The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-06-07
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hs,ysviie 10 tar, = had
- 70 - . nos.,
49, Ut 81 otkr 49, ilss 9 li1s
pl1Ded With pesC1nea - Co,sjado
hSApt voo1d stUsrA Ibtolls1 in'o
. eaRple roem and the barkeeper had
the SAssk to elk twenty-five cents for .
ten cent glaas Of whiskey. I took the
whbkey and twenty-five cents In silver
~ sseouatesseit half dollar. Ydu hive
no idea what terrible har1ships We poor
tramps have to endure, and to what In
suits ws arc daily subjected. Why,
after leaving the sample room / found
myself getting hungry. I had . TOW
dollars, but taking into consideration
the high price for whiskey you could
not expect me to waste my money on
food, % I applied II house and asked
for some supper. The lady called mo
in, bat, w"uld you believe II, the hard
hearted creature actually gave me
bread without batter; aud apple pia,
but no swoetened cream over It. She
he'd NO meat to give me she said, for
that very day she prepared . lunch tor
her daughter who went on = journey.
I did not dispute her, for hanging upon
the wall was her daughters Photograph
and in It recognized, = perfect Likeness
Of the girl that, but few hours before,
I ssw sitting on the lsp Of . tramp prin.
ter. Next evening, With Butte twenty
miles west Of me, I wss again hungry;
I tried to persuade farmers wife, who
had just alighted from . one horne vehi-
ole, th.t l was deserving young man.
She thought % ton thought I W. do
serving of . hosse-whipping. Did I
strike hef? No, bat jumped into her
wagon and drove away from her - last
- possible. It was . genuine American
plug. verify believe It to b the iden-
teal animal that Mark Twain made
immortal In his ''Roughing It." When
I startxd re kicked clear over the dash
board With the utmost Gang trotd. 1t
didn't worry him bit to know that BE-
hind him at an individual to
whom al the silver In the
Montana mountains would DO
- the veriest dress II the top Of his head
we're missing. When the notion took
him, and It seemed to be chronic, he
poised hjmselfon his front feet and COM
menced beating Yankee Doodle on that
devoted dashboard, which unhappily
Wa not erected expressly for such aeon
tiDgsney. It became sorely demor.l
lied, . wreck % to speak. Before I 40
complished ten miles I Rad to abandon
the wa9on; bat this did not placats bis
turbulent soul, for soen had toseques-
tsste his harness. This done, I mounted
him. Imay pause here to remark tfat
I got OF with more ease than I gnt o.
bat did not come down % gracefully OF
softly - went Up. But THU h . pri-
vass matter between mo and my equine
enemy. Ispurned him from me.-lelt
him = llnd biz WY back to The farm
place-and struck out again On fnot for
Colombo. When in juxtaposition 70 the
city a Boulder, tho sheriff and his dep
uty sncoantssed me, and kindly ssesrt-
Cd mo - their hotel, ct which place I am
at the present writing.
Think Montana h further west than
Old Hossoe intended his tramp proteges
to 50, q least I hope for the sake Of his
memory that such b tho case.
TSsmping he's IT. pleasures and dis-
pleasures, but In my opinion pound q
misery b thrown In With every ounce Of
enjoyment. The mountains and scenery
arc magnificent, though I must confess
IN Illinois eoFhfield suits mo much bet-
ter.
And nov ny Oo0tlo Editor
ltNollS gives - pain,
10 Vii yoa eoa nsvog come
Daek b yoar town again;
hat dhouA yoa Win % &sEeeponi
And ~ ~ postage saaes,
Pkaso have yossosesses allaAarsDed
IN ease q 9hg1l Yaaes.
PHILIP ''THB TRAMP"
LEGAL BLANKS.