Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-26


quested to draw up an agreement which viii
be submitted to the lines for signature at ar
adjourned meeting to be held on next Tues
day.
A GENTLEMAN OF La PORTE.
The First appearance of One Who Became
a Justice of fthe Peace.
Bret Harte in Belgravia.
He was also pioneer. A party who broke
through the SHOWS in the winter of 81 and
same upon the triangular little valley after.
ward known as La Porte found him the sole
inhabitant. He had subsisted for three
months on two biscuits day and few
inches of bacon, in hut made of bark and
brushwood. Yet when the explorers found
him he wes quite alert, hopeful, and gentle
manly. But cheerfully make way here fol
the terser narrative of Capt. Henry Symes
commanding the prospecting party: awe
kem upon him, gentlemen, sud
dent like, jest abreast of rock
like this" demonstrating the dis
fance-''ez near ez you be. He sees us and
he dives into his cabin and Games out agin
with tall hat-a stovepipe, gentlemen,---
and, blank me, gloves! He was tall. thin
feller, holler in the check ez might be-
and off color in his face, ez was nat'ral, TAX
in in account his starvation grub. But he
lifts his hat to us 80, and seZ he: Happy to
make your acquaintance, gentlemen! I'm
afraid you ex- per fenced some difficulty in
getting here. Take cigyar.' And he pulls
out fancy cigar case with two real Hava-
mas in it. Il wish there was more says he.
eye don't smoke yourself?' sez /.
Seldom sez he, which was lie, for
that very afternoon I seed him hangin' onto
a short pipe like a suckin' baby onto bot.
tie. Il kept these cigyars for any gentlemen
that might drop in.'
"I recon you see great deal Of the best
society yer,' sez Bill Parker, starin' at the
hat and gloves and winkin' at the boys.
"A few Indians occasionally sez he.
"Iniinsp sez We.
"sYes. Very quiet, good fellows in their
way. They once or twice brought me game,
which I refused, as the poor fellows have
had plenty of hard times of it themselves
"Now gentlemen, we wez, as you know,
rather quiet men rather peaceable men
but-hevin' been shot at three times by
these var good iniins, and Parker hisself
havin' matter O. three inches of his own
skelp lying loose in their hands and be walk
in around wearin' green leaves on his head
like Roman statoo-it did kinder seem ez
if this yer stranger was piayip' rather low
down on the boys. Bill Parker gets up
and takes a survey O. him and sez he peace
ful-llke:
"'Ye say these yer Injuns-these yer
quiet Injins- offered yer game?'
"'They did sez he.
"sAnd you refoosed
"sI did, sez he.
"sMust hev made 'em feel kinder bad
sorter tortered their sensitiy' matters p sez
Bill.
"sThey really seemed quite disappointed.
"sIn course, sez Bill. 'And now mout
ask who be you p
"Excuse me- says the stranger; and
darn my skin if he didn't hist out keerd-
kase, and handfn' it over to Billy, sez
Here's my kyard.'
"Bill took it and read out aloud, j. Trott
Kentucky
cts pooty keerd,' sez Bill.
"Pm glad you like it, says the stranger
"'I recken, the other fiftyone of the deck
ez as pooty-all of 'em Jacks and left bowers,
sez Bill.
"The stranger sez nothin', but kinde,
draws back from Bill, but Bill ups and sez:
"sWot is your little game, Mister j. Trott
of Kentucky?
"I don't think quite understand you, se2
the stranger, boiler fire comm into his
cheeks like ez if they was the bowl of 9
pipe.
"Wot's this yer kid glove business?-thi
yer tall hat paradin' this yer circus foolin'
Wot's it all about? Who are ye, anyway?
"The stranger stands up and sez he: "El
don't quarrel with guests on my own land,
sez de, 4 think you'll allow I'm-a gentle
man., sez he.
"With that he takes off his tall hat and
makes low bow, so, and turns away like
| this; but Bill lites out of a suddent with his
right foot and drives No. 10 boot clean
| through the crown of that tall hat like one
| O. them circus hoops.
| sThat's about ez fur ez l remember
| Gentleman thar warn't but one man II
that hull crowd ez could actooally sweal
what happened next, and that man nevel
told. For a kind O whirlwind jest ther
took place in that valley. I disremembel
| anythin' but dust bustlin'. Thar wasn't NJ
yellin', there was no shootin'. It was one o
! them suddent things that left even six
shooter out in the cold. When | kem to il
the chapparel-being comfortable iik
from heyin only half short OIL fount
nigh on three pounds O. gravel and stones il
my pockets and a stiffness in my ha'r.
| looks up and sees Bill hangin' in. the fork
of a hickory saplin' twenty feet above me.
"'Cap,' sez he, in an inquirin' way, 'he
| the tornado pasSed?'
"sWhich, sez /.
"eThis yer elemental disturbance-is
over?'
"I reckon sez /.
ssBecause,' seq he, 'afore this yer electri.
cal phenomenon took place / he'd slight
misunderstanding with stranger, and Tde
| like to apologizea
and with that he chimes down, peacefn
like, and goes into the shanty, and comes
| ont, hand in hand with the stranger, sfnilfs
like an infant And that's the first time,
reckon, we know'd anythin' about that gen
leman of La Porte"