The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-19
VHBBLBR'S Slide.

was seated in the smoking compartD
ment Of u Pullman car on the A., 7. & S,
F. railroad, entering Fort Madison, La.
My companion was o miner from the
Aspen district OF Colorado. His CONVEX.
sstton was rough and unique. His atIen-
ton was called to toboggsn slide near
ly completed, and he said:
whats the chute lor2"
81 explained the uses Of q toboggan
slide, and concluded with: "When un-
der motion the toboggan sometimes &C.
quires velocity Of mile minute"
His lip curled rather sarcss!iCally as
he replied:
"sho! q mile minute amt nuthin'l
Never heard tell on SQueaky Wheeler,
did We? Wall, there's a pilgrim what
can give any toboggan points. Ye see,
Squeaky war play actor wanst, but he
lost his vice, s0't It sounded like cross
atwe,n chickin VII the pip an' the
squeakin' o. Their leather springs on an
overlander, so't when he blew inter
camp one day he got nicknamed
'Squaaky' This yere war when ther
Pixies Peak excitement war at its height,
an we war camped at its fut, purity nigh
whar Manitou is now. We made up
party fur to prospect an sQueaky want
ed to Join Their gang, so he did.
ave put in ther biggest part O. one
day gittin' up Their peak about four mile.
an then we spent three days scrapin'
OF snow an poundin' rock. This yere
didn't seem TO suit Squeaky, fur on the
mornin' O. Their fourth day squsaky up
40 says as how it war too dad hinged
monotonous knoCkin' of chuncks O.
rock iur nothin' an ireezin' in Their bar.
gain, 30 he ups an quits, throws up ther
sponge, JUS ike a tenderioot. 'Twan't
no fool Job climbia' up thar, an 1t want
no fool job climbin' down, Duther, cos
the snow was nigh on four feet deep,
with thick crust on, slippery es a Con-
gressman's word o honor.
"But a bright idee struck Squeaky.
'Twan't very often bright idee struck
him, but this er one war a corker. I'm
4oin' ter slide down in my perspectin'
pan, says squeaky, an 1t looked feasible
uii, cos thar war ridge nigh about
four mile long an a daDged site sleeper
han that ere toboggan slide. We tole
'queaky tibet it war dangerous, but he
allowed be knew what he war doin' 30
down he sots in ther pan, an Sugar Foot
Williams gin him jolt to start him an
away he went.
II reckon Squeaky cud o got along
without ther jolt, cos 'tEan't no time
fore he want nuthin' but q black
5peck, gittin' outer sight quickern q
man when q bill collector is Rrler him."
ut turned out feasible NUT, JUS as
Squeaky said 'twould, but ther DANCED
TOOL never allowed fur Their friction
4tween ther pan an Their hard crust.
he hadn't gone fur when he made up
his mind he'd got huff, but he cudn'tgit
Fl, an so he hung on like death ter q
lead niger, an then he began ter feel
kinder warm, es tho he'd backed too
;Ius ter ther stove, an next thing he
knowed he smelt somGthin' burn
in, smelt like wooden cloth, an
aext thing be knowed ther pan wer red
not an suthin' else than wooden burnin'.
De war jus goin' ter throw hisselt offan'
chance 1t when ther pan struck bottom
an stump at the same time and upend.
ID Squesky nigh about fifty feet inter u
NOW bank, which war gratifyin' ter say
her least, es he said hisself afterwards,
It cooled him off remarkably suddint.
But that ere wsrn't ther bsst O. Their joke
N squeaky, cos he, bein' bashful Cuss,
allowed he wouldn't go inter town till
,rter nightiall, cos ye see he didn't have
,nly one pair o. trousers with him.
"Bum McClintock held his watch on
|queaky, an I'm sinner ef he didn't
make that ere four mile in jus two min
utes au' five seconds, an / eau prove IL,
fur Bill Jones, the Teller that lent him a
pair O. trousers, an Doc Button, who
sold him bottle o. linernent, air both
alive an in Denver now, an old Mrs.
Pagan, who run ther boardtn' house ct
ther camp an put up er shelf fur sqaeaky
Ter eat of on, is out in Aspin now, an
she'll sweater it, too"
1 have since learned that squeaky
Wheeler's slide ia one OF the unwritten,
true episodes OF Pixies Peak history.
+. W. KINyR.