The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-12-02
How a Newspaper Man was Cor
ralle u by q Landlord s Daughter.
Correspondence Of The Louisville Express.

correspondence Of The Louisville Express !
] haven't dated this letter, because
don know where [ am. | am about nine
miles from JuIesburg, at little settlement
on the South Platte river. At daylight
to morrow | am to catch some of the finest
salmon You ever saw. They will not bite
at any other time Of day. | suppose they
learned this disagreeabie habit of early
breakiilsting from the Bull Whackers, !"
who navigate these plains. | am stopping
at little hotel about thirty by ten feet
The scarcest thing in this country is lumber,
settlers have to pay ever so many dollars a
foot for all they use, besides what they
brought IL their valises. The landlord is
from Pennsylvania, and seems TO be doing
thriving business. BY dint Of hard talk
ing and liberal promises, | got room to
to myself. 1t is just large enough
for the bed and candle box set On a chair
upon which | am writing this letter. 1t is
IN one end Of the building, and separated
from the next room by bed quilt, which
you must crawl under to come In or so out.
But it is my room, and after the joIing
have had upon the Indian pony, expect
to have a good night S.
Was ever poor pilgrim in such tx
Just as had9ritten nights above, and
had slept on the point Of my pen, | heard
knocking On the floor outside the bed
quilt: Crawl UNDER" said l.
Enter the landlord S daughter, buzom
young lady, about seventeen years Of age,
l should judge. She opened her rosy lips
and spoke as follows:
Mister, don't take off your clothes to-
night when you so to bed.
why 2"
Because [ am going to sleep with you. "
We'll, if you have no better reason than
| that"
Hush! Shet up! You told par that you
would nos sleep with a man."
Il had rather sleep with vet dog.
wv ell, have given up my bed to a sick
man. L have been hara at work all day,
and have to work hard ali day 10 morrow,
and | can't afford to set up allnigbt. IhaC
bed is wide enough for Us both. shall
! stay on the backsiGe, and If you d0u stay
on your side, you d better-that's all. :"
! As she said this she raised from her dress
pocket an internal jack knife, such rs farm
ers use IN trimming fruit trees, and then
let It TALL back with a chug. L comprehend
/ ed the situation in half a moment, and unto
this maiden / quoth IS follows:
Miss, young lady, your Intentions may,
or may not, be honorable. l am travelling
entirely by myself Ny natural protectors
are miles and miles away beyond the bound
less prairie, ignorant 81 the porils which
may beaet their idol Thus fax have not
been insulted by your sex. | am man Of
few words, but they are always emphatic.
l will give you up a part Of that bed, and
that's all will do. lfy0u attempt, during
/ the silent watches Of the night, Anything
contrary to this firm determination, by Saint
Joseph, my patron saint, [ will shoot you
| right through the midrif."
As | concluded, | laid slocum pistol
upon the candle>box. a loa chuckle out
side tie bed quilt gave evidence that patcr>
.ttmtiiaS had heard and approved the ar
raDgement.
My antagonist laughed, and saying,
mister, [ reckon we understand each
other, bounced over to thebaek side Of The
bed. There she is now, pretending to be
asleep. | cans finish this letter. | can t
do anything. Talk about the trials Of the
earlier saint5-about being brojlcd over live
coals-about being Huyod aive-about DC.
ing boiled in oil. Vi hat was all that, to all
this?