The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-11-11
How Newspaper Man Was'' Cor
rallied" by Landlords Daugh-

How a Newspaper Man Was'' Cor
rallied" by a Landlords DaUgh-
ter.
haven't dated this letter because I
don't know where I am. I am about
nine miles from Julesburg, at a 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. I suppose they learned
this disagreeable habit of early break
fasting from the "BuIl Whackers"
who have navigated these plains. I
am stopping at little hotel about
thirty by ten feet. The scarcest thing
in this country is lumber, settlers
having to pay ever so many dollars
foot for all they use, besides what
they brought in their valises.-The
landlord Is from Pennsylvania, and
seems to be doing thriving business.
By dint of hard talking and liberal
promises, I got room to myself 1t
is just large enough for the bed, and
candle-box set on chair, upon which
I am writing this letter.-It is in one
end of the building, and separated
from the next room by bed quilt,
which you crawl under to come in or
go out. But it is my room, and after
the iolting I have had upon the In
dian pony, expert to have a good
nights
Was ever a poor pilgrim in such
fix? Just I had written "night's"
above, and had sleep on the point of
my pen, heard knocking on the
floor outside the bed quilt. "Crawl
,under% said I.
Enter the landlords daughter,
buxom young lady, about seventeen
years of age, I should judge. She
opened her rosy lips and spoke as fol-
lows:
"Mister, don't take off your clothes
to night, when you go to bed"
"Why2'
because I am going to sleep with
you"
"Well, If you have no better reason
than that"
"Hush! Shet upl You told par
that you would not sleep with
man."
"I had rather sleep with wet dog"
"WelI, I have given up my bed to
a sick man. I have been hard at
work all day, and have to work hard
all day tomorrow and I can't afford to
set up all night. That bed is wide
enough for us both. l shall stay on
the back side, and if you don't stay
on your side, you'd better, that's all. D."
As she said this, she raised from her
dress pocket an Internal jack knife,
such as farmers use in trimming fruit
trees, and then let it fall back with
chug. comprehended the situation in
half moment, and unto this maiden
l quoth as follows:
miss young lady, your intentions
may, or may not, be honorable. am
travelling entirely by myself. My
natural protectors are miles and miles
away beyond the boundlPss prairie,
ignorant of the periIs which may be-
set their idol. Thus far 1 have not
been insulted by your sex. am a
man of a few words, but they are al
ways emphatic. 1 will give you up a
part of that bed, and that's all will
do. If you attempt, during the silent
watches of the night, anything con-
trary to this firm determination, by
st. Joseph, my patron saint, 1 will
shoot you right through the midriff. "
AS 1 concluded, I laid Slocum pis,
tol upon the candle box. A low
chuckle outside the bed quilt gave ev-
idence that pater famiIiaS had heard
and approved the arrangement
Ny antagonist laughed, and say
ing:
"Mister, I reckon we understand
each other," bounced over to the back
side of the bed. There she is now,
pretending to be asleep. 1 can't fin
ish this letter. l can't do anything.
Talk about the trials of the earlier
saints-about being brOiled over live
coals-about being fiayed alive
about being boiled in oil. What was
all that to all this?