Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-12

TAresgk fatsrs Astams-tinsi
"a :sln IL cari:
Aud tandex hsapaing eyOt
An ieavn b. hsart
MnAkias Psnpkin pies! -
THE FLOODED GULCH
IWasn't newer meant for no sailor, /
warn,t; but I come of = great nation,
snd when ! chap out our way says he'll
do : thin9, he docs Il. / said I'd 20 to
-, and ] went-and thar you are; /
aid I'd drop hunting, and take 70 min
In, and thar / was; and that's how it
colno about.
Won re, NJ Wa rather rough out our
vay, where Hez Lane and me went with
our lit Of tent and pickers, shooting
irons, and sch like, meaning to make .
pile OF g0ld. We went TO Washoe, and
didn't oct on; then We went to Fort
Laramie, and didn't get on there. Last,
~ went right up into the mountsin,
p1cking our way amongst the stones, tor
Hae ~: Look here, old h0M, let's
coAWhas no ones been afoFe. IL We get
whas the boys are at work already,
thoy've took the cream, and We gets the
skin milk. Let's you and me net the
cEsom, and let sDmc O. the others take
the kim milk"
GOOD ior you," IMays; and We
tsampod ON day artGE day, till We got
iight M in the hsart o the mountains,
wkese ID one hadn't been afore, and it
was 3 still and quiet - 1t made you
quite deaf.
II was I strange, wild sort of place,
Lille - II one 0f4Aem c0ons called giants
had driven Z wedge into Z mountain and
split IL, making 4 place for = bit of =
sfrcam 10 run ct the bottom, aud lay
haso the 9old We wanted to find.
"ThiSll do, Dab" says Hex, - we put
up our bit OF tent ON . pleasant green
deli In the steep valley place. "This'Il
Do Dab; thar's yaller gold spangling
them sands, and running in veins
through them rocks, and yaller gold in
the rockets Of the rocks"
"1hen let's call it Yaller Gulch," l
aDone, old hossl" said Hez; and YAH
lsr Gulch it is.
We set to work next day washing in
the bit Of = stream, and shook hands on
cur good luck.
"ThiSl do,n says Hez. We shall
make q pile here. No one won't dream
Of hunting this out"
"Eay, sfrangerr" saysa voice as made
us both Jump. "Do it wash wells"
And II there warn't : long, lean, ugly,
yaller-looking chap looking down Ut US,
ashc stood holding . mule by the bride.
Why, aforc Z week was over, 80 far
from keeping it snug, | reckon there was
30 people in Yallcr Gulch, wasfling away,
and making their piles. Afore another
week was over some one had set up q
store, and next day there was = gam
hing saloon. Keep il to ourselves!
Why, stranger, / reckon if there was a
rpeck Of gold anywhere within Eve hun
dred miles our chaps'd sniff it out like
vultureA and be down upon il.
II waFn't no use TO grumble, and We
kept what we thought to ourselves,
working away and making our ounces
the beAt way We could. One day / pro
posed We should 90 up higher in the
mountains; but Hex said he'd be blamed
II he'd move; and next day, If he'd
wanted me 10 20, | should have told hin
I'd h. blamed II I'd move; and all al
once. from being rcd-hot chums, q.
would have done anything for n an
other, Hez and me got to be mortal enc
mics.
Nov, look here, stranger. Did 20,
ever keep chickensf P'Paps not; blu
II you ever do, Just you notice this
You've got, ~, . dozen young cock
pecking about, and a. happy ~ can be-
smart and lively, an inherent .
chickens aheuld be. Now, just you z,
and drop = pretty young bulletin among
EN-, and zee If there went be q row
Why, af0re night there'll be comb
bleeding, eyes knocked out, feathers tori
and r1ggcd-a reg'Ar ~pepper-box an,
bOwis sst-to, and afl 'acaase Of that littl
smooth, brown pullet, that looks on q
quiet and gentle, u If wondering VIII
made the row. Now, that's what wa
tho matter with rs; for who should com
into the Gulch ONE day but an old stors
keeping sort Of fellow, with as pretty
daughter u ever stepped, and from tbs
moment IL VA al over between Hex an
nj.
HID rot away with him, You sen, a
hadn't; and they always made him we
kim Of that thar store, when it wa onl
How do ron DOR and GOOD morn
ing,n 70 M. ] don't know what love j
atFnnSees; but IL Jael Burn had told n
"a HUamd cut one Of my hands OF /
n1eana 49, pd has dona IL I'd hi, nor