The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1869-07-23
A California Yarn.

There Is q fellow over at CrOunu-
hogs Glory who has II rich claim for
sale. sam. Hodges heard oi il the other
day, and went over there 10 see wfat
The chances were for makinii a good
bargain Sam. is dissatisfied sort Of :;
fellow, and is always trying 10 buy into
something rich. SO. rs ! was saying. he
bulged right over Grouudhogs Glory
the moment lie heard oi il.
When he got there lie found that the
owner OF The claim and his wife had
gone OH visit 10 another family in the
Big Bug canon. The only pers III about
tie place was small boy. about IL years
old. From him Smn obtained some in
formation which the owner rhilnscllnigEt
mot have communicated.
Sam went down with the boy and took
q look at the claim. While he was cast
ing his eye about, the boy sat on y liank,
whistiing "Oh. Gosh, my own Jemlma.'
Having finished survey. sam went
up and set down beside the innocent ju-
venile.
"Iub," said he, 'I'vc heard that this
is rich clam. and II does look pretty
wcll--now, 10 tell the honest truth what
does your father want 10 sell out II II s
so rich rs they say
The small boy stopped whstlinr,
cooked his head Oh one side, closed one
eye and squinted at sam with The other.
stranger. have YOU got half dollar
about you! If You haze. perhaps !
wouldn't mind telling yon.'
sam iorkcd over the half dollar, and
the boy looked at it a moinentand whis-
tied Get out OF the Wilderness
"Wcll. fcllcr, bein rs its YOU don
'obicc' 10 saving that the reason that dad
want. to sell this ere claim is cause it's
100 ricl."
TOO rich" PLAYED out" put in Sam.
! "Now, stranger. you est bold youi
hosscs till &c, through. rnd III explain
Z il 10 YOU. You see this ain't Ike claims
where the gold is in n sandy gravel and
! mostly in The bel rock. but the bank here
Iis nearly all clay, and there is heaps gobi
%. Inc gold ell through il. The clay i
ihc all-icgcdcsi, siickicstt stuff that ever
:lwu7. and YOU can't begin 10 work it,
Nv hon dad gets 10 work down there hi
: NATURALLY gets the ,iarncd stuff All owe
him, when lie comes in at night he's jus
: coated with it about i1 incEc, deep. NOR
tor less, aud this clay is plum full OF gold.
II Il don't see HAT that's any reason.io
,lhis wanting to sell out, intcrruptc
q sam.
Wei. old boss. you keep cool an
= don; get rampagious, an J II tell yo
how Il is. When dad comes in at niah
: lhc', mighty tired: but mann. You See.
such an awful oconom.ca. woman th;'
e She don't like 10 src - mt:s j gold waste
as dad has abou, him IN ihc clay ever
t,.tt In "a
clcars him ~. .it first She used 10 h
q hoe anL banning him out. They mad
.llot- OF money ut that. liruScd topan on
q rich. tell You. Iut pretty soon man
lgoi rusatislcd, cause il took too lchg I
= pan h.m out every night. and besides. ii
l,liGnt get hall the gold. The clay VIZ
ieiso sticky that Il wouldn't wash good
.iIhrn size got u string OF ss.iiccs cut j
'd front Of ihe house and pat up 4 little h,
!. Idrulic, and used 10 pipe him OF. DE-
l-Iwas dreadful mad alOnt ii; YOU ouel
10 hear Linn growl and cusS. He said
was too wearin 10: a man to work III ili
drain ali day ana then he worked hissc
at night lie had 10 give in, though mar
N said he should've board with her it Il
.ldidn'i. and thai fctcl.cd him you bet.
O.! "lhings ran cA in lhis way for SON
time. The old woman made two {
II three hundred dollars 4 week rcg 'lar-
Eut. rs tod you before She was awti
4 sayin'. and she found she couldn't pill
him clean. and lost ever so much III tn
q. taiins. Iou don't know how sticky ii
mt clay is around here. The only way
which Won can work il clean is 10 chnc
IT, il into Il kit;lc OF bilin' water. aud h'le
inr two or three hours. That's The wa
re the fellow that first struck the caiia use
10 work The rich cicvices. Nam licar
il OF this, and she though. IL she cou'
work the old man in. some such way \
ut could save the gold. pf course Il
didn't expect 70 bile him right down. 70
nc know; that would not have bcenc exact
on lie square. but she thought II =
q could let him stand in niddin water Il
an hour or two every night shc could ~
on him through the hydraulic then, al
re, wash him or pretty clean.
"Well. stranger, you mi.hint think
but dad was 81 pesky contrary that
wouldn't do IT, Nam said he'd got TO {
OF il, cause she wasn't goin' to see mono
w thrown away by no such conilafiless.-
Neither one OF them wouldn't give i
)s- so they concluded they'd split the dille
re- cncc by lettin' dad sell out and 90 beio
" and buy ranch.
tn "That's jest how It is, stranger. Ifyt
irs amt married and want 10 buy this claii
Won can make a might. good advantage