The Newtown bee., 1878-01-10

our chaps would sniff it out like yul
 lures, and be down upon it. -.-.. s
 It warn't no use to grumble, and VI
 Kept what we thought to ourselves, work
 ing away and making our ounces tht
 best we could. One day proposed wt
 should go up higher in the mountains
 but Hez said he'd be alarmed if he'd go
 and next day if he'd wanted me to go,
 should have todd him I'd be alarmed if I'd
 move; and all at once, from being red
 hot chums, as would done anything fol
 one another, Hez and me got lo be nor,
 tal enemies Now, look here, stranger Did you
 ever keep chickens P'r'aps not; but fl
 you ever do, just you notice this.
 You've got, say, dozen young cocks
 pecking about, and as happy us can be-
 smart and lively, an inncrcent as chick
 ems should be- Now, just you go drop a
 pretty young pullett in among 'em, and see if there won't be a row. Why, afore night there'll be combs bleeding, eyes
 knocked out, feathers torn and Tagged reg Tar pepper-boX and bowie set-to, and 'acause of that little smooth brown bullet, th't looks on so qHiet and gentle, as if wondering who made Inc row. Now that's what was the matter with us; for who should come into the Gu.ch some day, but an old store-kceper sort of fel- low, with as pretty daughter as ever stepped, and from that momant it Was all over betW cen EicZ and nc ..
 He'd got away with him, you see as l hadn't [, and they always made him vel kim at that thar store, when it was only "How do you do r" and Good morn ing" 10 me. 1 don't know Nhat love IS, stranger; but if Jael Barn had told me 10 go and cut one of my hands off 10 pleaee her, I'd ha' done it. I'd ha' done 1t. I'd ha gone through fire and water for her, God bless her and if she'd tied one ot her long, yaller hairs round my peck, She might have led ne about like a bear, rough as l am.
 But 1t wUuldn do. 1 soon see which way the wind blew. She was the only woman ill camp, and could have the pick, and she picked Htz. s
 l was bout .slartin' mad first time 1 met them two together--she hanging on his arm, anu looking up Ill his lace, Mr.- shipping him, greal, big, sllong he and as soon as they war got by 1 swore il big oalh us llcz should neyeg have her, and l plugged my x-shpoter, gave my 0owie whetling, and lay in wait for him coming back.
 "Now, iiez," says. ;'how about your darling now ?'You IL cut in afore better man agIn, will yer ?".
 Yes, if l live r he says, stout like, so as l couldu'thclp liking the grit lie show ad. That's right" he says; pitch me Jver, and theH go and tell litlle Jael what you've donC. Sht'!l be fine and proud Jt yer lhen, AbIadab Scales P ,ss- I
 He said that asI I'd got him hanging )ver the rocks, and he looked me full in he face, full of grit, though he Was helpless as Il baby; but I-didn'ty See his l face then, for what seen was the face 'f Jael, wild and passionate like, asking ne what I'd done with her love, and my leart swelled so that gave sob like d woman, as l swung Hez round into safe, y, and taking his place like, Shove ne ,yer," l says, and put me out or my misery a.a i.,.. ,.,., ,,-.,. --i-.,....
 Then he held out his fist, but couldn't ake it, but turning off, l ran hard down 'mong the rocks till dropped, bruised. nd bleeding, and didn't go back to my cut that night. ,s E,.g......
 l got bit wilder after that. Hez and 'ael were spliced up, and l allus kept way When wanted an ounce or two ! fl gold l worked, and when I'd got it
 used to drink--drink, because want d to drown all recollections of the | 'ast.
 Hez used to come to me, but l warn ed | i'm off. Last time he come across me, nd tried to make friends, "Hez,p says keep away, I'm desprit like,and 1 won't ay shan'tplug yer p
 Then Jael came, and she began to talk D me about forgiElng him but it only nade me more mad nor ever, and so 1 vent and pitched at the lower end of | he Gulch, and they lived t'other.
 Times and times I've felt as if I'd go nd plug Hez on the quiet, but I never i'd, though got to hate him more and lore, and never half so much as aid | so years arter, when I came upon him ne day sudden, with his wife Jaei, look ig pootier than ever, with a littIe white aired squealer on her arm An'it Tiled ! le above Dit to see him so smiling and appy, and me turned into bIood-shot, raving savage, that half the uich was feared On, and t'olIier half aren't face.
 ] had been drinking hard--fery Bour-