The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-13

VOiONOtOVSIOVOtO TOiOVOtOT0lOTo
Adams. He met an ACQUAINTANCE on the
other corner
Hello. there. old man. greeted the
latter Where did you get the Mexico
make-up?"
What is the matter with it2"
( On, nothing ct all. came near hay-
ing q neat proStraition when you got
clnEe to me, that's ALL Where are ycu
! heading for. Dawson Citv?"
| Dawson City, what do you mean2''
You ought TO be all right in the
klontiike with that front That So below
zero could hit you and never freeze you
! at all. That's about the warmeSt
ever saw outside of the ten-twenty-
! thirty"
! Two race track touts were riding on
! a train from Harlem
Well asked one, did you finish
with anv of the dust today?''
| Nope. I put one mark down for a.
couple OF nuggets, but the skate we bet
! ON must have ohoUetht he saw an ice
/ berg when he hit the stretch. for he
just froZe up like he was up in Alaska.
| With an Eskimo on hiB back I'll have
/ to hand that restaurant man a. few gold
| mine stories this evening or else do
\ without the sirloin-''
Saw vcu out riding with the Smith
sisters the other evening" remarked
! the youth With the three-inuh collar to-
the youth with the bicycle cap. What
/ kirrcs Oe a time did YOU .laVe2"
the way"
Chilly. eLa?''
Chilly! Well. I should say 50, Very
much Yukon Valley You can have 'em
after this. I'm no Eskimo"
He had evidently not visited a barber
! in several days, and he also evidently
didn't care whether he formed the ac-
quatntance of one for several more
days. His whishers were a sort of
brindle red, the rest of his Visage was
| another shade of the same color and
altogether he looked like the picture of
| weary Willie in the comic papers
as he entered a Clark street nickel
goes for everything barrel-house a few
| nights ago and called for booze"
The barkeeper handed him a glass
and grassy looking bottle. The man
with the whisl0ers filled the glass to the
brim and then threw down a. quarter.
The bdrkeeper squinted at the size of
the drink, threw the quarter in the
drawer and tossed back a dime in
change.
The man with the whiskers smaeked
his lips as he finished his drink and
pushed away the water offered as a
Chaser" Then he saw the dime He
gazed at il a moment or two in mute
surprise. and then his glance shifted
to the barkeeper.
Say" he said in slow and deeply
injured tones, where do you think
you are? Up in KIondike?"
The barkeeper appreciated the joke.
laughed long and loud and then tossed
the man with the brindle whiskers an
other dime.
A fat man with a countenance the
color of a boiled lobster was vigorously
hopping his heated brow at Dearborn
and Madison streets on one of those
very hot nights in July
Great snakes ne remarked to his
friend the night-hawk cabby, this is
tough going amt To-
yep, replied the other. Il was just
thinl1in' if a fellow could only take a
few box cars full o. this kind O wea-
Their up to that there KlOndike he'd
just be able 10 peddle it out at a $40
nugget a square foot Why. the pa
pers say it's so cold up there that
clothes all the time and dasn't stick
their noses out O. the house fer six
months at time fer fear O freezin' to
death. Why. it gets 50 cold it just
busts all the thermometers an
But the man with the lobster eolored
face had fled 1t was like gazing at a
fire scene in a shop window in Mo-
vember when your overcoat's in hook
and you're still wearing your summer
clothes.
t'weu. 1 see you're there with your
KIondikes,'' remarks a young man to
friend who appeared in a fresh pair
of thicl1-soled winter shoes.
yep" replies the other, as he adj
miringly regards his footgear. very
much over the icebergs, huh? But
don't think III be kicking up many
nuggets with EN- this winter"
The girl with the yellow hair and
the girl with the cold expression Of
countenauce are both very much
KIondfke" in the language of the
slangy young people of today. The
new gold fields have certainly fur
nighed many an excuse for a slangy ex-
preston to those who are fond of
springfng something new in that line
on their friends, and it is not at all
unlikely that some Of the phrases have
come to stay
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