The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-07-14

him wild all yer big, ugly faces over hin
at Oncet.
Dan stood high in authority, and a
his sharp words the men withdrew
respectful distance; but Old Kentucl
still knelt and chafed hand that SCENE,
frozen.
Mrs. Dan Lannigan was one of th,
few women in camp. She reigned owe
two cozy little rooms in the rear of th,
store. She knew that sometime I'M
usual was transporting and made hel
appearance. At sight of the bow sh,
gave q perfect Irish howl and dartec
toward the PROSTATE form.
"Have done wild yer n'ise.n cried
Dan, in shrill whisper as he held ND
warning finger, for the boys face wa,
growing whittier and he seemed gasp
ing for breath.
"Have yees the sinse yees was borr
wild, Dan LanniganP" cried Molly. II
yees have, man, yen carry that poo
lad into me room and git him betwant
the skates of me bed in a jiffy."
In five minutes the boy WAS sleeping
soundly between the warm estates. J
with Molly sitting by him, dolefully
shaking her head, and wiping her tear
dimmed eyes on a corner of a big calico
apron.
aye poor little white-faced SOUL
she said. softly, ''it's hard knocks We We
had in the wurruld, I'm thinking; an
it's sorry place ye've found now-oh,
sorry place indade that wish me an
Dan was well out iv. It's no fit ,lace
for a body to stay, not if gold an ilel
was to be picked up in the strates.
When Dan and Molly arose in TIL,
morning they found the boy hal
dressed sitting on the hearthstone o
the great fireplace, stretching bis bony
hands out over the blazing logs he haC
put ON the burning Goals.
'It's a mighty nice fire. he said
I'm warm clean through me
He held his hands so long over the
Goals, with such a look of satisfaction
in his odd old face that MOLLY said:
Dear heart; didn't they have any
fires where we came from?'
81 guess so," he replied, "but
didn't git to set by 'em muIh. 'T'wan
often anybody'd let kid like me into
rooms where the fire was.
Hear that, now cried Molly. "Tht
haythens they must a been! Where
did yees come from?"
From Missoury first. Nam died there
an pap tux me an come out west
We've been a-stayin' down below il
Wild Cat Camp. That's where pal
died last week. He caught cold tina
brung on pneumony, and it kilt i'm il
three days. Poor old pap. He though
much as anything that he'd strike i
whalin' big fore he died an he used tx
tell me how | was to have nice buds an
go back to school with a watch an chain
like any other gentleman. I've lait
awake O. nights, thinkm' O that time
an how some boys 1 know back in Mis-
soury d open their eyes when they SCI
me. Yes, sir! l thought an dremp 0
that time, but-but-pap died"
The boy still held his hands out owe
the fire, but his voice had trembled a
the last; and when Molly slyly ganceC
toward him, she saw great tears trem
bling on his long lashes, and noted how
his lips were quivering.
Poor bye" she whispered to Dan
"he'l not soon go cold and hungr
again, Dan Lannigan.'
''After pap died" resumed the boy
81 hadn no place in pertickler to stay
Times is purity hard down in Wild Ca
Camp; so hid myself in the stage boot
an come up here, cause l heerd the,
was likely to be boom here early in tn,
spring"
Sorry the boom old Fancy's likel,
to know" thought Molly, "I'm thinkin
it's had the only boom it'll ever have.
But she kept her thoughts to herself
and prepared good breakfast for tn,
boy, who said his name was Larrie.
Dan agreed with Molly that they'd b.
''worse nor haythens'' if they turne,
poor Larrie out into such a cold, cheer
less world as that around Camp Fancy
Although Dan was a ''store-keeper
his worldly wealth was limited, indeed
and it cost no small sum to feed anothe
mouth; but Molly declared with tear
in her eyes that i'll luck indeed woult
they see if they refused to befrient
that poor starin', big-eyed lad, wit
his besachin' voice an mannerly ways
SoLarrie staid in Camp Fancy through
all that long and terrible winter. Tn
prospects of the camp grew gloomie
and gloomier. The mythical .'boom'
did not become a reality. The mel
grew sad and desperate. They did no
assemble around the big stove in Dan
store. They did not like to talk of tn
dreary future that lay before them, an,
they could no longer assume their GA
and careless ways with sore and trouble,
hearts so heavy in their breasts. Hop
was dying out, and a great despair cam
on these poor souls. Some of them ha,
spent three and four of the best wear
OF their lives here. Some had investe,
the hard-earned savings of wears il
mines that now seemed mere holes il
the ground. They had worked ant
hoped, and some had prayed that tn
desolate hills around old Camp Fame
might yet give them fortune and respit
from their labors.
80 1t Is In mining-camps where me-
airs only prospectors, the hidden vein
OF siiye" are often so hard to find. Some
times Shey are within a foot of tn
laborer, and after months of toll. h
may go away and leave the treasur
hidden. The June days came again
but they brought no ''boomn to Cam
Fancy. Most of the men had gone. O
were soon going, from the camp. Thei
deserted cabins made the place NOR