Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-05-02

gleam Of cunning No claim" he said.
"Wrrc after rattlesnakt oil Hunting snakes
in the rhapparnl There's one now-"n tn"
head II Yer uut off while count ten, I'll
put hail through yr. On,. t"n three
oh" and h" ~hri"k,rl a. if with pain.
iIIllv,tr -, .kr:
He NUT l-.krpt quiet Its the-io,
trr'> ORDER, The doctor -say~-hiS -SHry
hrulum- Is something Or other.
"Qu.-.r nI>iu'>r -qu,7'r burln,>>' WA, ST
tor remark "a, we left the hou,' together
I think h,'> had >hro in s,rnIe with ~"G,r
lr,lv
Br,-ner returned felt that | could nov
shift "a part Of the business 10 other shnul
drI~
He heard INV story. At its conclusion
h, settled hack and LAUGHED
"Erguar dim" novel isn't it" said h."
''Writr it, print il. sell It Well Young man
you're improving rapidly. | Cnngratulnt.
YOU couldn't have wished YOU any thing
better than the experience you've gonr
through You needed it. You're the kind
that must hc put in very hot water 10 draw
ANYTHING uut Of YOU"
But won't this put all Bull Bar on the
scent Of the Bank" Z" asked
First, lets compound some whisky witH
sugar lemons and nutmeg. Before we talk
business lrt'~ fix things ~ aS to make bust
ness a pleasure, not by pouring the stuff
down raw as the fools do at the store vonder,
hut dress up the fluid deCently and taste
fully before We put 1t down There would
tr far less Grunkar,lS if every man was com
pelel by law to dress up and trim up his
drinks i'll this way before he swallowed
them He continued As he sippel his punch:
Make yourself easy, Holder, about the
claim. You havr~iNed that all right, or the
Fatts have for YOU Pratt won't go up
there for while now that his wits are
knocked out 0f his head. which for our pur-
pose is better far than knocking them out Of
his lDlv BecauS.' I'm fool enough to b.
lieve that if his wits were out of his body
they'd he in much better shape to
come back and reveal our secret
than as they now are chained to
cracked skull. and therefore in bad work
ing order, Hillyear, from what you say, is,
judge only an appeudage Of Pratts, and
not able 10 10 anything without him At all
events, III find out soon. As for the Bank
think Nv" got the cream ont of it already.
lt's only fe,~er to some bigger vein in the
mountain That can lay for awhile. I've
got four or five caches of quartz up there
JnhI ] maven I SHOWN YOU We II get IL Hi
down this week and hush up things for the
present There's, think your fair share Of
divvv. 50 far aS we've gone" and he put in
my hands a mint certificate of depuSit for
$1,000 IF the rock that's mnei out gives
down a. think it will you'll have a much
more coming to YOU Are you satisfieiy'
Satisfied. Less than year from home and
the po,SSseSsor of what in Eastport WAS deemed
L., -,
wanted to pour forth my thanks"
said: II wish could fitly express my
feeling and gratitude to YOU"
I'm glad you can't" said Broener, inter
rupting me. Its n good thing for you
that you can't | hate effusiveness You
may in part thank your reticence and un-
for what you call your
luck | don't want any gushers about me
Besides. you've earned what You got-every
cent of it Fate put YOU and HE together
and with tha: put it in your way. There's
no thanks nor gratitude in the matter. |
hate people always overwhelmed with graft
tude They're the sort who. if ever they
do You what's called favor. never forget it,
and in effect want To be paid for it forever
afterw ard Let's change the subject There's
a travelling theatre company at Chinese
=
You need change from the CHASTITY buz-
zard spying anl holy hunting business Get
Rankin's horse. II! take mine, and we'll
gulIop over there"
On applying Mr. Rankin said he would
gladly hire me his horse The animal. he
added. was vicious, SHE'D at his own shadow.
'buckei' frequently ami had been the death
of two men. As We were leaving he called
~, RVs. ss'Tl,A
end OF the camp and IS lightenin ON an in
quest when soler. The undertaken lives at
the other You'd better take the cloth for
the young mans shroud along with you.
They know that horse up there and always
put All extra ten cents a yard on white linen
when they See HIM comm"
Ii seemed another world in that land when
riding by night The suns hot glare was
gone The air after nghtfall was always
cool and refreshing for it came off the snow
banks on the Sierra SUBMITS Our horses
were full of life and appare.tly as glad TO
make the trip rs ourselves. The life of the
horse seems To add life to the rider, provid- f.
ing he is "horseman" Distance at night
seems unnoticeL 1t is more like a dream.
One travels forward without 50 much of that /
mental strainiug to reach one point after
tuted hurrying minds in the day time
So galloprd Brornrr and |, regarding those .
myriad shining wonders of all ages-the !
stars.
Lots Of 'em. aren't there" said he
The stars Yes"
Small potatoes we are under them.
than ants i'll comparison, and moving /
about on this planet for these shining atoms .
we call gold. | wonder, now, of what i'm .
Tortance poor Pratt, if he had his SENSES,
would consider that biggest star alongside Of .
a pan full of dust. Pratt would trade Venus
for quartz claim
Stars, speculation, immortality. etc, ," said .
Brcener, as We rode on. The three seem to |
20 together, or, at all events, stars always
start one on those topics | wonder what We
arc, anyway-who We are, where We came
from, and all the rest. am certain amount
of life and Intelligence in body Body's
only garment, IA wrap, a machine Hit
a part Of the body hard enough, just one
blow. and in one second hfe's ali gone, and
with it the eumptlun' I've been storing up
for years. Hit it not quite as hard, like the
crack poor Pratt gave himself, and the intel
hgence stays but goes To fiinders-al hurly-
burly. Problem: when you bore hole with
a bullet through mans head, does all his
intellect 60 uut through that hole, and, if so,
where does it 60 to' and might there not be
some way of putting bucket or basin under
such mans head when he's diving, and
his intelligence, his quien ssibs
for ones own use, just they tap
trees for maple sugar! Well, one things
we're here, anyway, and | put
it up that the best plan Is to get all the
fun We can out of it-h.dy, soul, mind. spirit,
and any other little addition the theologians,
philosophers and metaphysicians can tack on
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