The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-19
THE FIRST LEDDY."
Mrs. Nora Flynn In . Rocky Mountain
Mining Camp.
rrom the YOuth's Companiou.

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Mrs. Nora Flynn In . Rocky Mountain
mining Camp.
From the Youths Companion.
Many queer characters drift into the new
and suddenly famous mining camps of the
west. Nearly all Of them = drawn
thither by the hope Of gain, but now and
then one meet some ~foriorn, nomadic
creature wandering around a. though
driven from place TO place by q spirit Of
unrest. Such a seemingly ~purposeless
wanderer was Nora Flynn, an elderly Irish
woman, who some years q suddenly APP
peared in q Rocky Mountain mining
camp, which was just then coming into
notoriety.
Mrs. Flynn was the first who
followed, when the camp had grown to be
a populous city, she did not allow her
neighbors to forget the fact.
II was tho first Teddy that yer shtruck
this town." she was fond OF saying. 'In-
dadc, anil was that! There's q plinty
feet that liver walked these strates"
Mrs. Flynn claimed for herself the
further distinction OF having walked SO
miles TO reach the camp In which she held
this queenly position.
ard not been here II I hadn't" she said
frankly, .'for I'd not q clint TO me name TO
pay me fare wild, n II was walk or shtay
Mrs. Flynn seemed TO be n woman with
out q past or future, since no one ever
heard her speak about b n or the
other.
Being a good cook she found immediate
employment ut N OF the large mines as
mistress Of a boarding house where there
there were IS men. He good humor was
as unfailing as her industry, and she
always had n bright smile and q cherry
word for the ''byes" when, tired and hun
CRY, they came home from the mines to
the neat and well-kept cabin.
Her jokes and ringing, laughs were SO
constant that there did not seem to be
much depth to her character, but time
proved that she had a warm and true
heart that could be relied upon In time OF
need.
The winter wal severe and pneumonia
ragged like a courg In the camp, its at.
tacks always being severe and often fatal
at such high attitudes.
"Haye a care now. byes, or you'll be
comm down wild IT," Mrs. Flynn often
said to the men at the cabin. "Don't &c
to carousin' round noights an w'akenin'
yerselves wild strong drink and loss OF
shape. Moind thatM
that" and more than one OF them was
brought home with the dreaded disease.
Then Mrs. Flynn's force Of character
displayed itself. Night and day she
watched by the sick, one of the most pa
tient and tender and faithful of nurses.
Some Of her patients died, but many OF
them were saved by Mrs. Flynn's wise
and faithful care.
brace up, me bye, an I'll pull We troC
all roight." she would say, cheerily: and
so she did.
The last one of them was able to wall
around feebly in the sunshine, when Mrs
Flynn dropped YEARLY into a chair one
evening, and said, in her usual banterinl
tone:
"Well, byes, ye're not goin' to have all
the sport yerselves, It's me own turn
now to rave n round wild the pneumonia
an We can have the enj'yment of takin
care o. me. How'll ye loike that, ye ras
Gals? o
Four days later a little procession OF
roughly dressed men, not ashamed of the
tears in their eyes and OH their rough
| cheeks, walked slowly out of the cabir
and down the rocky mountain-side. Foul
| of them carried a cheap, stained pine cot
I'm, the best the place afforded. IN which
was all that was mortal of the first ledd,
in the camp"