The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-07-27

my old lsnife's stiel,in on the moss side
o that tree. Might "a been dream.
Ask Bill
Course You can bet your life that
old canyon was prospected pretty well
after that, but nothin was found. The
specimen was sold and the money divid-
ed between Bill Wilkins and Nuggets
daughter, who had to take care o. him
Wilkins went over into Calaveras soon
after that and fell down shaft about
800 feet deep.
We'll, time went by, and tho law
stopped hydrauleeking, and purity much
every one left tho town that could git
ont o. it, and it amt been worth d-n
sencc
Nuggets daughter she married Bob
Hittel, who was teamstor and didn't
have much o it to do either They was
pore, but they managed to make u liv-
IN and keep old Nuggets besides.
Course You know the old man couldn't
do nothin but sit around and talk those
words / told you of
Every ono was kind to him, except,
BNAAAHliNA 'hNb NfHiAiiltAAi Muo ktDL
the principal store then He youster rile
him good deal and josh him and ask
him when he was goin to open her up
but | reckon ho didn't mean u great
deal ~ harm.
Every now and then Nuggets 'ud
wander over into Rattlesnabe canyon
and spend nigh OH to II day there. When
he'd como back, ho'd be worse TUX than
ever and go moonin around and sayin
those words Changed all tho trees in
tho Rattlesnake-moyod EN- and mixed
'em all up Might a-heen a dream, but
/ don't think So
Bout this time his little gran son
WAS CROWN up, and Nuggets began for
To take him along with him i'll his trips
TO the canyon. Mrs. lIittel, sho objected
mt first, hut when she seen the boy liked
10 20 and her father was dead set ON
hayin him with him she didn't make no
moro objections Tho boy used to say
that while they was i'll the canyon Mug
gets spent most o his time huntin for
something he couldn't find
''Ono evenin i'll the summer time,
bout ten years ago-I WAS here then
myself--Nuggcts and the boy KEN into
town and gave il II surprise that ii amt
got over sence. You can believe ii or
not as you want To, but he'd got back
hismind all right and talked ms sensihly
rs I'm tallSiu now. Don't believe ho
oyer was crazy myself-Just think he'd
got his mind set on one thing and
couldn't gel it of.
But he was purity near crazy with
happiness Hold an old rusty knife in
his hand and he kept sayin to MS all
the time, 'iTwafn't no dream after ALL
'twarni no dream. Seems when they
was IN the canyon tho boy got to playin
around and crawled under II big tree
that 'ad been blown down and found
tho knife sticlSin in 1t underneath
Course you know what that meant
well, Nuggets is all right now. So
was his claim. lIo sold it for purity
nice sum to II couple o. big mining men
down below. SEQ those smokestacks in
tho trees over i'll the canyon Well,
there's II II stamp mill on tho spot
where that knife was found.
n-sittin in front of, and Bob's wife owns
her own house. Nuggets has II mort
gage ON about everything Jake Open
heimor's got left, and tho boy--the
gran son, you lmow-he's down below
in business for himself.
'That's about tho story old Nuggets
ii tell you when you meet him. Some
o. it's true know myself for IL fact, and
! reckon, mobbo, some q it's--well, you
know, Nuggets is II Missourian and
purity good liar himself
The stranger arose. stretched himself,
and. striding up the street. encountered
the one legged druggist standing ip the
doorway of his store
Great story | just heard, - said the
stranger,
Been talking TO the old pioneer"
Pioneer? Why hos not Il forty
miner -
"No, but he's n forty Fighter. "
"Who is he, anyhow"
"lIim? oh, that's Nuggets. Will
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