The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-29

centrates from our last cleanup, and
!. Nv the silver bali of anlalgam sizzled
and fried on the shovel over the little
chip-hre, while we smoked in the sun
before the cabin. Removed from. the
salivating fumes of the quicksilver, we
watched the yellow tint grow and
brighten in the heat.
There's two diseases which the doc
TORS amt got any license to monkey
with" began Bill, chewing out blue
smoke from his lungs with each word,
"and they're both fevers. After they
butt into your system they stick cross
ways, like swallered toothpick; there
amt any patent medicine that can bust
their holt"
l settled against the door-jamb and
nodded.
1--WE had them both, acute and con-
tinuous, since was old enough to know
my own mind and the taste of tobacco:
/ hold them mainly responsible for my
condition" He mournfully
viewed his fever-ridden frame which
sprawled pitiful six-feet-two from the
heels of his gum-boots to the grizzled
hair beneath his white Stetson.
''The first and most rabid," he con-
tinued, is horse-racing-and t'other is
the mining fever, which last is heap in
sidiouser in It's action and more linger-
ing in its effect.
ct wasn't long after that deal in the
Territory that / felt the symptoms COM
ing on agin, and this time they pinted
most emphatic toward prospecting, SO
me and 'Kink' Martin loaded our kit on
to the burros and hit West.
(" 'Kink' was a terrible good prospec-
tor, though ALFRED unlucky and pecu-
liar Most people called him crazy,
cause he had fits of goin' for days with
out peep.
"eHosstyle and ornery to the whole
world; sort of bullying out and explod-
ing with silence, as it were.
Wed been out in the hills for week
on Our first trip before he got one of
them deathwatch faces on him, and boy
cotted the English langwidge. | stood
for it three days, trying to jolly grin
on to him or rattle word loose, but he
just wouldn't jolt.
''One night we packed into camp tired,
hungry, and dying for a good feed.
II hustled around and produced sup
per fit for old Mr.. Eppycure. Knowing
that SKink' had weakness for strong
coffee that was simply hinge in him.
| pounded up about a quart of coffee
beans in the corner of a blanket and
boiled out a South American liquid that
was nothing but the real Arbuckle mud.
This wasn't no chahng-dish party
either, because the wood was wet and
the smoke chased me round the fire.
Then it blazed UP in spurts and fired the
bacon-grease, so that when l grabbed the
skillet the handle sizzled the life all out
of my ca1louses. | kicked the fire down
TO nice bed of Goals and then the
coffee-pot upset and put it out. Ashes
got into the bacon, and-Oh! you know
how joyful it is to cook on green FIRE
when you're dead tired and your hoo
docs on vicious.
when the 'scofings' were finally
re -dy, wasn't. in what you might ex-
actfy call a modifying and tactful mood
nor exuding genialness and enthusiasts
anyways noticeable. .
81 herded the best II, camp towards
him, watching for a benevolent syrlp-
tom, but he just logged it in silence and
never changed hair. That was the
limit, so inquired sort of oninous and
gentle, Is. that coffee strong enough for
we, Mr.. Martini"
He give little ifnpecunious grunt
implying, Obi it'll do and with that I
seen little green specks begin to buck
and wing in front of my eyes; reaching
back of me- / grabbed the Winchester
and tfrowed it down on him.
Now, you laugh, darn you,' / says,
in hurry. Just turn it out gleeful and
miraculous
'He stared into the nozzle of that
Krupp for a minute, then swa1lered
twice to tune up his reeds, and says,
friendly and perlite, but serious and
wheezy:
"eWhy, what in hell ais you, VIII
lamp
Laugh, you old dong-beater,' yells,
rising gradually to the occasion, or I'll
bust your cupola like a blue-rock.'
I've got to have merriment,' l says.
Z pine for warmth and genial smiles,
and you're due to furnish the sunshine.
You emit a few shreds of mirth with
expedition or the upper end of your
spinal-cord is going to catch cold
Say! his jaws squeaked like screen
door when he loosened, but he bel :hed
up beauty, sort of stacy and artificial it
was, but great help. After that we got
TO know each other heap better. Yes,
sir; soon after that we got real intimate.
He knocked the gun out of my hands,
and we began to arbitrate. We plumb
ruined that spot for a camping place;
rooted it up in burrows, and tramped
each others stummicks out of shape.
We finally reached an anicable settle
ment by me getting him agin log
, where | could brand him with the cof-
fee-pot.
Right there we drawed up proto-
plasm, by the terms of which he was to
laugh anyways twice at meal-times.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.