Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-09-22
4 sierra Wedding.
~ JOAQUIN Mti,EE.

~ JOAQUIN sIl,rE.
IL was late IN fall. and II certainly must
have been a cold, frosty morning. for
Sandys teeth chstter.d together a. il he
had an ague, when he tod tine Judge. In
fact, he stood around the iIowling Viii
derness more than halt q day; but he
could not, or less: would not, drink,
Though he did very many foolish things,
and seemed ill-at-ease and troubled in
way that was new to him.
At last he got Judge cornered. lie took
him by the collar with both hands, he
backed him up in the corner, and as he
did so bis teeth chartered, and ground to-
gether as if he stood half naked on the
everlasting SHOWS that surrounded him.
He pushed his face down into the red
apple like face of the magistrate, and be-
gan as if he was about to reveal the most
terrible crime in the annals Of the world.
All the time he was holding on to the
judge with both hands, as if he feared he
might not listen to his proposal, but tear
away and attempt to escape. "Good;
good"
The judge drew a long breath. He
swelled out almost instantly to nearly
twice his usual importance. You could
have seen him grow. 1t was now the
judges turn to lay hold Of Sandy. For
now As the great strong man had accom-
plished his fearful task, told his secret,
and done all that was necessary to do, he
wanted to get away, to go home, to 60
anywhere and collect his thoughts and to
rest. The judge held him there, told him
the great advantages that would come of
it, the high responsibility that he was
about to PVT his shoulders to, and talked
to him, in fact, till he grew white and
still a. sign-post. Yet all that Sandy
could remember, for almost all he said,
was something about 1.-THE glorious climate
of Californy."
Never rode king into bis capital with
such majesty as did the Judge that day
enter the Forks. He was swelling, burst
ing with the importance of his secret.
But now he had Sandy's permission to
tell the boys, and he went to the Howl
ing Wilderness for that purpose. His
face glowed like fire as he stood there
rubbing his hands above the great, mount
ing blaze, and bowling right and left in a
patronizing sort of a way to the miners
who had sauntered into the saloon.
At last the little red-faced man turned
his back to the fire, stuck his two hands
back behind his coat. tail, which he kept
lifting up and down and tanning care
iessly, as if in deep thought; stood almost
on tiptoe, stuck out his round little
belly, and seemed about to burst with his
secret.
ooh, this wonderful Californy climate p
He pulled little as he said this, and
famed bis coat-tails little bit higher,
perked out little bit further, and stood
there as if he expected some one to speak.
But, as the miners seemed to think they
had heard something like this before, or
At least that the remark was not wholly
new, none Of them felt called upon to re.
spood.
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toes a. be said this, ard took in a long
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