The Newtown bee., 1881-01-12

no use, and hnalIy l gave her 8 rOpa'S- end in each hand, which suited her mighty fine, until she got too sleepy and laid down on top of the pack and fell pack to see that she didn't fall of. ! Fl didn't reckon that we should go far without hearing inquiries for lost child, yet, as passed emigrant wagons, and was passed by other emigrant wagons, they had none of them lost child or heard of child being lost.
 :" My little procession wasn't quite so solmen after we got Lainey, cause the dog, instid of walking behind with his tail dropped, now marched ill front, with tail and head up; and Canary, cal culating to keep up with the dog, step- ped s heap more lively than he did Ilnre, and ye hee-hawed splendidly. And now if ye think that when Lainey was stan ding up on top of Canary's pacK that we wasn't some circus, yer mi sta ken.
 don't know what the emigrants and stage-drivers took me for-whether they thought was Mormon running away from too much wife, or a wid- derer in distress, or a man what had killed a family in order to steal 8 gal baby and 3 jackass and black Gog-but I took myself for man with power ful responsibility on his hands.
 "The fust two or three days I was awful feared I wouldn't find any one to take Lainey off my hands. Then, by jing, began to dread meeting or find ing any one who would take her. And at last, to tell ye the truth, I left the regular stage-road and sneaked off over the Sierra into California by an old abandoned route.
 "1 got some changes of clothes for Lainey here and there from emigrant women, piece at time, and by the time I got down into the coast counties COW counties some calls 'em-I was might handy in taking care of that young lady.
 ''I got down to my stopping place well on into November, turned my jack out on a ranch, rented little cabin in 8 little town-not such very little town and went to keeping house and attend ing to my hoss speculation. l hired en old Mexican woman to look after Lainey when wasn't at home.
 "At last it came Christmas day and I had Lainey by the hand, going up stocking, when we meets lady, and down drops that lady on her knees on the boardwalk right in front of us, and, reaching out her arms, sine said:
 "' Lainey Woods! Lainey Woods! Thank God, have found you at lastp
 "And that lady took my baby into her arms and began kissing her.
 Well, it cut me SO to the quick that l started away without saying one word, and would have left, but the lit tie one wouldn't stand no such nonsense, and came a-crying and tearing after me, dragging the woman by the hand.
 ToS1 won't stay wiz nobody but him.
 Well, you see, to shorten long story, the lady and me talked it all overflow she was Lainey's mothers friend-how the Indians had killed -esi1aoJ 1zaotheI, ssIId how disease and grief had killed tie father-.how disease had prostrated the friend-how Lainey had wandered of in the desert Tn the night-how part of Lainey's fathers property consisting mostly of fine brood mares, was left over in Nevada, tenn porarily in charge of the Overland stage company-in fact, how all this business man to look after 'em. So it came about, one way with another, that I married the lady, fathered the child and got into the hoss business.
 Which being just about what I wanted to do, makes me free to say that my wild peremtion in the desert was pretty lucky lay out"
 + es. indeed, very lucky" said.
 But now, after all, don't it seem to you as if the black dog went off in the night and stole that young 'unp' Here the venerable Moasiek had slight asthmatic paroxysm, and as we walked toward the gate out of which Quien Sabe and his'rider had made their pictur- esque departure, he finally succeeded in saying:
 s'Wall! That brown colts yours for just what told you. Say the word and I'll hold him for you for mos any reasonable length of time .''
 said the word, and I'll put up the money, but Pm not going to be in any hurry about taking ''that brown colt :" away from the scenes of his childhood. If were 8 married man it might he different-but I've got my eye on Moasick's Pre-emption. sa6e 9-Spirit Ot the Tunes.