Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-09-07
\ MINERS STORY.

Ne an some of the boys was out pros
! pectin. After week Of the cusSedest
luck we come back aggravated and dis
gusted with everybody and everything.
1t was nigh onto midnight when we
struck camp, and just about as chilly us
you'd care to have it. Jim Curry, or
Big Jim, rs we most generally called
him, was a standiu' outside with his
arms folded across his chest looking
loncsomer than Id ever seen him afore,
though jim was one of the lonesome
kind. always incoming by hisself. If
you'd ask him what he was thinking
about he'd say jest one word, Home"
wait mint, boys" says he, taking
the pipe out of his mouth. Don't so in
yet-theres something in there"
He spoke in skeered kind O way,
and we all gathered ~ound him wonder
in what had happened.
sit down, for know yer tired, and
III tel We what's up" says Jim, in the
Solemnest tone.
We dropped on the log outside the
tent and waited, curiously, for him to
speak.
"WeIl, boys" says he, heaving a
long sigh, might afore last was sittim
jest where you are, feeling awful blue
thinking o the little ones East, when all
Of sudden l saw amite of a thing staud-
;n., n",r n,a tell Won wos sI,naraa
fn~ Mimi ThnmCh1 Snra 'twasthe ghnst
NJ ' ona IF mvE;' - >' '-'~'
He kind 4 xulp-I something down afore
he could -av children.
Il put inv hand out. touched the
cr;tter, and found was alive. Where
did We coH!e from sonny" SAYS |. at a
venture, not knowing whether twas a
sonny " 4 >:>sy. 1t GrtchcI my hand
and saws in a Suraky vuic Tome.
mamr,S' went WITH i and it wan,
derri around: 'DearrH 10 DE looking
for something. Purity soon | spied a
woman. >itt.n' n the -r,und. leaning
aviD = tree. WE'LL Won mjrht have
knocked me over with a straw I
WAS that astonisheL. Good evening,
ma'am. saws L. as polite As if there was
a hundrpd ewes inokino NJ II, instead
of only the bio sIiuy moon and a
thonsand twinbIiu' .iars. She didn't
answer, 50 ! went = STEM nearer and
saw her face was white as-as-I was
golh 70 say s5tet' "ul II WAS M1iltel Il
any sHSeC We seen iatei!' iien l
PlCNeu her up-tntie warn no nloLe
he4t 10 Her til''" |" " l,:oH any olousnL
her INTO camp, the mite trolteh along
aItet me ,l,, ln,,.
Aoe was GG'olTI up Oh I'le puilaIo
Skill sHGTlh me 3Ii ."IlE' give niin
d ~. ne J""'p0" ny <''i'' oes''ii uo-
ON ms eyes 7o,
trapped some game jim
get llShI ana YOU II see says
laying ne imp cTltleF on me rug
he maze llSLt' ana "heh ne causLt
slGIl ol Ely game He gave y ell 4lhe d
VIC 1L7lH. ,,,
20, holf PoAel' JILL "n"le V nilo
H. s sG ne. ,;..;, pu
OIt IneIe sLtiili us'il a : :t ;.; Pits Pits
the wv WHISKY, ana lets see II us deau.
we ruoOeu I'ei tlallus, SpuSe" "atel
IN her lace, ana put raw Whisky IN her
mouth. Aof was ioI ? t1ta r 1 .eI
lTocK' put l sa4u NO, Ii sue COMES 700 90
she II 90 II hersell; II she oead-" Ii;
we InouSht ol our own Milllllcil loIAS'
an k!Iu C4!ere't ile' up an "altGu'
..,, AltG r. aMntie sne saSe d S'sn'
oPetIeH ITl ?HTo s'it;t Iu al
~ 20 ? dli IIsi III LID ''ln' SAYS y Hou &C
Will 1l'el'us'
'Then she put her hand out. an /
hGM on1 m"t ~ a0 EN- 1T Th cino thl
tIin', sat starn, with it, bio eVes not
S Sp'i % VOID hronrbt + oyar and
T';+ : rbnro cba conId toncb II and
p pUv ;i"+ fIt s"rr,- ~ goo tha Iooi that
cou -" 40 b,r ,rh;to f3ce C,ot ~ "f
oTd .a a a,,' ,i3t # IN her 5no,1tb b1