Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-16

ond brooan boots, with faces unshavcd
ond tbe dirt and dust adhering to us,
WE looked like pirates. A familiar way
that Mat had OF wiping things of on
us was also beginning 10 show its eff
fects upon car persons. The student
had three distinct impressions of the
bottom of the coffee pot in tho mid
die of his back, and was literally
painted. This was in consequence OF
a grudge which Mat bore me, because
/ ventured at one time to demonstrate
with him for attempting to clean the
| frvine-pan on my trousers leg. A
roar Of laughter was the result OF the
| mutual inspection. =,
"Something occurs to me-" said the
stndent when we had once more re-
sumed our gravity, 81 believe l know
where there is white shirt"
"Wheie p came in an eager chorus.
"The guide-that Dago who took
usup to Glacier Point yesterday-he
told me that j ohm Muir, the geologist,
gave him one last spring. lie proba-
BLY, has it yet" sE
"Can you get it?' we asked.
81 will try" e
~ think" said Visalia, knitting his
brows and speaking very deliberately,
| as if trying to recall some isolated
fact from oblivion, "I think know
where there is black coat"
We are all attention.
81 saw one," he continued. "down
at Hutchinson's few days ago, in the
cooks room, hanging near the Win
| dow; believe can reach it if it is
still there"
Magnificent p exclaimed the stu
dent, in utter obtuseness to the real
significance of Visalia's remark "all
we want now is a pair of pants.'
Before we went to sleep that night
it was decided that, on the following
day, each man should start out on O
forging trip, the results of which
were to be shared equally between us.
To me was assigned the duty of pro-
viding a pair of pantaloons, and my
instructions were to beg, borrow,
or steal, but not come back to camp
without them, under pain and penal
ty too originally vicious to mention
/ succeeded, however, without resort
ing to desperate measures, and wa:
the first to get back to camp with my
prize. Mat came next with vest and
q large green necktie, and lastly
Visalia and the student put in appear
ance, each with bundle of some de-
scription under his arm. We compar-
ed notes and found that we had
enough to dress one man.
1t is unnecessary to state where the
articles came from, or to describe the
uproarious time we had that evening
around the fire, relating our foraging
experiences, and try to get o fit out
of the heterogeneous articles we had
secured. The pantaloons had evident
ly been made for giant. They came
clear up to the students armpits, and
there was then, as he remarked, room
enough left in them to accommodate q
bale of hay. The shirt and vest
worked very we'll; but the coat
which Visalia had secured was short
and narrow, and absolutely refused to
cover up the great folds in the volum.
inous pantaloons, and its sleeves did
not reach much below the elbow or
the smallest man among us. Taken al
O whole, the outfit looked best on vi
salia, and it was consequently decided
that he should go in and take the first
dance, the rest of US awaiting oul
turns outside.
About nine o'clock we went down
the river and crossed over the bridge
into the town. The hotels and store!
were lighted, bombs were bursting
and every body in the valley-Indians
included-was out in his best war.
paint and feathers. A temporary
dancing floor had hcen laid near on
of the hotels, inclosed by canvas anl
evergreens, and a band stationed with
in sent music out into the night tt
mingle with the murmur of the wa
terlalls. We could see the shadowy
figures of dancers through the can
vas, and hear the patter of little feet
What made it all really unbearablt
was the discovery that the town wa!
full of swells, i'll law-hammer coats
an kid gloves, who were going il
and out from the dancing room, anC
III liking themselves merry with young
ladies ON whom we believed we had
primary claim.
Nisalia was, however, equal to tn,
emergency. He took our blessing ant
left us, disappearing through the doc
of the tent. For half an hour ou
. | Sis cll>c WAS ICdIlul, dIu tuCu d UaS
" shadow fitted past on the canvas
ami then we knew Visalia had fount
Il partner. a few moments afterwar,
he made his appearance, looking saw
age and desperate.
"What is the matter3" we asked.
"Nothing, nothing" he replied, sit
| your turn next, 1 believe, Governor,
addressing the student, and he bega
, to divest himself of coat and vest a
, rapidly as possible. -
, The figure cut by the student whe
he had donned the garments whicI
, Visalia threw him was something in
, describable. have never been able t
1 understand how he had the mora
: courage to go into that ball room, an
f can only account for it on the suppo
, sition that he did not know what I
: fright he was. Visalia forgot his ill
,, humor and lay down on the ground Il
: laugh, and Mat and suffered as W
never suffered since. The student
however, was not to be dismayed.-
He threw himself into the breach, AM
we lost sight of him. We imagined
that we heard o smothered laugh q
! he passed through the door, but W
forgave the claw-hammers, knowin
that nothing human could bear tn
sight unnioved. We could hear, how
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