The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-11-21

we spuricd of into ShOrI lope'
al make note here of iact-namcl
Joke on horseback, an accelerate
follows | do not, however, wish
that the animals enter into the e..
In riding through the sage the Il
compelled by the punches Of bru>
form a continual Zigzag journey, " '
tcrfercs with any pace beyond wnlh
trot: so that we were soon forced t. 81
our gaycty of motion and resume IT,
progress, which seemed To call for -.
lion of conversation:
From what you toll me, Bill, ab"u ~.
queer fellows, feel inclined TO ride a.. .nd
see the men and the mine. What o." '".
say
"Not bit o. use. They won't LEI j.. "'"n
into the mine-ashamed OF il, rcck '."
you won't think of stayin' there all n'2GI..
"Why can't we stay there all night: "."I
got our own grub and bed"
"Oh, well, you could stay up th"'' p"'
you wouldn't"
Il don't see why
"You don't want to be eat up WIN !" 'N''
ers, if you sleep out of doors, anu YOU 80"
sleep in them fellcrs cabin there am ,"oh |
They live in hole in the hlIl'sla'' AN" t''|
hole is 80 small that one of em has To 20 Ia.
bed or 90 out while tother one pu,s on ~
coat or pulls on his boots. I've been NpI
there. Them little poplewood groves = IuI
Ter of m'skcetcrs than Mississippi swamp
bottom: and, in July, Nevada mountain
m'skectcr cuts like lancet aud sUtNN lux
leeCh.
"Wcll, well, William, if you've been 'hvrt,t
of course I'll not insist; but il we 10
come back this way I'll ride up and &c" the
bows"
"All right! I'm on it, YOU are in airncs
,papIip' n un " said XII rid .t.r'
forward to turn the packmulo.
mo, no; never mind Come back, Bill
Let the mule go ahead as he is, said |.
"Well,n said Bill, dropping into line again
"jist as you like. I'm none Of yer gro"Ir
that wants it all his own way, and can't hH. |
NOR a pards curiosity That's not me. i'e
can give and take, and allus do-oa Il trip, t
like this" d
lIcrcupon William proceeded to tell me-.
Us we rode along, of the various prospecting :
rips he had been on in the sage brush; in ;
erjecting his narrative with estimates Of hu- o
nan character worked up from quiet obscr Il
'aton of men in what he called close, hard Il
games" and "tigl places, from which man
lad TO fall back on his "Ore in reverse and
ust dig OUT or de--al Of which he con "
,ludcd with this piece of wisdom. Said he;I Il
"a man may live in a civilized country, and Il
&c as il0wcry, and messy, and sweet To- I
ook at as buttcrcup dell on n scashore
while all his life long he's
ippn' on the bedrock but Won bring that /"
nan into this dry country, where all the po- "
les die and the leaves burn up, and he j.
Don stripped so that, if he amt got the clean .,
.rit in HIM, you can pan him down till he r
Cters on bedrock in u week r
"Well, William, my boy, you've got the al f
antage of me, | think. You have had cX .
ericnCc in panning-bo'i mines and men A
lille never yet handled a pan !,
That's it, is it," said Biz, chuckling
was talking hyperbowl-bUt you'll see i,
{ you don't have higher or lover opinion "
me, and me Of you, when this trips over, "
zen | don't know the road to breakfast " "
rills II do social party, and made-up faces =,
ill pass IN church; but out in these noun ~
ins, you come right down to mamy'5 boy, /
BOD or bad. What YOU are, you are and y, y,
III amt no more, nor can't be" ~ -
William Wilson's conversation is not very u
irrcstng without William manner, cspec-
ny without his,pcCus;ar intonatiOn; which W.
tier, though making no disagreeably per ~
ptibIs suggestion Of battling, still has that y, "
tcrrogatver espOnsivee iaCnlatory style, not " "
actly Emersonian, yet bearing likeness ~
creto rs to require similar habit of elocU u,
N in reducing 1t to reading. For instance ~
&c many Pacilic-slopers, he has ut least six W.
Tvs of SAYING Eyes" --thvee ways of assent
2 with the word, two OF doubt and one, - a,
lich is neither asset or doubt. In this last ", ~
es" there is assent dissent doubt, admira- ~.
n and wonder -
| said 10 Bill after we had riddeA some III
Ic in silence, broken only by tie ringing o.,
gle on the great Spanish spurs on our ~
ais rs they mingled among the tops Of the I I1
lsh, or by tnc.yoicc OF Biz urging SanchO, us ;
pack
'i;ill, think ~ our luck 20 fu1S s,aving ~ -
ne on thi. trip
Eli lookc, at ne from under his hatrim 10
he swung rapidly round n u circle the u I'D
Gifted end of his pickctrCpe, and said, ~
-ye.e-usN
'Whai Ito you mean By THAI SinGOf yes p w. ~.
We'll | mean mean" looking straight ia
VI his hersc's ears, past the coils Of the ny IN
> rope, "Git ac.uV, SaEChl-l mean, i1s ~
AZ as ! can make out sort y YES, sort o no w
Il mel be so-I'm within -
4 don1 like that kind Of h yes, Bill. u
sn't much iaIih in IL" w
rhen Bill said. "So-o.uL7 with n poem. ul
cooling rising infection. III
. \ our no is as queer rs yOa.r yes - CA
Then Bill said: "l-y-e-c-GS, anti laughed "a
the sound of his own worls. re
$40 ycu think you used your words t&at ~
~ before Won came to California sa'
Il dun know Don't reckon dad, though 10
mink that kind of use in the words comes "
,m feller taikin' when no Is busy. If I'm sl'
II drift, pickin' and gaadin', and look!n' Va Va
il tor rocks overhead, and you are whcein' II
It. and you tell me sor>ethln' that DOM
low about, one way OF iother-can't agree IL
in full, nor yet 30 baGs on it-and ain II
1t much time talk, anyEay, | throw al the
,swer INTO one word N
That's new style oleloegtion, Bill, "
Don't know, never e1oculcd any myself
NJ ittills the bill rs Wei as sermon could"
There is not great deal to startlc the gaze a
f rider through the sage-bruSh where the o
ray of one valley has Us reflex in each other b
alley, and the ranges of mountains have, nj |,
rst view, about the sameneSS at burrows III u
ew.piowed field But. in the utter absence
fbright Creon pastures and the myriad seamy
,alms of lcafy woods, with the CLINT and gilt.