The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-15

colonel, and me a high private.
Course after the war I kinder lost
track Of them, 'ceptin' Cap, Of course.
I made it point to drop around to
his ranch and cook for him durin' the
season about once in so often. Cap he
didn It low no whisky there, so twas
easy for a Teller to save up a stake
It low him to have a good old time
fore it was time to hike to the woods,
and never couldn't do it anywheres
else: ...-,
bugs Come ssG 6kn a IN a and tSe ne SS
thought from their looks that either one
Of them was anything better'n a old
lumberiack. Old straw hats they had
on, and old clothes, and no more dig
nifty in both Of 'em than there is in lit
tie Adam. Said, they did, that they had
fair run away to git shut Of politicians
where they was, not even their wives,
and they didn't care, whether school
KEEP or not, they was out for a good
time, and wanted me and Cap to see
| they got it. Knew me right off, both
of 'em, tho I hadn't seen hide or hair
Of 'em fer years, and both of 'em was
thicker n thieves with old Rabbit Lake
Jack, the Injun, fore they'd been there
e%s @ aaKs Kea1 ynf Rna
it own kind whenever it meets it,
and chums right in with it, whether
its rich or poor, white or red. They
| went bv the names of Bill and. Dave;
| wouldn't stand for anything else, and
we sure did have high excessive time
for spell. Fishin' and huntin q ev 'ry
day, and more fun than puppy could
jump; over, especially after Mr. Wrinkle
| come. 81 .
| =. Called Names. ...-
| CT didn't know why the senator
called that gilly Mr.. Winkle-behind
his back, that is-till after they ID went
| the Pickwick Papers, and then I tum-
| bled. Also I got on to why the SEN
ator introduced the judge as Mr.. Jingle
and himself as Mr.. Tupman. They was
playin this Wrinkle man, his real name
vas T9mpkins, and he he spslt it T Emp
it to the queens taste, too. Wrinkle,
he was the limit. He wore them Eng
lish brooches that'd scare the bears
he had leggins he called puttys, and
hersehide shoes that famed him long
fore he broke 'em in, and then he
was just as new as his clothes, gun
and tackle. And he took us for a lot
of old country jakes, that didn It know
nothin and that mistake delivered him
right into the hands Of the senator and
Judge, not to mention old Jack, and
they didn't do q thing to him. Cap,,d
fun but he happened to have to &c
below Just fore Wrinkle come out, and
we had a free hand to give him his
deservings. First off they took him
fshin in Shoal lake, where the water
WASH It more n three feet deep nowhere
and there WASH It nothin' to ketch but
little snake pick rel, but Wrinkle
was havin a great time draggin' ZEN
in.J Then Bill and Dave, havin founl
out he couldn't swim, managed tt
capsize the boat, and drown his rod ant
reel, but histed him on top Of the boa
and actually got him ashore 'thout hin
ketchin on that they was really wadin
when they was pretendin to swim ant
push her along. He couldn It thank ZEN
enough for savin' his life, and whe1
he give him a five dollar bill.
Then they stuffed him that the,
would have a rabbit and partridg
drive like the heightened sports doe
it in England, and Old Jack poste
Wrinkle on the edge of big tamaracl
swamp where he couldn It see anyhod
, else, and went in with two more 1niun
, | To 90 Gue DcdClu tTeCCy soon TdDD1
showed up and Wrinkle let go at him
and right off there was the derndes
hullaballoo you ever heard in tn
swamp and out busts an Iniun holdin
on to the seat of his breeches an
yellin' bloody murder at ev'ry jump
Hit the Indian.
Course the whole crowd gethere6
! and it was plain as day that Winkl
had missed the rabbit and hit the In
!, jun, and mighty glad he was to give u
ten and call it square. Old Jack du
the shot out Of the other Injun wit
his knife, and he wan It hurt bad. Yo
z see old Jack himself had shot him, an
. he was too far off to hurt him yer
t bad. An Injun can joke too when h
: gives his mind to it, but he's too ap
9 to put whole lot of his natural SER
: BUSINESS into the performance. Their
3 WASH t no more drive that day, Winkl
bein too much shook up over his nal
: row escape from KILN a human bein
( to want to take any more chances
7 Then they put up mother job on hir