Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-06
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CHAPTER V.

throughout Placerville the following
day that Mrs Clancy had, to use the
nomenclature of the mining districts
skipped with greaser," and SYM
pathetic host of friends at once drew up
set of Resolutions" that were in
ended to sooth the lacerated feelings
Of the deserted husband The pioneers
Of early mining days had a decided
weakness for Resolutions. They
prepared them at every opportunity;
for weddings, births, burials and gen.
rral celebrations, with Whereas" and
Resolved" entered in as many places
as possible; yet, these productions
were often modes of neat penmanship
and grammatical accuracy. for the type
Of gold hunter portrayed by Mark
Twain and Bret Harte, speaking an
unintelligible lingo was unknown in
the mines. Like FenimoTe Cooper's
Indians" the miners of romance be
longed to an extinct tribe that never
existed" Florid in their language, and
often earnestly profane, the advance
guard of civilization i'm the wild and
wOolly West" undoubtedly were, but
Mark Twain's specimens of pioneer
manllness in the mining districts as
delineated by the characters of Buck
Fanshaw" and friend, "Scotty," had
not developed at that day. They were
still embryos in the womb of fiction.
1t must be understood by people who
never lived among the early-day Cali
fornia miners, that their ranks were
recruited from the bravest, most adj
venturous industrious and intelligent
men that were ever banded together
for the purpose of seeking a common
goal; men of brain and brawn-culture
and refinement; and surely few
months in those primeval solitudes,
close to the throbbing heart of nature,
where The dim Sierras to the clouds
uplifted their minarets of snow" could
not have so completely robbed them Of
the power to express their thoughts in
Ineligible English as the libelous
character sketches of the early pio-
neers would indicate. Clancy received
the resolutions and condolences Of his
friends quietly, and said but little. The
Committee waited in awkward silence
for some minutes. Then one of them
said: II suppose you'll follow them
up and kill that id greaser?" mo,
! think not; I'll tell you how 1t seems
to me"-and the poor fellows lips
trembled as he attempted a little wit
ticism that seemed at the time almost
tragic: ut seems like little thing
that happened to me at the hotel.
had gone to bed pretty tired and drop
ped right off to sleep. Well, about
midnight was awakened by a hell of a
noise outside on the porch. 1t was two
cats yowling at each other. AT first I
thought I'd get up and throw some
thing at them; secondly, said to my
self: IF I just leave them alone for
a few minutes they'll be at 1t tooth and
nail and damage each other a ID
sight worse than il threw all the
movables in the room at them; and,
Joys, they did. And for about five
minutes there was more concentrated
agony rolling over that porch than
ever afflicted a martyr on the wheel.
That's my programme, boys; I'm going
to stay with the claim and let my wife
fight it out with the man who shot her
father. Only" and he clenched mis-
hands tightly, "Only, he must never
set foot in Placerville" "If he does,
Clancy" said the former spokesman,
I'VE won't call on you till we get a
rope slung over limb, and then you
shall have the nearest hold. Amt
that SO, boys?" That's sol" came
-oud and strong from the voices Of the
crowd. and another thing, Clancy,
it's pretty hard for a man to work
claim and take care of young one.
Now I've got two of my own, and was
talking it over with my wife this
morning and she says she would just
as lief look after half dozen as after
two. and she's that sorry the way
things nave gone with you that she'll
treat the boy as well as If he was her
own; / know she will" THANK you,
Watson, and thank you, boys"-and
he nearly broke down, strong man
though he was. II appreciate all your
kindness, but" and he stepped and
lifted the child up in his arms, II can't
give up my boy, and now that one who
shall be nameless to him forever, has
abandoned him, am going to be