The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-04-10

ten mile or so was uphill mostly, an
7 couldn't travel extra fast; so 1T was
bout two when we hit the summit, an
everything he'd went lovely. Then we
he'd little 'hand-out.' and the descent
begun.
az didn't lose no time. The mules
stepped outgay-me a-poppln the puck-
skin among 'em oncet an awhile Jestto
keep 'em cheerful an in good humor;
an the hill-well, chain-lightnin' could
90 down-with britchin'. / hedn' invent
great ways when heerd fur-off call
like a coyote got a.stray. Jumbo
shifted kind of uneasy like, on the seat,
and squinted sideways at me; but
was a whistlin' The Gal with the Trav-
all Train and didn't see nor hear
nothin', of co'se. Pretty soon the mig
ger he couldn't set peaceful an on
concerned no longer, an stealed a look
benin. Then he leaned forrard, TIL his
hams tween his knees, an chuckled
to hisself. ] paid no manner of notice.
Now he screws round again in his seat,
chuckles an twists a little harder,
squints at me sideways again, and says:
"'She's a-wavin', jim
"'Set still, you blamed, black-breast-
ed sand-piper,' says l; let 'er wave
"He was tol'abul quiet fer a shot
space-while you might cut pipe o
terbacker. mebbe. The calls sounded
pretty faint now. Far back up the
rocky trail, l could ketch the clear,
sharp ring of her hoss's hoofs-'pit-e-
pat! pit-e-pat! pit-e-pat!'-remindin'
me somethin' O. one O. them gals from
the east down in Benton chassayin' up
an down the room in new-fangled
war-dance they call the 'Rushin'
polkay.'
".Jumbo's head swung around again
on its pivot. He squirmed an twisted
an chuckled some more; the fun was
too fast fer his ornery, woolly scalp.
an he bust out:
"'Dah she waves, Jim. Now-now.
she waves Dah--dah! she's wavin'.
Now-now! she's a-wavin, Jim. Now!
she waves. Jim---Jim - Jim = She
waves. Jim--she waves-she waves!
she waves!'
Here he throwed out his wings
undulatin' like, and very takin', and
winds up in a loud Yah! yah! yahn
-doublin' hisself up an contortin' an
rollin' round on the seat till thought
he'd drop out o the wagin. He was
the most eXtropulous coon | ever see
tliat's right. tried TO kick him under
The seat-but fact is, | was a-laughin'
at him till was nigh non campus Mem
phis myself.
"'Pit-e-pat! Pit-e-pat! Pit-e-pat"
come from far back in the distance.
"Now ] commenced to pull in my
mules. We were gittin' pretty well
down the slope, an few miles more
would fetch us TO the camp-ground.
q he'd changed The Gal with the
travail Train fer The Gal left Be-
him Me.O 1t was still middlin' early
in the afternoon, an mighty hct. After
awhile l got my team down to walk.
an before long heerd the boss hoofs
comm closter.
Il turned around an watched her as
she come up. Say!-I've eat canned
lobsters-but you'd oughter seen that
woman's face! Whoosh!-to
stat fire fer the pu'pos' o toastin'
a bannack while she wer' round an that
color lasted, as the poet says, 'wer' on
necessary But that want all. neither.
She was mad clean through-as sage
hen with brood o young 'uns; it stuck
oat in pints all over her. An yeh could
see where the tears he'd left marks on
her cheeks-through the dust; an her
hair was like a shower-bath on her
shoulders.
How could you be so mean. jim
she says
'Well-you see, mum-er-this here
-ah-blamed hill is. so confounded
ornery pendic'lar = uh = couldn't
hold 'em Upon honor couldn't!'
"Of co'se | guess she didn't b'leeve
me badly. but what could she say :?
We travelled pretty slow the rest o. the
road to camp. | did feel tarnation
mean. as well as sorry fer her. an that's
right! | wanted to kick myself to
make myself -er-ah-oncomfort
able. he'd half mind to make Jumbo
do it. But, then, he was a niger. an
didn't know noihin'
well, Li1'fieId got his leg broke
sho'tly after, an that bust up the ex-
pedition-got into a wrestle with a
grizzly an took second money. He
left his boss an went close to git good
pull. but the bear was only wounded
an charged. He waltzed with him.
reckon it 'ud "a been all day with Liz
field if Wells hedn't been nigh; he was
dead shot, yeh know. AS it was. he
got out of it with broken thigh an
cash in his hip from the bears claw
yeh might cache flask in. So as soon
as he could be moved we went into
Helena. an they left there fer Eng
| land.
"Eh? Oh, the woman! Why--well,
she rode with me on the wagon after.
that when we moved camp-jest orner-
ly didn't care to much as look at sad
die fer more'n week. When she shook
hans an says good-by (an' was real
sorry to see the last of her), she looks
at me an, smiles, an says:
IAN Jim. next time we come to
Montana to hunt. try an pick Us out a
| span o mules that amt so hard to "hold
up." will you?'
AN | hanged my head like derned
idjut an said would."-San Francisco
Argonaut.
Where They Hang People.
"Pshaw!" petulantly calculated Mrs.