Connecticut western news., 1881-08-17
THE MOUNTAIN WILD Doc.
FRANK TERRY.

THE MOUNTAIN WILD Doc.
 Yes, stranger, them was lonesome days fur me till found Jake, an then him an me went halvers after that, and I never cared for no more company nor his. Why, stranger, that dorg'd got m ore soul into him than half the white men in the gulcb, an don't you forgit it. I've had some tight pulls over the route, you bet, stranger. but never had nothin' lay over me like partin' from that dorg.
 How did I form his acquaintance?
 Wall, I'll tell you. You see, me and my pard had gone up the gulch to pros pect on our own hook, and afore we'd ben thar a month it commenced to snow like the old hlazes, an it kep' on snow in till every dsrned object In the coun- ty was buried, includin' my pard, who was took with infiermation of the lungs one night, and had ter pass in his checks next day, 7, ....
 g3You bet them was lonesome times. I longed ter ante up, too, and lie down in the snow alongside of Pard, but my time hadn't come, an so jest held on by the skin uv my teeth till that storm let up, and I'll be bless'd if didn't hang round that white grave of Pard's worse nor a woman, an y'u may not believe 1t, but put my head down on his old traps an shed more of the briny nor crocodile. May be y'u ain't never been shut of from the world in wild kind uv gulch, with everything as still as death, an watched the snow a pilin' mp higher, n higher, with, awful silence over the corpse of y'ur only friend. I tell y'u, stranger, it takes the courage clean out of man an makes him banker to be- come angel an with the angels stand.
 Wall, by n by the snow stop'd com in down an begun tn feel the cravin' nv natur' fur somethin' substantial tn eat, so takes my gun one mornin' an goes out tn prospect fur game. ltramp'd up inter the forest an about the first thing I seen was lean, lank, ornery yaller dorg settin' in the snow howl in like thunder. Ses I:
 cold hoss, y'ur bout as lonesome a lookin' critter as these regins kin pan out, exceptin' y'ur's truly. Y'u don't handsome much, but I'd like tn form y'ur acquaintance if agreeable tn y'u.
 But my beauty didn't make no impres. sion on the animal, an as soon as he
 spotted me he took to his heels an lii
 out of that camp quicker'n lightnin' | Wanf hunted round all that day, bu
 didn't see no more of mister dorg, nol not much else; but the next day wen
 to the same place tn try my luck agin
 an by thunder, thar sot that yaller purl
 kinder waitin' fur me, I fancied. Thi
 time he didn't seem so scared like, bu
 after scootin' of tn safe distance h.
 turned round and surveyed me. "Wall
 Pard," sez I, "how du like the indica
 tions? Perhaps y'u'd like tu dine oi
 some hard tack, neighbor," sez l,
 throwin' him hunk uv stale breadth
 last rations in the gulch.
 He took no notice uv the provisions
 but kep 8 contemplatin' me as eff h hankered more after society nor he di
 for good square meal. But I couldn , git no nearer tn him, an by'n'by Jeff settlin' in my mind tn meet him ne1 } day. An sure 'nough, next day thar b was, as eff he understood the appoin ment, but he warn't no more familis : than afore, an I kinder felt hurt at hi , coolness.
 Wall, that day shot some game al I leave big slice fur mister dorg thu that night when we parted company
 Next day come agin and found u f meat gone an friend dorg settin' C : the spot whar left it; ben settin' tn }, all night, reckon. Soon as he see n e he wagged his tail in a mournful, dow
 hearted way an moved of kinder as he didn't quite trust the indications ye r That day I left a good square meal f .- Jake-I called him Jake after dorg It had on the old place to home when W U U a boy-but I left it considerably nigh ' " my ranch nor I had afore, an just wh ,r that meat was dropped thar I found Ja it next mornin'.
 e "Ah ha, old fel r sez I, |" I've got t of bulge on y'u at last. Y'u jest foller tl '' lead an it'll fetch y'u whar y'u strike 7 rich"
 g, Wall, by slow degrees coaxed u ?, lonesome, hungry yaller dorg to my dr ss .1s out, an in 8 week we was fast frien' "A an you can bet y'ur bottom dollar
 was fond of each other. Wharevel u' was, there was Jake jam by, as faith F an lovin' as a woman. a ,c. When spring come, me an Jake " th out placer minin' up the gulch an
 right down on the luck, an fur the n