The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-04

ton at san Francisco my new owner went
20 a very brilliantly lighted establishment.
where / passed a most extraordinary
thirty-six hours.
Il cannot tell all the things that hap
pencd TO me while ] was in the gambling
house. There were many men there, and
most OF them were playing. They were
drinking all kinds OF beverages, too. and
mat IS the reason why / can recall no
more Of my experiences there. 1 have al
ways been easily affected by liquor. and
gave way very early during my stay in
the gambling house. when a glass OF wine
was overset upon me. I do remember
however. that l passed rapidly from hand
70 hand for a long time and that finally
1 was taken away 10 a bank by the boss
gambler Next day the bank paid me out
10 a hotel whose clerk. by what have
always considered a strange coincidence.
gave me in change to the identical orange
buyer who had started out from New York
with me In his pocket a few days before.
Il was very glad to be in his posses
sion again, for. though it might be posi-
bic for gambler 70 fool him. he was
respectable chap and not likely TO get
me drunk again. and. besides. I might
possibly have an opportunity once more
to see the pretty girls face In his watch
case In this ! was disappointed, nor ala
l have any experiences worth mention
ing while ! was with the orange buyer
that time. From san Francisco we Went
directly to the orange region farther
south. where he was taken by the owner
of a grove to inspect the growing crop.
The orange buyer carried his knife in the
same pocket with his coins, and all the
way from San Francisco to the grove
the rough edge of the knife handle was
eating a hole in the pocket. While the
buyer was walking among the trees fell
60 the ground. There ] lay a whole day
and night, when I was found by a wealth
er-beaten chap dressed in blouse and over
alls.
This man must have been an easterner.
for, when he saw me, he said, with
! queer chuekle; Wen. 1 swan! Ef there
amt a silver dollar. That's a bigger
lead than I've struck by accident for
good many years. I'll just keep that dol
lar till / go home tonight, and I'll give
| It TO the old woman, and to-morrer she
| can buy the bunnit she has been wanting
so long.
80 the man took me home. and the
next day, with Joy In her heart. his hard
worked wife took me TO the millinery shop
and bought the bonnet. When her hus-
band went away to his work that morning
she kissed him, while a pretty flush over
| spread her worn features, and she said {:
You always was good to me- Bill
HE didn't answer In words, but he
flushed little, too, and kissed her In re-
/
! ing me In her hand OF course, l expected
after that to remain for some time on
| the Pacific coast; but / did not. For sew
eral days l was kept quite busy. The
milliner paid me out for groceries, the
| grocer paid me for something else. and.
| after passing through a score of hands, l
was placed in bank and sent out to a
hotel. From the hotel fell into the hands
| Of a dude, who was going east. BY him
| was paid out to the dining car people
| again, and, strange as It may seem,
| travelled back and forth along the rail-
roads OF the land most of the time for sew
| eral months. My tOurneyings must have
| aggregated many thousand miles. one day
| late in June. while on an eastbound train,
| to my great joy. ! was again paid 70
| the orange buyer, and. strangely
enough l think, he was again eating
| breakfast with the pretty girl, and from
their talk, / learned that they had been
married since ! saw them last ana were
| on their wedding tour, with New York
| for their objective point. Greatly 20 my
| delight, l remained with the buyer for
some time. and. owing to his habit Of jug
Cling coin while he was talking, saw his
pretty bride many times. But now j sup
pose / have lost him for good. To-day al
! dinner while waiting for the dessert, he
took me out and spun me on the table
There were oranges upon the fruit dish
and overheard one OF them saying to the
other in the orange tongue, which
learned while on the coast, that they
knew the buyer as well as did, for they
had seen him once before when they were
hanging on the trees and not yet ripe In
the orange grove whose yield he had last
winter gone west to purchase He put
me I'm his pocket directly after l had
heard the orange talk, and to-day he used
me to help pay his bill at this hotel
Now" said the dollar to the golden
eagle" have told you all my life; let us
go to sleep"