New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-07

VARIOUS degrees OF lJ1gltuG chasing the i0nO-
rant fatuus Of idle pleasure and thereby lets
the land pirates swipc his claim that was fuller
Of gold than Kelley graduate, that mortal
ain got no license, GOV ment state poetical,
70 boiler.
50 Nose and me didnt-leastwise not
audible. Although i amt betra ying no family
secret when | remarks Kind Of aPropos that the
cllSs-words clabbered III our throats till our
facial inpedinents came purt nigh preciptat-
ing . contlagraton.
Howsomever. we lust stood around, suffer
ing with insrowing language to a degree that
Was scandalouS to contemplate and watched EN-
rock ont an ounce every fifteen minutes. Then
We trailed back t. town and converted ourselves
into the prlfny -flcie evidence of a spree that
was sure lurid ard Swede-like.
:. IN general proportions and enthusiasm the
same could have been conveniently distributed IS
over a period Of SIX months and still had IS
enough sheet lightning and fireworks left over y
Is have made respectable showing in the
wears TO come. But to save time we COM
pressed the exhibition into twentv-four con
seeutive and continuous hours and kept some
thing doing in each Of the three rings Simutan-
e0lS. 10 say nothing of the elevated stage and
tie bippydronle track.
4" When woke up We're the phalanX
and thorax Of the most spectacular e1ngrant
tram that ever naVigated the foothills. Talk
about the dead march in Saul! Partner, II
was a continuous ovation compared with the cortge
ii which me and Nose was the corpse, pall-bearers
rll1urners Ct cef'rl Partner, from start to finish
That there parade was a darll-green streak of
ve-digreed melancholy, thirty miles long. six feet
high and twenrv-1lIne inches wide. Beneath our
feet the 5rearv waste burst into luxurious growth
Of 2rQ-nlWood and weeping Willers- You could
have traled us PERCEPTIONS by the gloom that hung
like a cloud bv day.
About the time that Moses mental moral and
physical condition set me neditatiag upon
sending IN a hurry-up call for an ambulance, two
HOSPITALS a lunatic asylum and the PoS'10rtll5I
general | saw something between a hundred
and forty million sheep gambohng amid the
xardure.
Moses Mont1norencv' SAYS /, 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 mention
chops appeal 10 my better nature.
80 hl saws he bullfroggy, gazing through the
environments of his desperation OH! Then he
stood ike cigar-store Indian, his hand shading
his ewes, squirting at them sheep. lie didn't say
nothing but his optics was singing the prettleSt
cittv YOU ever heard. ! sawed he was ponder
ing upon the DAYS when he barefoot kiddle,
chasing the little lambklns across the medder back
at the old home scanperng across sun-ht stretches
OF sand along the river, or pfungIng through the
tangled grasses, or wadlng IN the placid trout
pools in the alder shadders. But didn't volunteer
no calculations Pretty soon he broke forth into
a rhapsody
Mother used to tell me he begins; but
interrupts.
Noses SAYS |, don't waste none of your
elodl1ence upon the desert air; it will keep, and
besides | amt feeling the jolliest myself
Moses looked at moment like a KID that
wants YOU to kiss its bruised finger; but L turned
and walked away, and he follered.
I'VE hadn't gone more than half the distance
TO a little cabin nesting a hillside, when we
saw Young Teller coming to meet us. lie kept
1l,1rbling to himself and his eyes was glsten1ng
worse than gIaring falsehood He sure had BRAIN
f.r fad-UOOr kidi