Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-08-15


point by checking it off on his fin
ger ends. "This vein, or lode,
or ledge, or whatever yon call it,
runs along between two layers of
granite, just the same as if it was a !
sandwich. Very well. Now, sup
pose you go down on that, say
thousand feet, or maybe twelve
hundred lit don't really matter),
before you drift; and then you start
your drifts, some Of them across
the ledge, and Others along the
length tit, where the SulphuretS
II believe they call them sulphur
cts, though why they should, con
sidering that, so far as | can sec,
the main dependence Of a miner
does not so lie, as some suppose, but
in which it cannot be successfully
maintained wherein the same should
not continue, while part and parcel
of the same are not committed to
either in the sense referred to,
whereas, under different circum-
stances, the most inexperienced
among us conld not detect it if it
were, or might overlook it if it did,
or scorn the very idea Of such a
thing, even though it were palpa-
bly, demonstrated as such. Am /
not right?"
said sorrowfullv: al feel
ashamed of myself, Mr.. Ward. /
know | ought to understand you
perfectly we'll, but you see that in
fernal whisky cocktail has got into
my head, and now cannot under
stand even the simplest proposition.
| told you how it would be-"
"0h, don't mind it, don't mind
it the fault was my own, no doubt,
though | did think it clear enough
for"
"Don't say a word. Clear Why,
you stated it as clear as the sun to
anybody but an abject idiot, but it's
that confounded cocktail that has
played the mischief"
"No, now don't say that. I'll
begin it all over again, and"
" Don't now /; for goodness sake
don't 90 anything of the kind, be-
cause l tell you my head is in such
a condition that | don't believe
. could understand the most trihing
question a man could ask me-"
"Now, don't you be afraid. ri
; put it so plain this time that yov
, can't help but get the hang of it
: We will begin at the very begin
ming" Leaning far across the ia
BILE, with determined impressive
: ness wrought upon his every fea
7 ture and fingers prepared to keel
. tally Of each point as enumerated
, and leaning forward with painfu
! interest, resolved to comprehend o
, perish. You know, the vein
: the ledge-the thing that contain
the metal, whereby it constitute
the medium between all othe
forces, whether Of present or re
mote agencies, so brought to bea
in favor of the former against tn
latter, or the latter against the for
8 mer, or all, or both, or compromis
, ing as possible the relative differ
! ences existing within the radiu
y y whence culminate the several de
= grees of similarity to which
) said: ooh, blame my wooder
L head, it amt any usel 1t amt an
: use to try! | can't understand any
! thing, The palmer you get it tn
J. more can't get the hang Of it.
' | heard a suspicious noise behin
= me, and turned in time to Sc
!. Kingston dodging behind a news
I = paper and quaking with a gent
; ecstacy OF laughter. looked
y " Ward again, and he had thrown o
= !, his dread solemnity, and was laugh
! ling also. Then saw that / ha
! been sold-that | had been mad
. the victim of a swindle in the wa
. of string of plausibly worde
y sentences that didn't mean any
!. !. thing under the sun.
= Artemus Ward was one of tn
y best fellows in the world, and on
~ ~ of the most companionable. 1t hs
70 70 been said that he was not fluent
u conversation, but with the aboy
y, experience in my mind, | differ.
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