Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19
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tns indian Fashion of Sleeping.
rypecIaI Correspondence1
Ia, 6-I was little more than a
BS.l,, when | stroHei of into the wilds
b! y S,srra NevadaS All alone on pros
q '1' .,rslition after silver. A rancher
F''-e horse and agreed to take his pay
S'' ~ ~ whatever mines l might find
% so from one and another to Scrape
! L., saddle and bride ON similar terms.
W., o., cave ME a dog, bought q cheap
S'D' with a few dollars worth of provi-
,'., Tr,Is out Of the settled portion Of the
>..- .,r INTO tue mountains
N--' f,r stroll the first evening Of this
- life. leaving my camp in charge OF the
~. found ON returning that he had
.1pper OF my whole stock Of meat,
- -. syperted would last three days.
- that / hung my meat out or Puts
-, ana had always to hang it pretty
Co, The next morning had nothing
t-.,lg,,t but a robin. That robin i
.,t,r ssr until | shot it-and it was a full
ton. I could get sufficiently near the
.-!toL dose.
az business, / thought, this killing
-. sri,D creatures 10 skin and eat Is not
..,i, ones fellow creaturel 1t has intelh-
-. ~ build its nest, love for its mate, love
~. voans, and its song is cheerful morn
Idly in those Solitudes. Certainly it is
sr,v creature
non this trip, while camped on one Of
a. .s-a brush plains OF Nevada, passed
Id -.,.,Ss,i for three days g sage hen sitting
-.fs-n s,t. was short Of provisions. For
go, DAYS resisted the temptation TO shoot
-. br, nv needs were pressing, and on the
..,i Gav did shoot her and have accused
f5f murder ever since. had no tent
- .b,C california plains for seven months of
Oh. war | Ueedcd none, since no rain falls
.,s-sior that period On the mountains there
-. ,r,a,,snal showers. IL one lasted toe
.-- cpuI generally contriye a shelter OF
.-s lark. always plentiful and to be stripped
-,r the tres IN large sheets Camping out
.,r art bv itself. and was obliged to Learn
By mysslt learned never to pass an in
---s.gt fgr camping-furnishing wood anc
.,,-r ami grass for my horse-after O'Clock
;.e afternoon, for the chances would al
s.r, ls AGAINST my finding such another be
-. lark. il found any at all. l learned
a. Ias carefully about before choosing q
-rp.ng SPOT. to see that no dead trees were
ar enough to reach me should they fall
Rs,ause in these forests, never touched by
nan. deal snd rotten trees are numerous
rs-y large ones, too, and they are as liable tc
one down in a calm as ina storm Often
I on sill nights in those sOlitudeS hear tn,
ras5 Of their fall miles away. More thai
ar. after making my arrangements for the
-..a,. have found rotten pine over 100 feet
height close 70 ma and inclined in my di
ss..gn, and therefore / would move of that
;0lli Once, after my fire was made ana
~ 81 per nearly ready, on looking up | saw
1g.ried by a mere splinter in the branches
sar nc dead limb weighing hundreds o!
.-lI< Il was in another shape a repetition
,-e sword Of DamOcles moved OF thai
patton.
Twice during my absence my .camP-o'
-trr al, that coald burn in my camp-camt
s-r dong 50 through the dry grass catching
pm ms fire After few such alarms and
" bl.'; home Of a mile or so on seeing tn,
.-er, learned 70 cover up the fire well OF
1--we the dry grass a foot or two from it.
-aS the summer the grass and weeds il
-tornia wither and dry to the roots, and 81
- 6rs very easily.
Seps my tea, coffee and sugar in canva,
as holding about pound each Pepper
| b.. SIT IN a smaller baS. had bread ba@
lam,lt Las Butter ! carried in a tin
r mc...rI by another bag. On packing
..l up tu-so Lags in my blankets, whie.
-ra strapped behind the saddle. On unpack
. Il.s,sd all the bags in a row together
.a. ground That row was my harder AM
..aea, and could put my hand on any
E. as soon as it was wanted
5.,.e l 50 arranged my groceries in thb
7.enl ul bags, took them from the blankets
.ugy wyr. needed. laid them anywhere in
al. dry grass about mo when had done
~ o. tagm AM then spent a good deal Of time
strength hunting them up. Just so with
-ie, spoon or fork l found it paid in many
slg, % argang, all my kitchen furniture and
-o,rlys IN regular order on the ground as
s1a as my Blankets were unStrapped.
Aycgykius apparatus consisted Of fry
- lan amt coffee pot. Bread bakes very
.yy IN d frying pan. when propped W
aa..y upright before the fire or better still
-ag 0t glowing Goals. Imagine the predica.
-sa, found myself once in on discovering
III .-i, my matches at the last camp, then
,- ul.ss Of and no grocery or settler within
'-a;y miles There was nothing to do but
turn and hunt them up. Without matches
-s.H, te.l, without fire, and being without
meant Icing without cooked food. Acct.
Us ike tueSc beat at last something like
..sr INTO my head, and much l needed it
4 Vas the custom in those days for people
AIRY revolver SlunS at the hip. In the
,'>t Tor a revolver | substituted a Ratchet.
e.. "ssgh; in iron was about the same, but
-. aa.cart wGs far more useful for choppinS
'.s"ooi AMI many other purposes. l found
avery good plan to keep secure from the
.N'0IIiy Of wet or dampneSS a little bag
&C.. oi dry shayings or whittlings, for often
e. '~e forest it is difficult TO get any perfectly
~ 'lr' FOR kiudGng. They laughed at me
I'd certain cabin where was staying on see
- le Preparing my bag of kindling wood,
Az .a.Sd mo a granny Some two years
'...'"aTi l met one Of these men
..l a.. bis toes frozen OF, and among other
.-.'' be said: Il wouldn't have frozen my
..'' bad l taken pains, as you did, to have q
so' dry shayiugs about me-
-'at wish, however, to convey the i'm
..''oa that was so very wise then.
,-'aI l was harum scarum, careless,
N'-SS' mProyident boy, and nothing but
VA providence carried me through.
TAI about me some Of the grandest and
~ BEAUTIFUL scenery in the world, and OF
= caanse almost daily. One morning /
~ breakfast almost on some mountain
'--. overlooking forty or fifty miles Of