The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-10-02
THE KLoNpIKE MAN.



50 1sss Country.
"I don't care n I d." said the man
from ,Klondiks 10 tho sdmirer who had
asked him to take q drink. "It seems
rather 4nics. too" he resumed, gazing
thoughtfully into the amber depths Of the
glass before him, III seems nice to see
the barkeep pour 1t out"
"Whyf Don't he pour 1t out up In
Klondikef" inquired the man from Sonora.
Certainly not. II you'd pause to think
. minute, you wouldn't ask stlch foolish
questions How would he pour 1t out
when 1t comes in chunksS'
"In ohunksr'
"Certainly-frozeD you know. Up there
o man goes into a saloon. and he throws
sack of gold down and says, Give me u
chunk Of skee bout by s inches and
take your pay outen that. Then tho bar
keep takes a Ratchet and cuts off chunk,
and the man takes 1t to the liquefer and"-
"The-what9"
1.-THE lique6er, but prob'ly you don't
know about II. Up there the stoves in the
s'loons have,little iron wings like built all
around them, and In each wing Is a Chiner
dish. and the customers put their chunks
Of whisky In the dishes and melt them by
the fire. That's why they call the arrange
ment liqueHer, you know. Men drink
oonsid bio UP there, but you never hear
them bowling around like they do down
here"
"Why notP" f...
"They can't, you know, because there
ID so much gold
"What difference does that makea'
swell, you ought to know yourself that
silence is golden. Don't care II do:
Thanksl'
SIS there really so much gold up therep"
"There's consid BILE. My pardnsr up
. there had q 18-year old boy, and ono day
the little cuss took his gun aud went out
to shoot cat that
"a cats didn't know they had cats
up SO near the pole"
eyes, they do-pole cats, you know.
Well, the little cuss took his gun and went
to shoot this cat, and when night come he
hadn't got back, SO we went to look for
him. We found him, and that's all that
saved his life"
"How was thatP"
"The poor little cuss had found gold
nugget and tried to pick 1t up, and 1t was
oO uthSy tlue ITO CpuAuu w ~. 41ib
hands must have beon sweating little
when ho tackled 1t, and you know how
flesh freezes to metal. So there no was,
froze tight to nugget that he couldn't
bulge. Wo had to tako them home to-
gether and thaw them separate The mug
get weighed trifle more'n 819k pounds.
Nc and the other miners left all the big
nuggets up there and only brought home
the little ones because tho big ones was too
heavy for transportation. Talking is dry
work. Thanksl Don't care If I dol
"Seeipg this whisky reminds me Of the
trouble we had with the mosquitoes.
They re bad enough anyway, but when
thoy re intoxicated they re"-
Intoxicated
eyes. You ste, frequently we'd bring
home chunks of whisky and lay them on
the piano OF center table, and the mosque
toes would get to sharpening their bills
against the chunks, and SO they'd get in
ebriated. ~
"That was curious"
"Yes, but they learned what to do for
themselves pretty soon. Ono wouldn't
any moren get how come you go before
you'd sec him strike for outdoors, and
tntn ii you Wutoneu you u hto him hnhrp-
ening his bill on a nugget. That would
fix him all right"
~ don't SEQ how"
Don't SEQ howl Didn't you ever hear
of the gold cure? That's what he took,
want ita There was ono old mosquito
that broke ever twice and"-
"Jabez' said the redheadsd woman
who had jast come into the room.
"Yes, Marisr."
"Ihis is the fourth time I've had ter
call you outen saloon since last spring,
and il ever ii happens again I'll yank"--
I'm comm, Marierl' said the man
from klopdike.
And he went.-San Francisco Examiner.