Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07

goes muShln over ana across numerous and
various degrees of longitude chasing the igno-
rant fatuus of idle pleasure and thereby let's
the land pirates SWlpe his claim that fuller
of gold than Keeley graduate, that mortal
amt got no license, gov'ment, state or poetical,
to holler.
SO Nose and me didn't-leastwise not
audible. Although it amt bctraying no family
secret when l remarks kind of apropos that the
swords c1abbered in threats till
facial impedments came purt' nigh preciptat-
ing conhagration.
"Howsomever, we just stood around, suffer-
ing with ingrowing language to a degree that
was sCandalous to contemplate, and watched EN-
rock out an ounce every fifteen minutes. Then
trailed back to town and converted ourselves
into the prirny-faCe evidence of a spree that
was sure lurd and Swede-ke.
g In general proportions and enthusiasm the
same could have been conveniently distributed 8
a period of six months and still had s.
enough sheet lightning and fireworks left over '
to have made a respectable showing in the
years to come. But to save time
pressed the exhibition into twenty-four con-
secutive and continuous hours and kept some
thing doing in each of the three rings simultan-
eous, to say nothing of the elevated stage and
the hippydrome track.
When woke up the phalanX
and thOraX of the most spectacular emigrant
train that ever navigated the foothills Talk
about the dead march in Saul! Pardner it
was continuous ovation with the COTtcge
in which me and Nose the corpse, pall-bearers,
mourners ct cGtry Pardner, from start to finish
that there parade a dark-green streak of
verdigreed melancholy, thirty miles long, six feet
high and twenty-nine inches wide. Beneath our
feet the dreary waste burst into luxurious growth
of wormwood and weeping willers. You could
have traied precipitous by the gloom that hung
like a cloud by day
About the time that Moses mental moral and
physical condition set to meditating upon
sending in a hurry-up call for ambulance, two
hospitals, a lunatic asylum and the PoSt-Drorttpt
general | something between a hundred
and forty million sheep gamboling amid the
verdure.
:" Moses Montmorencv' says l, diving after my
submerged spirits Moses Montmorency if you
want to desecrate this peaceful valley by surrender
ing your mortal breath hereat and forthwith
I'll give you Christian burial; but for me-mutton
chops appeal to my better nature
"'Oh!' says he bullfroggy, gazing through the
environments of his desperation. OH Then he
stood like a cgar-store Indian, his hand shading
his eyes, squirting at them sheep He didn't say
nothing, but his optics singing the prettiest
ditty you heard. ! sawed he was ponder
ing upon the days when he was a barefoot kidde,
chasing the little lambkins the medder back
at the old home scamperlng sunt stretches
of sand along the river, plunging through the
tangled grasses, wadng in the placid trout
pools in the alder shadders. But | didn't volunteer
CALCULATIONS. Pretty soon he broke forth into
a rhapsody.
Mother used to tell me. he begins; but 1
interrupts.
:" Moses says l, don't waste none of your
eoquence upon the desert air; it will keep and
besides, amt feeling the jolliest myself
Moses looked at me a moment like kid that
wants you to kiss its bruised finger; but | turned
and walked away, and he follered.
We hadn't gone more than half the distance
to little cabin, nesting hillside when we
saw Young Teller coming to meet US He kept