The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-02-24

nat sometimes, with q Tn.rn.ra.boon,
that 1t sounded like q 'Brayop af,or a
woll.placed blow. This madc tho men
all the muddor. How It ended | don't
know, for went away 10 wind up tho
man down the Ehntt, who had boon for.
gotten all this time. lilo came I'M pro.
fame aud furious, and insulted inc. /
dismisscd him OH tho spot and then
thCrO was another row, and somehow
the angry spirit spread, and bob aud |
ut last found ourselves looking on ut q
general mGlCG, Bob, with one cyo only,
as u 'phid' OF mis.dircctGd clay had tom.
porarily shut mp the other!
an tho middle OF all this rumpus,
who should step out OF tho bush but
the inspector, and just as he did so
chunk OF quartz Knocked his hat of.
llG insis ted on tho arrest OF tho offend.
or, but the order was too big to execute,
aud the end oil 1t was TINT no and his
posse went of back to town and ruport.
od u state OF riot ut tho Gilt Edge. Scxt
day Bob and |, tho captains of the
shift, with half dozen other mon,
were on our way to explain to n mngis-
trate and pay tho penalty Tor nm assault
on tho authorities When it wa4 all
over and We had got back, lenying three
OF our number behind Us in custody for
contempt Of court, We found tho place
half deserted, aud tho remaining mon
lying about idle, playing cards and
Quarroling, while tho parrots
overhead criod .Ta.ra.ra.boom in re-
spOnSG TO every oath. When they
hoard OF tho men in Jail, they
went oil ina body to get their chums
out, and Bob and found ourselves alouu
in thocamp with thGcOnfoundcd parrots
After the excitement oil tho previous
day our nerves were, perhaps, Il bit
shal;y, but anyhow We thought Ta.ra.ra
worsO than ever. We stuffed our ears
full OF wadding, but the wro,chod re-.
iraln was running IN our heads, 80 that
We found ourselves humming it ut every
turn, and when We took out tho waddins
to speak to each other, the parrots were
still Nt their Tu-rn.ra-booml But wo
got the camp into order, and working
like nicgers all the time, waited for
thr0o days Tor tho men TO return, aud
then we went into town after them.
None OF them would come back and face
Ta-rara-boom. So We had to get an
other SHIFT, and by aud by we started
again.
But almost tho same things hap
pened, though worac. For tho men
aftor two days OF it were SO Infatuated
BY the parrots that they would not
work. They loaied about the bush all
day with revolvers and Jumps OF stone,
\ passionate longing for the blood OF
parrots possessed them. So ovcrwhclm-
ing was the mastery OF this ferocious
thirst Tor gore that, not content with
perpetual ilstcniis, they proceeded to
duelin9 with revolvcrs, and from this
10 busting up tho machinery OF the
mine, setting fire to our hut, and, most
astonishing OF all, All old SCotchman
WAS actually seen in his ungoycrnable
fury to throw Il bottle three parts full OF
whisky At parrot 1t was now our
turn to seek assistance from the
authorities But SO cXasperated WAS
the Observation-Disclosures Ta-ra-ra-boom
had by this time spread from our camp
over the whole OF the district-that
when it was known wo were in town
| to prosecute our men at the mine. popu-
.rr feeling ran SO high against us that
the police advised us to make 4 bolt for
it. Which we did, and ut once. Nor
did we dare to 70 back. We should
probably have been lynched ii VIC had.
So there was nothing ior it but sell tho
mine with the plan: on it rs a going
concern. 1t was put without reserve,
and amid cheers and cries oil Ta.ra.ra.
boom-de-ay. the Gilt Edge was knocked
down 10 our own BRAKEMAN for Goo!
So we were thrown on the world again,
and from that day to this | have never
Glanced on 4 bit OF luck again.
LOB? Oh, Bob is in the Yarra Yarrn
Asylum down in Melbourne. IIo went
clean of his chump, poor chap. lie
was right good follow, was Bob but
be made an awful mistake in teaching
that parrot "Ta-ra-ra-boom. decay"