The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-06-24
SELECTED MISCELLANY.
A SIERRA WEDDING.
BY JOAQEIN MILLER.

BY JOAQUIN MILLER.
It was late in the fall and it certainly
must have been a cold, frosty morning, for
Sandy's teeth chartered together as if he
had an ague when he told the Judge In
fact lie stood around the Howliag Wilder.
ness more than half a day; but he could
not, or at least would mt, drink, though he
die very many foolish things, and seemed
i'll at ease and troubled in way that was
new to him.
A last he got the Judge cornrred He
took him by the collar With both hands, he
backed aim W in a corner, end as he lid
so bis teeth ehattered and ground together
a, if he stood half naked on the everlasting
>aow that surrounded them. lie pushed
his face down into the red apple-Ifke face
Of the magistrate, and began as if he was
about to reveal the most terrible clime IN
the annals Of the wo~.d. Al the time he
vas holding on to the Judge with both
hands aS if he feared he isht not listen to
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Good, goodi''
Tba I,J.,. aro,y . 1co., hro,.h IT.
s,,elI, 4 out almost Instantly t,no,rgv t,ica
bis uegal Importance. You could have seen
ann orav. l. MAS now ,Le .Julso'. turn
10 fav hold Of Sandy. For pox ~ the
great, strong man had accotrr!i,hod hi
tearfni tlsk. told hIS secret, usd doue all
HAT vas necessary to do, lie wanted to get
.aAav, to 80 home. to 20 unvwL ere aud c,l
ie.t his thoughts and to rest. The JuIse
held him there, told him the great adyuu-
rages that would come oI' IT. the high re
spou>ibiity that he was about to pat hi,
shoulders to. and talked to him. n fact.
till he grew white ana stiff as IA signpost.
Yet all that Sandy could remember, for
almost all he said was something about
"Ihe glorious climate Of Calfornv."
Never rode a king into his capital with
such majesty as did the Judge that dav
enter the Forks lie was swelling, burst
Insr with the importance of his secret. But
now he had SANDY, permission to tell the
bows. and he went straight to the Iowling
Wilderness for that purpose. His face
glowed like fire as he stood there rubbing
his hands abova the o,.at ,,,,n,;oc, ,,,,o
and boving rirLt and left IN n natrnrizing
sort Of a way To the miners who bol sam.
tered into the saloon.
At lat the little red-faced man turned
his back to the fire. stuck ri, two hands
back behind bis coat tail, which he kept
| lifting up and down and tanning carelessly,
as If in deep thought: stood almos. on tn.
to-, stuck ont his round little belly. and
seemed about to burst With his secret.
'Oh, this wonderful Calfornv climate"
lie ruffed little as he said this. and famed
hi, ccat tails little bit highe. perked ou,
his belly little bit further, and stood
there as II he expected some one to sneak
But, as the miners seemed to think they
had heard sometime like this before or ar
least that the remark was not wholly new.
none of them felt called upon to respond
"Wru"-the little man tilted uron hi,
toes as he said this, and took IN lone
hreath-s'his comes off about the first snow
fail"
! lie bad SAID these words one at a time
and by inches, rs it were-slovlv. dshber
I attly, as if be knew perfectly we'll that he
( had something to say, and that men were
bound to listen.
/ This time they all locked I'm. and hall
0! them spoke. And Oh! didn's he tor
ture them! No: that he pretended to keer
bis secret Of half day--not at all Ga tht
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