The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-11-27
zEPH PARKER,s srRATEGRn.

oiocpy, uooy-Aocco Sot peOple
Air they! Baby-faced enough, you bet
but I tell you, Stree, that 1 believ,
they're 'beout born with all their ey'
teeth cut in their celestial jaws; an,
yewve got to get up airly, sir, if yo,
want to take in Chineer'
The speaker was q hard-faced, hol
low-jawed gentleman, in glossy blacl
suit, which fitted him very badly. ant
the remark was made in the smoking
room of the " Continental" There b,
was to be seen daily, and he was sup
posed to have "given the speckylator,
fits in iles;" in other words, he was be
leved to have made fortune in petro
leum. At all events he had plenty o.
money, and was very generous in the
spending of it. 4 - - =.
: The conversation had turned on the
vexed Chinese question, and he haG
struck into the discussion.
81 reck'lect," he said, "ther wa.
Zeph Parker. He was q deep nm, was
Zeph! He was long % me and few
more up to Nevada, JUS 'beout the
time of the silver craze. The boys had
been washing for gold; honestrliks,
meow gittin' it out o. pockets, meow
outer the stream; and when they'd done
with q bit o. wash dirt, and gone off to
another claim, Mister Wsshee Washee
Chinee would come and go over the
dirt after them, and be satisfied with
what he got. Then come the silver
craze. All ON us goes off and loses AL
we'd made in gold, gifts no silver, and
comes back disappointed to try after
the gold again. -
"Guess we might try and try again,
but no gold could we get; and all 'beoui
us was them smooth-faced, pig-tailed
Cinnamon, gittin' on prosperous and
contented. -. 49,
".I tell yew,' said Zeph, 4 shall 90
and murder one, o. them smilin' tea
pots. can't stand it much longer!'
"This here was in our bit of q tent,
where we were trying to make our
selves happy, playin' poker on credit
and keepin' no account"
." What ferr / sez."
"sWhat forr cries Zeph. Dew yew
think that /, an enlightened sitterzen OF
Q free country, am gwine to set down
and be robbed % my mess o. golden
pottage by pack o. smilin' washer
woman-faced opium smokin' celestial
Jacobsf No, Stree. this dogs gwine
to bitter
"But I don't kinder see what this
dogs gwine to bite fur sez. Tea
pot amt done nothin' to you.
as Mateys,' seq Zeph, getting on the
barrel as had been his seat, things has
come to a purity stand pass with US,
heven't theyr -...
fright. old hoss,' sez some one,
the chest lid as had been our
table. --- ..
".Haz any man here got any tobac-
cor sez Zeph. = -..-...
"Nor 90
".Haz any man here got any old
Bourbon whiskyP'
".Nop --s.-. -t
"'Haz any man got any dustr
".Any flour, or pork, or boots. OF
new blankets?" -''-
"'No, no, no, nor -ae =
"'Then them Chinese has, contin-
ued Zeph; and what sez is this-as it
is q sin and a shame to let q pack of
cusses like them teapots, as
never goes to churches nor listens to
r'1.r. 't
"' say, Zeph.' sez some one, when
did you 60 to meetin' lastp' -..-.. o.
80 Never you mind sez Zeph, sand
don't interrupt q man as wants to give
you suthin' to eat. A set o. cusses,
sez, as never goes to meetin' and
b'ieves in nuthin' but loss s-houses.i
say it's sin to let 'em be gittin' fat on
our land, while we're as thin and
as-as-as-'
AS ole Zeph Parker himself sez
Tom Paggins. hsr' "a va t.e1
oval, ez thin ez am, if you like.
sez Zeph. .,, - '-...-,f
90 This is all very purity 1 seq. but
we can't go and take claim from the
teapots, Zeph; nor we can't rush 'em
and annex the dust and nuggets they've
washed out -.
-" No. said Zeph, winkin' one eye;
but we kin strategise 'em.' TssN.S
...HowP' sez. Don't kinder see
it. They're too deep to be DONE
"'Yah!' sez Zeph, they're 'beout
ez deep ez a two-cent plate. Give me
the means and III sell the lot and put
a good pocketful o. dollars or dust in
every mans pocket-six on usr -
But what means dyer wantp
sez. -.
"'One handful o. Dust sez Zeph.
And where are we to get itP'' sez
Tom Paggins.
"' This how says Zeph. Morrow
every man hyar's got to go
round the camp and cadge. Tell the
boys we're hard up, but we've got a
good thing on. They'll subscribe a lit
tie all reound. Yew see if they don't. >
.Well, we'll try sez we; and we
went to sleep hungry and got up rave
nous.
There was nothin' for it but to go
to work, and off we went, getting back
to our tent about eleven o'clock, when
five out of the six had got q little gold
dust was the unlucky one, being q
bad beggar, and had got none. -