The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1869-09-18
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Correspondence Of the Louisville Express


BY a Landlords Daughter.
Correspondence Of the Louisville Express.
II haven't dated this letter, because don't
know where / am. I am about nile milsz from
Julesburg, at y little settlement ON the South
Platte river. At day light tomorrow am 70
catch some Of the finest salmon you ever SAW
They will not bite at any other time OF day.
suppose they learned this disagreeable habit OF
early breskfasting from the "Bull Whaekers."
who navigate these plains. I am stopping 1t
little hotel about 80 by 10 fset. The scarcest
thing In this country il lumbsr, settlers having
10 pay ever 50 many dellars foot for all they
want besides what they brought in their valices.
The landlord Is from PennsylvGnia, and soems 70
b doing thriving business. BY dint Of hard
talking and liberal promises, got room to my
sek. Il il Just large enough for bed and can.
die box SGT ON . chair upon which am writing
this letter. 1t il in one end Of the building, and
separstsd from the next room BY quilt which
you must crawl under to come in or 80 ont Bat
it i ny room, and after the jolting have had
upoa tho Indian pony. expect TO have good
Wa ever poor pilgrim in sush 6x3 Just
q + hsd written night above, and had fallen
sslsep on the point Of my pen, heard . knock.
ing on the aoor outside Of the bed-quilt ''Crswl
under" said I.
Enter the landlords dAughtss, buxom young
lady, about II years Of age, should judge. She
opened her rosy lips and spAke - follows:
Mister, don't take Of your clothes tonight
v. s%SgT e; 80 70 bed.
"Bscsuss I am going to sleep with you"
@Wsll. If you have no better reason than
that" +. # 47
"Hu.h Shss up You told par that you would
not sleep with man."
II had rather sleep with . wet dog"
all / huva - a tn n ar m n.
have been hard At work all day, and have 70,
work hard all day tomorrow, and can't a8osd1
to Get up all night That bed u vide enough
for u both. shall stay on the back side, and
you don't stay on your side. you'd better that's
A she said this she raised from her dress an
internal jack.knife, such as farmers use in trim
ming fruit trees, and then let it fall back with
chug. I comprehended the situation, and unto
this maiden quoth - follows: 80.
"lis young lady, your intentions may or
may not be honorable. am travelling By my
self Ny natural protectors are miles and miles
away, beyond the boundlsss prairie, ignorant of
the psrils which may beset their idol. Thus far
I have not been insulted by your sex. am .
man OF few words but they are always emphatic.
viii give up part of that bed, and that's all
I will do. If you attempt, during the silent
watches Of the night, anything contrary 70 this
6rm determination, by st. Joseph, my patron
saint, will shoot You right through the midriGs"
A. I concluded, laid Slocum pistol on the
candle box. A low chuckle outside the bed-quiit
gave evidence that pdter1amilias had heard and
approved Of the arrangement
Ny antagonist laughed, and, saying sinister,
I reckon We understand each other" bounced
over to the back side Of tho bed. There che II
nov, pretending to be asleep. can't finish this
letter. / can't do anything. Talk about the
trials Of the earlier saints-sbout being broiled
over live coals-sbout being aayed alive-sbout
being boiled in oil. What 10 all that to all this