Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-02

NO. 81.
JOHN DAY CREEK.
EDITOR FREE PRESS:

EDrToR FREE PRESS:
I Well. my washin's all dun, and irun.
Y in tn, 80 | spose id bettur kepe my
promis and tel yu 'uns bout the rest ~
trip. Ware, did leve Off oh, kno
bout them hills and canyuns, well at
last We cum to little slate kirk. one nv
the mail porthun nv our party struck up
the kirk to find campin plase and Nv
corse we'uns follered i'm. We campt
about 2 miles up from the rode, on .
butiful medder, WHARF the horses had
good fede, and there we pitched our
tent, like the tetrarks NV old times. It
wuz super time and SO one NV the men
made fire and sum NV the wimmin
cooked sum fride appils and made sum
bred thet we brung with us and sum
pickles tibet the Attel girls made, aud
sum kake and we he'd quite good sup.
didn't get to camp in time to ketch emmy
fish; after super we set by the fire and
talked sum and LATED sum and sung cum
too. The wimmin folks he'd tent to
sleep in and the men made their bed
under shed thet he'd a roof. but nuth.
in much else. to speek Nv. No sides, no.
frunt, and the back wuz mostly roof.
The wether wuz powerful cold, after tho
sun wuz sot. | never did see the weth.
er change so suddint. in the middel Nv
the day, it wuz too hot to be cumforta.
BEL and ez soon ex the sun he'd sot .
chill woud strike inter yer very marrer,
and in the mornin. like ez not we'uns
nd find the water friz in the wash pan.
Well, We he'd good time eny way. We
hunted and fiishd and red books, and
visited around the minin camp and he'd
good time gineraly. ! don't meen tn
ga thet we'uns al hunted er all fished,
but sum did one thing and sum did toth-
er. Norman and jon wus al the wunx
tibet hunted. Norman kid sum grouse
and jon, he shot at Gro, but don't
think he was calkilatin tn supply the to.
Bile, But ye see. he kinder got mad. he
WIZ sittin talkin to wun NV Nv the VIM
mere by and begun tn talk too, not noisy
like crosse du, but pnrswadin like ez IL he
wuz coaxing that woman tn not listen
to no soft solder, takin fur granted 70
see! thet man and woman cant sit BY
thersevs without talkin tibet kind nv
mush. Wei, jon he jest got mad end
pikt up norman's gun thet lade there
and fired, and the Gro fowd wa latin.
fished sum but not so successful ez sum
foxes du, fished two er thre daz end
finally got fish bout 3 inchez long, end
the lest Nv the time rested on the hon.
er Nv thet wun fish. the rest NV the
wimmen he'd better luck, al but my lit
tel dauter, she kinder takes after me in
most things end fshuns wun Nv EN-.
wun da we'uns rode inter florence, end
wuz cordially received, mr.. clark Civ US o
nice dinner and offerd tn give us dance
II weuns nd stay til evenin. we calld
tn several camps end wuz kindly treted
by all. befor we started bak tn our
camp. wilyum went fshin end caut .
ham, so our super wuz pervided fur, ex
fur ez game wuz consumed. the next
da we went home, We had jest about the
same kind NV time goin back ex We
he'd goin up. the bel horse follered the
trane most Nv the time insted NV leadin
end if he dip git ahead, he'd lay down
end rest quite often. we WIZ glad to cit
home altho We had a offul nice time.
things went es smooth es tha gineraly
du, wun big feller did git mad ct nor
man end throwd him down end kickd
him but didn't hurt i'm ez much ez he
ment tn. norman sedthe'd sell i'm, il
he he'd nuther horse to ride, wun da |
see two hachets a chasin dog, but the
dog got ava think the reeson the bach.
cts didn't ketch him wus becaus tha wux
80 mad thet tha didn't kno WHARF tha
wus goin, er wat tina wus doin. but the
Dog did, he knowd he wuz to git ava
frum them hachets end he did, don't chu
kno, thet foxes is jest like them hachets?
tha cant du neer so mutch NV what thS
calkilate on wen thaze exited. pikt up
the hachets end had a noshun to fling
em up in the air, jest tu see if tha Guild
fiji bak the wa tina cum, but tina looked
80 kind NV trecheras thet didn't like to
trust EN- end so thru EN- inter sum
brush to kool oph. in Haste.
Yurz trule,
n Poov.