Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-08

down, picked horse, anything anything +
under the sun. And yet the wretched
old fraud was not In the least disturbed
by the awkward manner in which his
Ubiquitous transactions had reboundeda
situation and state of affairs under
which had already begun e feel lone,
some and tired. / was whipped and /
hacked from the start. Bnt not so with
old Potsdam. He even contrived to seem I
fattered by their attentions. Through |
his attitude he seemed to say: Il am /
waiting for you to finish, then will pro- |
coed to show you that you are suffering |
from an acute attack Of bone In the head. |
| understand your objections, and find |
them nil. You are scurvy lot, and the |
whole Of you couldn't bait q bird trap. l
will try and give you lesson in CON-
MERGE before | finish, when once get q
chance to speak.
white man no hab skin like So" he
began, in all solemnity, while he pointed
finger at me.
Now what this had to do with it, and
why he should drive the question with
such magnificent sweep. or indeed at all,
! could not sec. He appeared to me to be
getting muddy; moreover, J determined
that in the event | ever found myself
overstocked with mutton again, would
not establish floating branch house with
him at the head. Briefly, thought he
was cropping. Two minutes afterward !
saw that his very accent was methodical
craft. and acknowledged him supreme.
''Yas, he hab de skin" admitted the
spokesman of the malcontents; and his
wrath began to show signs of giving way
as he did SO. Evidently he too was wonder
ing where the Great Fetch, the old fool.
was going.
He no hab country long time gone from
dis?' asked Potsdam, slowly.
Vas, he country long time gone" was
conceded, somewhat anxiously.
HE no hab ship to ketch him country"
"Yas," with distinct anxiety this time.
ut no take ship six moon to ketch dat
country"
"Yas," meekly.
''Den why he poke no hab hawns, an
why he bullock no hab foot. like soY''
In other words, what do you know
about the far away home of the white
stranger and what do you know Of the
relation Of horns and hoofs as accidents
| of the white mans cattle in that distant
land? His skin, his habits, his achieve
| ments, and his native land are unlike
| your own. By what right, then, resting
within your own limited knowledge, do
you propose to restrict him to hornless
hog and to conventionality in bullock
feet2
This was enough. About went the
boats, and down the river seurried the
whole flock as fast as flashing paddles
could drive their clumsy crafts along,
leaving my unupsettable cid liar standing
squarely on his feet. But whether he had
convinced them that they did not know
bread fruit from gourds when it came to
question of foreign commerce. or
whether they abandoned him in despair
because they considered him such an I'M
speakable fool that it were folly to con-
test the matter with him, l have often
wondered.
/ No. | didn't give them back their oil,
for they ate my mutton first, and then
attempted to repudiate the transaction
afterward
So because expediency and gratitude
were both enlisted with the Ashantee,
accepted the monkey, tied him by the
neck to post of the veranda, and resumed
my seat and pipe This left the donor
nothing else to do than to walk off, and
a picture he made of it as he went. Black
oily and stately the leading features OF
his dress were sadly battered miners
hat and a tired looking pair of sailors
trousers, belted ON with leather strap
from which dangled bayonet scabbard
t that had evidently seen hard service NJ
at the English garrison at Sierra Leone
Nevertheless, notwithstanding this in
congruitv of accouterment, he had 9
stately seeming about him as he stalked
away.
But the monkey? As large as a cat
legs like a SPIDERS, tail like an ugly
wiggly strip of unrest, hair reddish ant
coarse, black, iniquitous face, eyes small
unsteady, and lit with sin; take these ant
take my monkey. There he sat, grinnine
and chattering in small, idle way, ant
looking like an illustration of crude unre
3 generation.'
/ fixed my eyes upon him. He returned
the stare. Plainly we were about to be
come acquainted Presently | got tiret
2 of sort of thing that was fast growing
to be a mutual gloat, and looked away
i In few minutes was DOING but yer,
shortly awoke, and opened my eyes il
l time to see that little yoke fellow of ras
I cality leave off tampering with the rolling
i hitch which | had used in knotting hi
a cord to the post, in order to substitute
the mild pretense of flea hunt for hi
! real purpose. OF course | immediatel,
q went to sleep again. That is to say,
yelled my eyes with lowered lids ant
o lashes, and surreptitlously watched for
i renewal of his attentions to that knot
: Presently he ventured furtive glance il
: my direction; then, as if satisfied witt
A the result, he threw off his disguise, an
a resumed his original occupation. Tw
a minutes more and he was free. | know
Y it has the appearance of coming
/ strong to say that he had gotten tn
9 mastery over rolling hitch, and | throy
I upon the facts of the case thu response
= bility for the statement. For certain
q is that by his own unhagging industr
!, he had jiggered out a enforcement G
a tongue and buckle, line and line, and wa
"a at liberty.
" But the first use to which he put hi
q enlarged estate was a mistake.
e Now lying close by in semi-torpid cor
}. dition was a nasty tempered butting ms
# chine, owned by our Scotch doctor. Thi
,. battering engine was an African ram tina
had black and white hair for coverin
ia instead of wool, and that was liable
IA run amuch at any moment. The docto
had aptly named his brute for a certai
~ illustrious Gaelic chicken thief, a Grahal
" whom history calls Donald Nan Ord. An
ia beautifully did the aheepassort with h
name, for he was veritable son of han
If mer. and though pet, was esteemed
n. hard y;ad. With a brow made on tt
la mold Of stock turnip, front of soil
10 bone aill a bad moral way about hin
If Donald ysas known to be a bit of a whangt
liz when lie once got a-rocking. Withol