Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-03-02
Fl EVENING NEWS.
Tuesday EvcnIns.------.March ,, 1869
ShnkY.

A friend, writing from White Pine,
says: eve have been enjoying some of
the coolest kind Of cold weather here
the last few days. | say enjoying, for |
am in a good comfortable cabin with a
big FIRE place and plenty OF wood and
grub, but l can assure you there are
plenty of poor fellows here who don't
enjoy the thing much. The coolest live
man | ever saw was here last evening.
He came down from Treasure justin the
edge Of the evening, swearing that it
was cold enough up there to freeze the
devil out. He was long, big headed,
hungry-eyed b%ean-pols of u fellow, all
the way from the Wabash, and he could
walk, talk, eat faster and shivsr more
than any man | ever heard of. He stuck
his head into our doorway, and says he,
why hello this looks jolly, what's
trumpsT We says, swell, slapjacks is
trumps, just now, won't you como in,
stranger? He came in, crooked up
like a Grecian bender, and both hands
in his pockets ; aud my God how the
fellow did SILVER. He couldn't sit still
nor stand still for shivering. lie sat on
a block and shiyered at the fro Till the
slapjacks were done, and didn'tsay { no.
thank ye,' when We asked him TO have
some. lilo shivered up to the table, and
the way that Wabasher could lay slap
Jacks on his tongue and sling them down
his shivering throat without chnwing,
was terrible to contemplate. They
didn't do him u bit Of good, for he shiv-
cred so that he shook them straight
down to the roots Of his carcass without
tasting. lie was worse than a coyote.
lie wanted to pay for the pile, but We
said, never mind
Then he sat with both legs cock
billed up over the fireplace, till his
ID big feet came nigh shaking the
chimney down; told three Indiana sto-
ries in two minutes, and then he tried
10 sing "The Wandering Refugee,
but he shook so, and his big eyes and
head rolled about so comicnl, that we
all burs, out laughing. Then he shook
his big boots down to the iloor, and he
squared himself about, aud he shook
his finger ut us, and says he: Now,
p'raps you take me for II sucker may
be you don't know who | an. 1
Mint no dam check guerrilla, eft my
clothes amt good. I'll just inform go"
that I've been to college, and been a
professor of music, and right where you
put me out is just where the triple BARI
lone shake comes in. You Il just
chaw on that awhile and the NANCY
old coyote Strengthened partly up aud
shook himself out through the door II
slammed it after him.
Now, wen bet n thousand feet oil
Como stocks against an interest IN the
E~berhardt that this long, gaunt, hungry,
independent and shaky chap was Brier.
IL must have been him aud nobody else.
He didn't have four bits in his pocket,
either, or he would have been trying to
shake somebody out of the whisky long
before that time. This shaky yarn re-
mind. vs. of the fellow on the San
Joaquin River who got the chilis
fever trying to ranch it among the mos
oui,oes. He had the shakiest old aguc
on record. which is thus POLITICALLY de-
scribed
"And i. shook him, shook him sorely,
Shook his boots oil and his ~toc-nails,
Shook his teeth out and his hair oil,
Shook his coat all into ~tatters,
Shook his shirt all into ribbons, g.
Shirtlcss, coatless, hairless, toothlcSs,
Minus boots and minus ~toe-nails.
Still it shook him, shook him till 1t
Made him yellow, gaunt and bony;
Shook him till he reached his death-oed;
Shook him till il shufled for him