The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-26

100 w with the r"eIrat ;, His ears buzzed
side of another minute tbo men IN
flowed out again. and the afteraoo,, ~ Ia,
was Vits iookin GOWN, calm-like as ever.
The ground bein' soft now nag 1,, peen oone
his way out, and ne looked 1899 SUI t too
Somehow the gulch seemed s sttounu, Wv
Gin lin the the n nrs t, place there wasn't a
house se was N go sigh' III. Even the bunk
had secured the diggin's of All tbs ;rer iUU
and had polished the hillside rocks so
thereafter there p R Rlign ba tnat Bill figured that
through smoked glass. ResiGas II nd
done some placer mining on its own
hook for 1T had scooped up and washed
o ob6.,,+ as near as Bill could calculate.
bank
'Descendin'. Bill saw gold glitterin' at
nm everywhere: All the way down the
as. your thumb-and a Couple Of mile
below there he even found colors. He
also found the Chinamen-all scattered
dbetr ci an6 punched up against boulders-
all turned up with a singular scared
LOOK. Bill counted EN-: The whole lot
vas there-seventeen Of em-not soul
eGSonfucius. Then Bill, after draggin'
them over to a neighborin' gully. and
burryin' 'em, shook his fist and says:
o,,5ts lucky you got drowned before
your own pig tails. But let it go as 1t
Is. amt mean enough to kick Just be-
cause l got little outside help
And then, indin' some rice and stuff
lodged lower down, he made a meal-the
first in three days-and then returned
and I'd staked off the claim.
Now, this was the beginnin' of Bits
start IN life. He worked hard. and at
night he had good dreams. The red
headed girl no longer made faces at him,
but. instead. took to smilin'. Then Bill
knoWed he'd got the right bunch when
he took to prospectin', and that it was
comm his way to win out So for three
years he stayed with 1t, bringin his
semi,annual clean-ups to town and put
ginnin of his fourth season, he sold out
for big roll to Eastern sharps, and
come me into town to stay.
Soon you wouldn't have knew him.
For the first thing he done was to reel
off his mimi clott es and get into a store
suit. Then next, he got shaved and
cologned, and bought himself an UNI
brella and a walkin' stick. And. finally,
he tit up ground floor Office for to loan
out money, and where he could sit in one
Of these big leather whirlagig chairs all
day and stare out at the common herd
"Of course, the old bullwhackers never
knOwed him. Nor did he know the old
bullwhackers. The society he got to
runnIn with wore white shirts, with
paper collars, and give functions at one
another's houses. And after a while,
them that could get Bill to loan 'em
funds began to call him colonel, and Bill
done his best to look it. He even got a
plug hat and pair of nose-grippin'
eyeglasses, and all this, coupled with
the barber a-shaVin' his head high, gave
him such a intellectual look that the
women folks began to say he was the
handsomest man in town. One woman
in particular that he'd met at a function
appeared to admire Bill more'n the rest
and from the start he'd paid her, too,
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on her regular and inside a year they
was married. Then Bill, havin' bought
the big brick house at the other end Of
town, next slowed Mrs. Meesby inside.
and give a masquerade ball
Now Bills regular costume for this
pail was that of an Afghanstan prince,
but the afternoon OF the dance happenin'
to see his old wagon boss down town he
thought Of a neWrseheme This scheme
was to appear that evenn' in his old role
as bullwhacker-ragge whiskers, bull
whip and all. And, with the wagon
boss help, he managed to get rugged out
just as he wanted.
AT O'Clock that evenin'. and just be-
fore the guests began to show up, Bill,
l know. stalked into his wife's dressin'
room and waited Identification. Mrs
Meesby was just coffin her red hair In
a fashion to make her look like Queen
Ihen she ran her eye over his blue shirt
and his patched trousers and his white
nat, with his hair stickin' through. and
noted his big boots with the heels runnin'
over so that they showed more bottom
than SIDES. and screamed For minute
she really thought he was what the books
call intruder. But when Bill hcIIerej.
gee haw Brigham" and cracked his
whip couple of times. fnisfin' FtFe per
formance by. KILN two flies with the
point of his lash, a sudden sort of seen
you-oetore look come into her eyes, and
she gasped. =
g" rs 1t possib!er she asked almost IN
faint is it pOssible!' Can it be that
nave married-that you-you are that
horrible man ! saw a few years ago down
the stage roads? -
bill chuckled
I'm him. he said. Ieastwise. him
and me are the Same ones. / had dim
ldee at the time that some day I'd make
you wish you hadn't perked up your chin
at me. However, now we're even
, Ana slVln his bull whip final flour
lSh blil left the room, made a lightnin'
ichahSe OF toys and a half hour later
WAS Was IaiSiin with his guests down stairs
H9okln every Inch like prince of AZ
gnanlstan After this little episode they
pa cred up peace and went to traveIlin'
= l- lla!iy they struck China. and there they
are yet And. curious enough, THEY'RE
both prisoners this time. beth Of en-
Deln cooped up in Pekin. And that's
why m reminded of EN- every time I
gicK up newspaper. Then, too knoVyi,'
bIil history as | do, and the way he cot
cutSldG heip when he was in trouble he
lore m daily exDectin' TO read Of =
Hood or TWO comm to his assistance
again and drownin' the whole banned
race OF plgtails from one end of their
Old rice field to the othery N't