
was the least bit tresome | Almost
eD;urcd to ask him why in thunder
he didn't 20 to California, bur | kept
quiet. He must have been either
struck after the country or his girl
lived there | don't know which
"Driver don't you get tired If driving
" or these same roads So often?
"Wa'al yes. calkilate to quit next
trip, amt M better 1ff than when |
stage driven ten years az"
gittin old fast, rheumatic in my legs
arms. nobody to look after used ny
stage drivers, then kick the bucket"
You must have plenty of friends
irving over the route 81 much "
yes, yes, see en- t,-day gone to-
cit aenup Charley" break ing
out every orcc in VIII lie with "Oh Cal |
fornia" and exc
Driver how an 'ar'h do yen see "a
lri7e over these roads in he NIGHTS"
We'll fact is ynu know. when he
stage makes no noise. . nncrv look |
over to see where The id critters
ag0in', " hen the wheels rattle | knows
we're on hard ground, Oh California
ETC.. now Jake git ~
Don't you ever get scared driving
so near these awful precepices?"
Well yes. sometimes, when am
scared | knows it for | wants 20 drink
an uncommon sight of wh>key. (reader
can't yen see the hint immediate
" produced another pistol IN p s'e>-
sion of my friend Burch and lie was all /
right.
Here let me re mark that the climate
Of Utah is, most of the year, very dry.
and as natural consequence people .
dry up considerably, now as their WA
ter is very brackish they have TO find
a substitute Of some kind. and this
ubstitute is whiskey. Five ciies west
Of Cedar City we met long tram "i
wagons loaded with goods of e. cry hi--
cription for Salt Lake City. These
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