The Newtown bee., 1881-01-12
M0ASICK'S PRE-EMPTION.

Well, no. She's not, exactly mine nor yet my wife's; but we claim her al the same."
 These remarks referred to 8 remark ably fine, not to say formidable-look young woman, who had just refined . l high mettled young horse out of the home gate into the downward lane. "Take the kinks out of him." said the old man, as he closed the gate be- ! hind the cavorting steed- To which remark the fair hcrsewoman made reply by flinging kisses from her whip hand I and dashipg away into Q cloud of dust
 "Yes," he said, in response to my further question, "she's my gal; but she's not my da'ter, nor she ain't my wife's da'ter.
 Brothers ?"
 No. No relation to either Of us by blood" "I dunno much what waif rightly { is. l call hel peremtion.''
 Do you mean pre- emption ?" l asked, gently.
 Well, no matter if ye call it 8 per- emtlon CT pree-emeion," he answered a shade testify. "What mean is. that 1 took her up as wild claim on the un- surveyed lands of the U. S."
 Wei" and l laughed a little as ! answered, that's another way of get ting children"
 Purty good way, though, if ye hap- pen to get the kind that suits ye as well as that'n suits me-"
 Seems to be fine horsewoman. I said, half musingly, as we were ap- preaching the entrance to the house.
 Step in," he said; "the doors cpen. and that shows ye the old woman's not 10 home; and the way she'll raise Cain, and lectur' on flies whe en she does come home will be music in this camn. yon bet you!" and the man chuckled in wardly until he developed 8. touch of asthma thai set him coughing in a way that was more comical than serioas.
 Now" said he, when he had re- covered, . let's go out to the barn and gee the colts. There is where I can talk best. Though ain't fust-class ta1ker no time, l can get on better when I'm seeing good, healthy colt reaching for
 reckon, now," he said, after having showE me his horses seriatim, 'syou're th'Aking I'd ort to tell you how per- Snted the gal that went out the gate on the jumping brown colt. Well, sit down here, and will tell ye; but fust I want to say word about that colt she's y K, woman cn him, that he's 8 picnic horse, and that all his cavorting is only frllls and passear doings, but I tell ye ne means 1t. He's a son of gun on hoots: I call him Quien Sabe, because don't know his pedigree. He had just as good 8 chance to be Belmont as to be 9 Patchen, on the side of the sire, ana which it is no one knows. His cam Was Abdallah and Medoc, and that E1nd of a mix. ye know, makes power and ambition till ye can't rest. He looks ana acts like Patchen, but goes like a Belmont. Lainey, that's my gals name, says he's the strongest, inginrub berest, long-bottomest hoss she ever had under her. And she's 8 judge. She's materially 8 judge as well as by expe- rlence. But l, for my part. wouldn't throw leg over Quien Sabe-not once flor the price of him, and I refused thousand for him when he was a two- year-old. He's rising five now, and Lalney's been riding him off and on for two years :"
 "Where did Miss Lainey, or, that is to say, Miss-Miss ''-
 Woods--Lainey Woods, that's her name: Ny name is Moasick. EIden
 "Ah! yes. Where, would ask. did Miss Woods find field for the develop ment of her peculiar talenten
 That's what I'm going to tell ye.n said Mr. Moasick; then, looking very seriously, yet somewhat comically, at me, he. shook his finger and added !" But don't ye ever fall into the idee that Lainey don't know much above or below saddle. If ye ever should tall into that idee and happen to be aeon verslng with her at the time, she'll take the starch out O ye mighty quick-and ye won't be the fust young fellow that's gone up the Hume that way.n And here the venerable Mir. Moasick had a very slight attack of risible asthma. When he recovered he said:
 The way l Iperemted Lainey was this. was in California when the Reese River mining excitement broke put Nevada in 1869, and wasn't doing much good. I bought cheap little Mexican jackass. packed my blankets. grub, tools, and cooking out ft upon his back, took the road behind his tail and went afoot into the Nevada mountains, away east of Reese River, determined to find silver mine had little money on hand and 8 little more a-coming to me from good men, when | started. sunk it all in two years and worked hard, but found nothing in the mining way wuth talking about. In the summer of '64 heardEof the drouth in California, and of how cattle and hosses were dying there of hunger, while where n was there yvaH sas,U