The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-06-09
The Idy1 OF Red Gu1ch.
From the Overland Monthly.


Esame attitude in which he had fallen
some hours before. How long he had
been lying there be could not tell, and
didn't care; how long he should lie there
was matter equally indefinite and un-
considered. A tranquil philosophy, born
of his physical condition, sufused and
saturated his moral being. ~
The spectacle of a drunken man-and
this man In particular---was not, L grieye
70 say of sufficient novelty in Red Gulch
to attract attention Earlier in the day,
some local satirist had erected tempo
rary tombstone a. Sandy's head, bearing
the inscription. Effects of McCorkie's
whisky-kills at forty rods witha hand
pointing to McCorkie's saloon. But this,
imagine, was, like most local satire, per
! sonal and was reflection upon the un-
fairness ofthe process, rathert than a com
mentary upon the improperly of the re
Isult. With this facetious exception San
dy had been undisturbed. A wandering
mule, released from bis. pack, had crop
ped the scant heritage beside him, and
shifted curiously at the PROSTATE man a
vagabond dog, with that deep sympathy
that The species have for drunken men,
had Licked his dusty boots, and curled
himself up at his feet, and lay there,
blinking one eve in the sunlight, with a
stimulation Of dissipation that. was i1ge-
aious and dog like. in its itnp piled fla; tcry
OF the unconscious man beside him.
Meanwhile, the shadows of the pine.
trees had slowly swung around until they
crossed the road, and their trunks barre
the Q .5en meadow with gigantic parallel
OF black and yellow Little puffs Of red
dust, lifted by the plunglng hoofs of
passing teams, dispersed In grimy show
Ter over the recumbent man. The sun
sunk lower and lower; anG still Sandy
stirred not And then the repose of
tins philosopher was disturhed--as other
philosophers have been-by the Intrusion
OF an unphilosophical sex
" Hiss Mary" ;.s she was known to the
little fock that she had just dismissed
from the log school house beyond the
Iplnes-Was taking her afternoon walk
Observing an unusual fine cluster Of bios
SONS on the azalea bush opposite, she
crossed the road to pluck it--plcking her
way through the red dust, not without
hcrce shlVers of disgust, and some ciN-
cumlocution And then she came sud-
denly upon Sandy!
| VI course she uttered the little st0ccGt0
cry OF her SEX But when she had paid
that tribute to her physical weakness she
became oyerbold and halted for mo-
ment-at least six feet from this monster
with her white skirts gathered in her
hand, ready forhight. But neither sound
nor motion came from the bush. With
one little foot she then oyertu ned the sa-
t1rlcal head board, and muttered "Beasts!'
An eplthet which probably, at that mo-
ment conveniently classified in her mind
the entire male population of Red Gulch.
f,or Miss Mary, being possessed ofcertain
rigid notions of her own, had not, per-
haps, properly appreciated the demon
strative gallantry for which the Callfor-
man had been so justly celebrated by his
brother Californuans and had, as u new
conner, perhaps fairly earned the reputa-
ton OF being stuck up"
! AS she stood there, she noticed also,
that the slant sunbeams were heating
Sandy's head to what she judged to be an
unhealthy temperature, and that his hat
was lying uselessly at his side. To pick
1t up and to place it over his face was a
work requiring some courage, particular
y as ms eyes were open. Yet she did IT
a aa,.l naaue gooq nef retreat. But she 1eit
SONY itas coneFtneu' on looking pack, 70
&C. silas sne na1 was removed, ana tnat
thing
The truth was, that in the calm depths
o. oan l' nina, ne was satisfied that the
sun rays were, penenclal ana healthful
' .na' iloin cIilunoou' lie nad opJected 70
iyih9 Gown III nat ana tnat no people
opC condemned Tools, past redemption,
ever wo. e, hals ana tnat ms right to DIS
pense Win tnem Wnen ne pleased was