Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-28
HoRsE-TRADING EXTRAORDINARY.
The Boys Relate Their Experience Arouns
the Camp Fire.

the Camp Fire.
(Salt Lake (Utah) Tribunel
A lot of old veterans was sitting by com
Portable lire the other night in o certain Utal
camp, cuiling over the husks of memory aud
revamping old experiences of entertainment
Trading Hank, after irriSating at the bar
said !:
See here. boys, guess none of you evel
come as near turning up your toes as did the
time | had that spell of -"
"Ob, give US rest on that and tell us how
you cheated them tenderfeet in Nebraska ou,
of all that hossaesh 7" said powerful mine,
from a corner of the room.
"Pll be dipgswizzled, pard, eff you hadn'i
better put your words close together wher
you slash at me. Pm kaocker from Knock
ersville. am. and don't you forget it ~
Well, was born about four miles below
there, Hank, but l didu's mean no insult
But if you want to flop. why just fly your
kite p
AL right, Pete, me and you has been
friends too long to fight when no insults
meant. So here goes for the story
Il was lvin' near kearney. Nebrasky,
tryin' my hand at poker and hoss tradin' for
Twin. Some fellers from Cheyenne came
along and cleaned me out of my money and
every DANCED hoss I had but kickin' Dick.
1t was a fair game, though, and 1 couldn't
grumble.
"The next day after that game | went to
town on kickin' Dick. The Sheriff comes ur
to me and sez, Hank, guess III take tina,
hoss on this execution
Hold on, Bill. sez I, wouldn't you rather
have the money!
Every time, sez he.
"'Wei, just watch me trade awhile and I'll
soon give you the cash.
80 ii rioht old man in he
There were q lot of tende rfeet in the
town, the greenest lot you ever seen. They
had just cleverly got settled in the country
| So went for 'em.
"Wel, boys, 1 traded seven times thai
afternoon, and had money enough befor,
night to pay off the execution of 500, ane
went home on kickin' Dick with 500 more il
| my pocket. You see, that hoss was the ter
| riblest kicker and bucker in the world. NJ
| man but nae could ride him. He could almos
| kick the molasses out of ginger cake, anc
| up his toe nails. Every time l traded Dicl
got boot, and always charged boot to tax,
him back agin.
"But, as [ was sayin', when Pete cu
| through the drift, when 1 had that bad spell
| year ago, came pretty nigh goin' over the
| falls. 1t was down to Provo. I'll be eter
nally expluncti6ed eff 1 didn't git skesreG
| when the doctor said l had to pass. The
folks where l was stoppin' sent for one OF
them sky pilots, and the fellow prayed fo,
me. 1t sounded like free gold to me, too, |
can tell you. for / didn't know nothin' about
the country where they said was goin', and
ruther had a hankerin' after stayin' here g
little longer. Well, the doctor, bid me good
bye and went away, but Mollie-that's my
girl, you know-she didn't give up in that
fashien.s
"Hank,' says she, Pm goin' to rub you
with st. Jacobs Oil; l believe it will cure
you
Gentlemen, may I be hugged by bear
if that there stuff didn't just save my life as
clean as wheat. I'm givin' you the word
with the bark on it, sure. It does beat all
creation how that Oil kr ocks the fur Off
rheumatism That's what had, and If it
hadn't been for St. Jacobs Oil I'd been pros.
pectin' in a new country now. I'd like to
shake the hand of the feller that makes if,
would, by thunder"