Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-08-02
JERRY SCHOOLING,
While Stupefied with Love u Calf
Swallows His Shirt,

Swallows His Shirt.
Several old-time Nevadans were talking
over the political outlook on the street in
Eureka yesterday with reference to the
nomination of a man for Governor by the
Democrats. A good deal of speculation
was INDUCED in about the "dark horse"
which some friendly Republican journals
have been intimating will be trotted out
to take the nomination in case there should
be more than two candidates before the
Convention and it should turn out that
neither Adams nor Canavan can be nomi-
mated. This is all bosh, of course, for it
is extremely unlikely that there will be
more than one ballot, or that there will be
any candidates before the Convention ex-
cept Canavan and Adams. But it does not
require much ground for speculation in
politics and the inevitable dark horse ="
business came to the surface in the con-
versation. Jerry Schooling vas most
talked of in this connection. "Honest
Old Sorrel Top" as Gen. Kittrell called
him in the Convention four years ago at
Carson, the mar who had a wallet in his
pocket that contained half the States
treasury and would not use a cent of it
when {" broke in San Francisco, but pre-
ferred to borrow a stake to get back home
on instead. The temptation to reproduce
a portion of exits speech on that occa-
sion is irresistible. Jerry is a big man,
but easily moved by o~ratory; and as Exit"
sailed aloft in a kind of rhetoric that he
holds a monopoly over, it sounded like a
funeral Grafton and brought great tears to
Jerry's eyes, who sat disconsolate on o
back seat with head bowed down on his
inseparable companion, a stout hickory
cane, grown in Missouri. He was with
drawing Jerry from the list of aspirants
for Treasurer. Said Kit: "Mr. Chair
man, during the last four years of arduous
official labor it has monthly fallen within
the purview of my duties as a public SER
want to assist in counting the moneys of
this great commonwealth. Now, Mr..
Chairman, I ask the question, and nswer
it myself, where was honest old Sorrel
Top on these occasions? Sir (here Jerry
broke down completely, Kits fervor liter
ally melting him)-he sat there, sir, and
saw the money counted u
But to the story which one of the street
politicians told of Jerry's early life in Mis-
souri,. Jerry was born in that State and
started life naturally. AS most boys do
uOWu tlleIts WHtlo ~ Is uOJt III WllbEG
shoes and fine personal apparel used to be
too high for the nut of the plebeian kid,
Jerry wore nothing during the season of
dog days but a tow shirt-a long one with
one button at the neck and enclosing him
to the heels. Jerry loved a girl, but was
too bashful ever to mention it.. His Dull
cinea lived in a cottage near by, whittier
he used to ramble barefooted and his shirt
sporting in the breeze, and take sly peeps
at her. One day he went softly up to the
cottage door, and finding his love standing
at a spinning jenny with her back to him,
he stood watching her, transfixed, while
his soul went out to her in silent adora-
ton. His eyes dilated and his mouth
slowly druled love drops. Alas there
came a rude shock to his ecstasy. While
he looked and druled in blissful uncon-
seriousness of every worldly thing but the
girl at the spinning wheel, a calf had come
up behind him and taken hold of the skirt
of his only garment with its mouth. 1t
started in vigorously to chew and swallow
and swallow and chew until its stomach
became distended with Jerry's shirt, but it
kept right Oh swallowing more of it. In
making one grand effort to take in another
mouthful its cold under lip struck the
flesh of Jerry's hot back. In the mind of
our hero love Immediately gave place to
horror. He did not lose a moment, but
turning tail he placed the hungry calf be-
tween his exposed person and the girl at
the wheel. With energy supplied by de-
spair he dragged the destroyer Of his bliss
down the hill a hundred yards, extracting
a mouthful Of his shirt from the beasts
nav for every two or three frantic leaps
and jerks that he made. He finally re.
covered his clothing, all moistened with
bovine saliva preparatory to digestion.
He says he never could summon up oour-
age enough to look behind to zee whether
Dulcinea had observed him in his awkward
flight. He drew such a picture of himself
in his own mind as he fled with the calf
attached to him that he never dared to go
near the girl again, or hardly ever think
of her,