The new North-west., 1881-01-07

| of our eyes, katooter would be half way up
the gulch and lighting out like q freckled
Greek Slave, hunting for cheap clothing
Gs1i afitst Va ,,sdli b mid aherhin ana try to
tirt MN o,itNYid cSrf him, but He was most
t9o skipfqlIs and aPpalensls ase ALFRED anx-
I ious TO put all the Intervening distance he
could between himself and the fuzzy taran.
ttulasIssE t.it sty.erf cnaRefsthat he made
| the light mountain air.
u ~Then another thing, when we got to him
he was so pesky mean TO hang on TO.
"You've probably tried before now, when
you was small, 70 catch tho boy xbo- lied
your shirt 10 the top limb OF a dead tree, and
you have thrown all your energy inte,tlse ef-
| fort, but you decided after a while to- Npejt
TILT he got his clothes on Before You punished
him. THg
"Thats the way IL was with Katsoler.
He was'the sfnartest man I ever tried to
gather into the fold. We'd think we had
him, and all at once he'd glide betHeen DIR
of laugh that would run the thermometer
down 13o, and away he'd glimmer. up the
trail like red-headed right ofway.. : -
$50 got mad at last, and used to chase
him with lariat and Yellow Fever.
"Yellow Fever was sorrel mule that be-
longed to the firm. We called him Yellow
Feyerbecauser be wa, so fatal, III
i aWeh, when fellow Fever ana me got af-
ter Katooter with the lariat we most always
gathered him in., IBless my soul, how I'm
stringins this yarn ont.
"Weli, TO make a long story short, Katoot-
erraHied after while and during the spell
Lisfchilblains were convalescing and some
more new skin growing on his system where
l. lnv IL he's
brush and falling iHto old deserted prospect
holes. had an offer of S50, 900 for my third
In the Feverish Hornet and sold.
a Then Il went down to 'Truckee and
bought a little house of an old railroad man
down there, grubstaked myself forthe winter
and allowed I'D lay off till the snow left the
range In the spring.
"One night, about half after II, Judge, /
heard spplsbpdy step along 10 We window of
my boudoir. Hearing 1t at that time of
night reckoned that something crooked was
going on, so / slid outof bed. md got my
Great Blood Searche: and Liver Purifer,wth
tie new style of center-fire and cartridge
ejector, and Slid up to the window, calcula-
ting TO shove a tonic ints whoever 1t might
be that was picnicing around my claim.
al looked out so as to get good idea of
where / wanted to sink on him, and then
thought before manged him I'd ask him If
he had any choice about which part Of bis VI
tails he yantedf to preserve, sol sings out to
him:
"Look out below there, pard, for I'm 60
ing to call the meeting to order in minute
Just throw up your hands, If you please, and
make the grand hailing sign of distress, or
Ill have to mutilate you! Just show me
about where you would like to have the fatal
wound, and be spry about 1t, too, because
IIye got my brief costume ON, and the yeyeu--
ing air is chill pi@ "
lie didn't understand me, apparently, fora
gssg,ias ss laugh s'ps sss wssa om selsrnd
"iHuilo, Fatty, is that you9 Just lookin'
to to sss ,Ss S & ys .sSDS saSS wss
Ss 4S l. s.sSs ,s q ssss sss4 ias sIs
hnsT Y Theirs srs tssvshs sas and two sec &C.
.tions of nine. Skinney'll take out first seven
and Shot ysll pull heI with 102. It's you and
me for second seven, with Limber Jim on
front end and FrnnriIy TO hold dVwn tbe ca
boose. First five y. wrong side up ina wash
otit this side or OgaflaIa, and old Whatshis-
name that runs 25s got his crown sheet caved
In and telescoped his headlight into the New
Jerusalem. You know the little Swede that
used to run extra for Old Hotbox on the en-
igrant for awhile? Well, he was firing on
25S and he's under three flats and coal oil
tank with break beam across his coupler
and his system more or less relaxed. He's
gone te the sweet subsequently, too. Rest
of the boys are more or less ,demoralized and
side-tracked for repafn. +. Now you don't
want TO monkey around much, for If you
don't loom up like six bits aud 30 out on the
tick, the old man'll give you time check
and the Oriental Grand Bounce. You hear
thelmeliow fhrin bf fmy bazooTlI Il
"Then slowly uncorked the Great Blood
Purifier, and moving to the footlights where
the silvery moonbeams could touch up my
dazzling youtiines said :g Pardner, Il am
pleased ands gratifed to have met you.
don't know The first ding busted thing you
have said to me, but that Is my misfortune.
am a plain miner, and my home Is In the
digestive apparatus Of the earth, but for pro-
fdpionsl MELODY of the chin you certainly
takethe cake.% You also rake The cake bask
ct and what cold pie there Is on the dump.
My name is Woodtick Williams. I discover
ed the Feverish Hornet up on Slippery El-
lum. am proud to know you. Keep right |
on getting more and more familiar with your
and bye and bye, when nobody |
can understand you, you will be promoted |
and respected, and you will at last be a sleep |
Ing car conductor and revel In the biggest |
lneatal calm and wide shoreless sea Of intel-
lectual stagnation that the world ever saw.
Won will y8K9&AA&ks&s@
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| ~ HThenI took "a pillow-sham and wiped |
some of the pulverized crackers of the soies |
'f my feet and went TO bed In large COB of
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