The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-06-24

stood up by the eide of the red little man
and locked down at him as if be. would
ike to eat him for piece of raw beef.
A tall, fair boy went back to bunk
against the further wall, where the bar
keepers bulldog lay sleeping in his blank
et>, and put his arms about his neck, and
put lis face down and remained there
leng time. Perhaps he wept
There was great big hairy head moved
out of the crowd and up to the boy. The
head rolled on the shoulders from side to
side, as il it was not very firmly fixed there
| and did not particularly care at this pay
ticular time .iletEer it remained there or
not. A big fist fell like stone on the bar
The glasses jumped as if frightened half to
! death; they ran up against each other, and
clicked and huddled together there, and
fairly screamed and split their sides in their
terror. A big mouth opened behind an
awful barricade of beard, again the big fSt
| fell dow, again the glasses screamed and
| clicked with terror and the heal rolled
sidewise again, ard the Zig mouth opened
again, and the big voice said.
'By the bald-headed ElJnb!' and that
was ALL
Then there was another calm, and you
might have heard the little brown wood
mice nibbling at the old boots and the
leather belts and tin cans slowed away
among the other rubbish up in the lot of
the Howling Wilderness.
( Then the fist came down again, and the
! big mouth opened, and the big mouth said.
/ SO and loud and long an3 savage, like the
growl of II grizzly:
"Swailer my grandmother's boots!"
| Then the man fell back and melted into
the crowd; and whatever romance there
was in his life, whatever sentiment he may
have had, whatever poetry there was pent
mp in the heart of this great Titan, it found
no o,her expression than this.
The gcnteel gambler, who sat behind a
table, with his green cloth and silver faro
boz, forgot to throw his card, but helG bis
arm poised in the air till any man could
have seen the jack of clubs, though a
thuuSand dollars worth Of gold dust depend
ed on the turn. let all this soon hal an
ent, Of course, AMI there was a coDfusioa
of tong les and noise thqt settled gradual
~ over a.-anst the bay. Even there it was
,ftrrwarI ran,rked 1hou,b the men really
int4ra.tai Ala rot know r. st rho TIM. that
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(. mb4r Tim was there in tGelr midst.
bat was a sad and silent man. PERHAPS
he had been told all about it before. and
perhaps not. linn was not "a tdIkcr, bat Il
thlnk er. This to him meant the loss Of his
partner, the man he lcve,t-=a divorce.
Poor bmher! be only backed up against
the val, screwed his back there, twisted
oneAeg III behind the other, stuck his hands
IN behind i'm, and so stood there until he
saw man looking at him. Taen he f1pp-
ed or with his face to the wall, dug Up
his great pencil from bis great pocket, and
! tell TO writing on the wall aud trying to hide
his face from lis fellows.
! Rather suddenly, hin't it, Judge?"
| "Well, not so sudden--not so sudden,
/ considerin ths--this--tLis glorious climate
/ Of Cdliforny."
/ be wedding day came. The camp bad
/ been invited to man. There was but one
/ place in tie camp that could hold 1.-THE
/ cf its people, ard that was the How ling
! Wilderness. The plan had been to have
/ The wedding under the pines on the hill;
! but the wind came pitching down the
mountain, with frost and snow in Its beard,
that morning, and drove them to the shell
ter. What place was that Howling Viii
derness! 1t was a battlefield, prize-ring
| dead house, gambling hell, court house,
/ chapel, everything by turns. There they
stood, side by side and hand in hand before
the cracking fire, before the little Judge
| The house was hot. It was crowded as
thcK as the men could stand. Tighter
thaa sardues in tin box tie men stool
there bareheaded, with hardly room to
breathe. The fat little magistrate was
terribly embarrassed. lie had sent all the
way across the mountains by the last pack
tram, by the last express, by the last man
who had dared the SHOWS; but no pack
/ tram, on express, nothing had returned
with the coveted, the so o-much needed mar
! rage ceremony and service. which he had
resolved 70 read to tho naorIa. irtarsnorsad
with such remarks ard moral observations
as the case might REQUIRE. AIas the form
of the ceremony had not arrived lie had
nothing # the Kind r. ,pido hin, uld