The Van Buren press., 1898-09-17

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talk 81 Rocky na0BEfain days. avsgs ard
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run 10 drsgs, asked:
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the table snoudon said:
Howard, I've got q kit Of trouble
heavier than I can manage alone;
youTl help ne II you'll Jet ne talk
May II
go ahead, old boy, ard don't forget
you're talking 20 a man from your old
camp"
That i what / said, for felt ior him
sOmehOs. There were lines In this
mans face and hunted look in his
eyes that knew were not born In the
Rocky mountains. I wanted 20 helr
him Ny heart must have got into ny
words, for Snowdon without further
question began his story:
"Ny tunnel. Howard. was down in
Pleasant yaliey-the old Mcdonald
claim. You must remember the
scoiehnanT"
Yes. remember him; hot old
party"
We'll. l knew every inch Of the hill
open up. by the tunnel. some blind lead
nc one had tapped from Caribou hill
That's why / bought the tunnel wher
old Mae died; why. / put all my cash
and i've years work into II. More
than once I was for ehueking IL. and
] would II Il hadn't been for the Ame'
fOlks. Ever meet Ames?"
NO; he must be a newcomer"
"Of course" exclaimed SnowdOu
''he came TO Caribou after did. Anne,
fsrmed that little ranch In Pleasant
Valley; no good himself; drurk sil
days out of seven, gambling the other
say. His father waE q rich Boston man
who eouidn't hold the boy In, 30 pen.
stoned him and put him out of sight
! neser took any stock in AmeE, but bis
wife. Clara, and their little child. Jessie
why. in a short time they were the
whole valley 10 me. There is some
ihing almighty fetching, Howard
sbout 4 free moving, high-spirited
womaI: end ihh Clara Ames, she was
both. Maybe IL was the Colorado air
maybe il was getting away from a
brickeo-up city; / don't know Just
what i vas, 90 know they were both
svfHlly alive, and the sight Of such live
people set my blood tingling as d;
Aever tingled before.
''Ciara aud Jessie used TO come tc
Tie mouth u my tunnel about noon
every dos. this was the time when
sams out TO eat niy dinner. They both
seemed 70 take 10 me. I don't know
Why. Maybe they'd never seen a char
- queer in get-up and ways Maybe
toe. IL was only my fiddle, for had q
'sure enough fiddle. and could make
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