The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-09

q state of Eeastly INVESTIGATION that their
purposes, route and destination are mat
ters OF the Widest conjecture I've been
laying around town here hating myself
Is death. thinking perhaps | could sell
scmc shares in Il mine mat well find
yet ii we have good luck. II you want
10 go wlldcattins over the hills and ral
away I'm your huckleberry'
That hits me all right" says L. FOR
what / don't know about mining nobody
oont know. When do We start"
This or any other minute" says he
getting up from he table.
Walt till | finish UP these eggs" says
|. And there's a matter of one drink
coming to mo outside. / may as well put
tnat where it won't harm any one else
before We start
"All right" says he, waving his hand.
you'll find me on, sldc-at your pleas
ure. sir"
| swallowed the rest Of my breakfast
whole and hustled out TO the bar. where
my friend and the hotel man was wait
ing. Now III take that drink that's
coming, and lather than be small about
it. IN buy one. for you, 100, and then
we're off, says l.
You won't co no such thing" says the
hotel man. It's horse on me. and III
supply the liquor. MIR Jones is in the
lidy as much as anybody.
So the hotel man set EN- up, and chat
made one drink. Then Jones said he'd
never let drink suffer from lonesome
ness yet when he had the price, and that
made TWO drinks | had to uphold the
honor of TIE ranch. and that made three
drinks. Hotel man said it was up sticks
now. and he meant 10 pay his JUS debts
like an honest man, and that m3de four
drinks. Then Jones said-well, by this
time / see l needn't have hurried break
+ last so much. More people came in. |
woke up the next morning in the same Old
bedroom. Every breakfast Aggy and me
got ready to pull for the mines, and
every morning l woke up in the bed
loom. | should like to draw Il veil over
the next two weeks, but it would have
TO be a pretty strong veil to hold it. /
t.ied to keep level with Aggy. but he'd
4 spend three dollars to my one, and the
consequence of that was that We went
broke within fifteen minutes of each
other.
Well. sir, we were a mournful pair to
draw 10 that day.
4 "Aggy," says | at last, I've leave here
tomorrow morning.
"All right" says Ag This sporting
life is the very devil. l like out doors
as well as the next man, when l get
/ there.
So the morrow morning, away we went.
All we had for kit was the picks. shovels
and pans. the rest OF our belongings
Was staying with the hotel man until we
made raise.
Ag said he'd be cussed if he'd walk. A
hundred and fifty miles of 4 stroll was
too many.
+ But we amt got cent to pay the
stage fare, said /.
Borrow il of Uncle Hotel keep" said
he.
Not By town Site" says /. I'VE owe
him all we're going to at this very
Llinute-you'll have to hoof it, that's all"
Il tell you | won't. l don't like TO
lave ANYBODY walk on my feet, not even
myself ! can stand off that stage driver
so easy that you'll wonder | don't take ii
up as a profession. Now, don't raise any
more obiections-please don't says he.
81 can't tell you how nervous you make
/ me, always finding some fault with every
thing | try 10 do. That's no way FOR Il
hired man TO act. let alone PARTNER
So, of course, he got the best of me,
and we climbed into the stage when she
come along. Now, you wouldn't find
many men in that country who wouldn't
stake two fellcrs to a wagon ride where
ever they wanted to go and be pleasant
about it, I'd have sure seen that the
man got paid, even if Aggy forgot it. but
the man that drove us was the surliest
brute that ever growled. When you'd
sneak to him. he'd say, "Ugh''-a style of
thing that didn't go well in that part of
the country ! kept my mouth shut, as
moving that didn't have the come-up-
with weighed on my spirits; but Aggy
gave him the jolly. He only meant it
! ii fun and there was plenty of reason
for it, too, for you never seen such
game OF driving as that Teller put up in
II your life. The Lord save u.s. He
cut around one corner OF a mountain, so
that for the longest second I've lived
through, my Left foot hung over about
thousand feet CT fresh air. I'd haye had
lime to write my will before ] touched
bottom if we'd gone over. ! don't know
as | turned pale, but my hair amt bee9
CT the same rosy completion since.
Well" says Aggy in surprised tone
OF voice when we got all four wheels on
The ground again. Here we are!' saws
4 he Who'd have expected it? l thought
/ he was going to take the short cut down
I to- the creek"
The driver turned round with one
corner of his lip h'sted-a dead ringer OF
mean man. Says he to Aggy Yer
/ funny hloke, amt yer?''
f., Why" says Ag., that's for you to
| sav-wouldnt look well coming from me
but if you press me. I'll admit ! give
birth to little gem now and then.
| Our bold buck ruts on great swaGger.
1 We'll. yer needn't be funny in this
} wagon" says he. The pair of yer
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