The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-02

popular nameSake OF the hatt, LeDulon
o. somerindyck, Esq. lllustrious
trinity of merchant, mayor and post
master-and there enliven the passing
hours with Incidents of homely pathos
and thrilling adventures, from their
own experiences on the western from
tier. To be sire some of these Incl
dents were entirely fresh to the nara
TORS, as we'll as to the audience. But
in such cases the freshness belonged
entirely to the story-teller and his tale,
and not to his audience; and somehow
spurious yarns were seldom repeated
When each man was settled into his
familiar pace on box, barrel or chair,
and the magnetic circle of fellowship
became fully established, each passing
circumstance would revive the memory
of some experience, and the current of
recollections would remain unbrokcn
until the small hours of the night
On one occasion of this kind, as a
few of the earliest arrivals had
dropped in," q faint squeal was heard
from remote corner of the room, and
the ''store cat emerged from behind
apile of boxes, with big mouse in
her mouth. She proudly marched be-
fore the spectators, to. display her
prize After rubbing her sides affec-
tionately against such boot-legs as
were within her reach, and receiving
many admiring strokes, she deposited
her victim on the floor and began to
tease and torment it by allowing it to
almost escape-only to be drawn back
again by a sharp and crafty paw.
After watching these maneuvers for a
time an old guide broke the silence. He
was universally known by the express
sive title of Lonesome Lively" in cell
ebration of his abnormal desire to es-
cape from everybody's society, and of
his phenomenal deliberation.
How'd we like to hev grizzly play
with we like that?' said he, watching
q the cat Silence is commonly supposed
- to give consent: but as no one acqui-
esced in the proposition. he seemed to
take it for granted that he was called
upon to defend and prove that the cir
cumstances suggested were not desir-
able.
"A lot of us fellers had worked the
Solitaire pocket till there wasn't a
solitary speck O dust in her pocket,
nuther in ours,-an' we perceeded to
pack our duds and make fur t'other
side NV Jordan creek The rest on 'em
were soured on the kentry and swore
ez they wouldn't eat nor drink till
they'd crossed over onto t'other side.
IF they'd a made the last part O thet
resolooshun sometime afore, an stuck
to ct, they'd punished mighty
sight less O poor whisky on this side o
Jordan, / recallect.
$50 it war late that night when we
snatched bit o. supper an stretched
out ez tired adozen legs as ever made
spokes around camp fire.
I'D made up my mind that the back
end o the next day would find us will
more to eat er fewer to eat it. 'Kord
ingly, next mornin', when we struck {
big patch of chaparral, / switched of
from the party an told 'em ter keel
straight ahead fer clump big pines
totherside TIL chaparral; an if didn'
jlne 'em in five hours they might hacl
track an hunt me up. Meantime wa
about to try my luck fer game. The,
agreed. an we parted.
THE chaparral were mighty SOLE
growth, sort o tunneled through her
an thar by the trails. l pegged righ
along fer an hour or more, all the tim
kecpin my eyes an ears open fer sign
game. The trail I was follerir