Arizona republican., 1905-04-16
By eelett Burgess and Will Irwin.

My name is Admeh Drake. Mine ain't a story book yarn like yours, pardner or a tale of spOOks and phan- toms like yours. You can get away from ghosts when there's other people around or it's daylight, but there's some things that you can't get away from in a thousand years, daylight or dark.
 A fellow that I knew from the P. L. outfit loaned me a story book once by "The Duchess" that said something like this, only in story book language:
 "A woman is the start and finish of all of our troubles
 I always remembered that It was a right nice idea. Many and many ; the time that, thinking over my troubles, I've remembered those sen timents Susie Latham, that is the finest lady in the White River country. she was the start and finish of my troubles.
 Ever since we were both old enough to chew hay Susie and traveled as a team. The first time that ever ! shone in society I did it with Susie by my side It was right good of her to go with me, seeing that 1 was only bOund-boy to old man Mullins, who brought me up and educated me, and Susie's father kept a store. But then we were too little to care about such things, me being Il and Susie g. It was the mum social of the First Bap- tist church that l took her to. You know the sort? When the boss Sun day school man gives the signal you clap a stopper on your jaw tackle and get fined a cent a word if you peep. Susie knew well enough that l had only 5 cents left after 1 got in, so what does she do but go out and sit on the porch while the talk is turned off so that she wouldn't put me in the hole When they passed the grabbag blew in the nickel and got a kid brass ring with a red glass front and gave it to her. I said it was for us to get mar ried when We grew up.
 "Why, Admeh Drake l like your gall" she said, but she took it just the same. After that Susie was my best girl and I was her beau. I licked every fellow that said she wasn't pret- ty, and she stuck out her tongue to every girl that tried to joke me be- cause l was Mullins boundboy. We graduated from Striped Rock Union High School together. That was when I spent the happy hours running wild among the flowers in my boyhood $ happy home down on the farm. After that she went to teaching school, and I struck first principles and punched cattle down on Mullins x c x ranch Says l to myself, I'll have an interest here myself some time, and then mar red H. be to Susie if shell only narle the day l had only six months before was Co be out Of bound to old Null lins.
 Being darn fool kid, I let it so at that and wrote to her once in a while and got busy learning to punch cat tie Lord love you. didn't have much to learn. because I was raised in the saddle. There were few of them better than me if I did have a high school education. My eyes had gone bad along back while I was in the high school calling for spectacles. When l 1rst rode il giglamps. they used to josh me, but when I got good with the rope, and shot off hand with the best and took first prize for busting bro1chos Fourth of July at Range City. they called me the -Four eyed Cowpunch- er" and I was real proud of it. wish it was all the nickname l ever had "The Hero of Pago Bridge"-I wish tG God
 x Q x is seventy miles down thf river from Striped Rock. Seventy miles ain't such a distance in Colorado, only I never went back for pretty near two years and a half, Then, one Christ