The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-05-06

stop till she ketchcd the wagon. So
jest natierly lowed I'd give Lcr a song
an dance, hcyin pretty smart day
ahead o. me an waitin 10 git into camp
early. Consistently | tod the niger
who rode with me-not to look back
"When we stated. ~ co'se the fust
ten mile on so was up hill mostly, AN /
couldn't travel extra fast, SO it was
bout ? when we bit the summit an
everything he'd went lovely. Then Wc
he'd little hand cat, an the descent
begun.
II didn't lose no time The mules
stepped out gay me a-poppin the buck
skin among 'em oncet an awhile Jest 10
keep 'em chee'ful AN in good humor, an
the hill-well. chain lighmin could 20
! down-with britchin. hedn't went a
great ways when / heerd fur off call
! like coyote got astray. Jumbo shifted
( kind 81 uneasylike on the seat an
squinted sideways at me, but / was
a-whistlin The Gal With the Travail
/ Train, and didn't sec nor hear nothin,
Of cO'se. Pretty soon the Niger he
couldn't set peaceful an Onconcerned no
longer AN stealod "a look benin. Then
he leaned forrard, tn his hans tween
his knees, AN chuckled 70 hissef paid
no manner Of notice Now he screws
round again in his seat, chuckles, an
twists "A little harder, squints at me
sideways again, AN says:
"'She's a-wavin, Jim.
SET still, you blamed black breast
ed sandpiper, says l. Let 'er wave
''He was tol'abul quiet fer shot
space, while you might cut pipe of
terbacker, mebbe. The calls sounded
pretty faintnow. Far back up the rocky
trail could ketch the clear, sharp ring
Of her boss hocfs-pit-e pit-e-
pat! pit-e-pat l-rclnindin me scmcthin
Of one If them gals from the east down
in Benton chassayin up AN down the
room i'll newfangled variance they
call the 'Rushin Polkay.
Junbo's head swung around again
on its pivot. He squi11ned IN twisted
an chuckled some more. The fun was
too fast fer his orDery, woolly scalp, IA
he bust out:
Dahl she waves, Jim. Now--nowl
she waves. Dah-dah she's a-wuvin
Nuw-now! she's a-wavin, i'm. Now!
she waves. Jim - jim -Jimi - she
waves. .Inn-she wayes!--she W Ncs.--
she waves!
Here he throwed cut his wings-un-
dulatinlike IN very takin an winds up
in loud Yah, yah, yah!-doublin
hisself UP an emitortin an rollin round
on the seat till | thought he'd drop ont
O the wagin. He was the most cXtrOpu-
lous coon / ever seo--that's right. |
tried to kick him under the seat, but
fact is. was a-laughin at him till l
was nigh non campus Memphis myself
90 'Pit-e-patl Pit-e-pat Pit-e-patv
come from far back in the distance.
"Now / commenced 10 pail in my
mules We were gittin pretty well
down the slope an a few mile more
would fetch US to the camp ground Il
he'd changed The Gal With the Travail
Train fer The Gal | Left Benin Ne ,
II was still middlin early in the after
noon an mighty hot. After awhile l got
my team down to walk an before long
heerd the boss hoofs comm closter.
Il turned around an watched her Us
she come up. Sayl I've eat canned
Holsters an heerd talk Of spanked babies
but you oughter seen that womans
face! y ~ Whoosh! To stat a fire fer
the pun O toastin a bannack while
she wer' round an that color lasted, as
the poet says, 'wer' unnecessary. But
that want all. neither. She was mad
clean through-as Il sage hen with a
brood of young uns; it stuck ont in
pints all over her. An you could see
where the tears he'd left marks on her
cheeks, through the dust, an her hair
was like shower bath ON her shoulders
How could you be so mean, Jim,
she says.
'Well-you see, mum-er-this
Observation-Disclosures hill is so COMPOUNDED
ornery pu'pendic 'lar--uh-I couldn't
hold 'em upon honor couldn't!
"Of co'se | guess she didn't b'leeve
me ably, but what could She say? We
travelled pretty slow the rest of the road
to camp. | did feel tarnation mean, as
well as soIIy fer her. an that's right! l
wanted to kick myself. 10 make myself
feel-er-ah-oncom l he'd
half mind to make Jumbo do il. But,
then. he was Niger, an didn't know
nothin.
We'll Li'l'field got his leg broke
sho'tly after an that bu st up the expe-
dition--got into "A wrestle with grizzly
an took second money. He left his boss
I'm went close to git good pull, but the
bear was only wounded an charged. He
waltzed with him. / reckon il nd "a
been all day with Li'l'ficld if Wells
hedn' been nigh. He was a dead shot,
you know. As IL was. he got out of il
with broken thigh an cash in his
hip from the bears claw You might
cache flask in. 80 rs soon as he could
be moved we went into Helena an they
left fer England.
"Eh. Oh, the woman! Why-well.
she rode with me ON the wagin after
that when we moved camp-jest orner-
" didn't care 10 much az look at sad
die fer more'n week When she shook
han $ nm says goodby (an was real sorry
10 sec the last of herr, she looks at me
an smiles an says:
An Jim, next time we come 10
Montana 10 hunt, try an pick us out
span Of mules that amt so hard 10
hold up, will you?'
IAN / hanged my head, like derned
idjut, an said l would. William
Bleasdell Cameron in San Francisco Ar
gonaut.
Mile. Hugo.
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