Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-09-26

hearted 10 De cast GOWN Dy Cne HALL
criticism of the correspondence he
was sending to the Banner.
He had an engagement that even
ing with Ruth billiard and her
father; indeed, his was a standing
invitation at the billiard home, and
almost every afternoon since his ar
rival at Gold Valley found him
there.
|. AS he started from the hotel he
was accosted by a familiar voice
shouting, Hello, pard, how dye
do - and Gideon Gibbons thrust
out his long arm and freckled hand
to salute Fred in true Western fash
ion. He still wore his sombrero and
regulation high-topped boots.
Fred assured Gibbons he was de-
lighted to see him, which in way
was truth inverted. 81 knew you
would be- said Gibbons. "'You
see, I've given up the real estate
business down at Waterville and
have turned stage-driver. OF course
every man in this ere country is
lookin' for promotion. The worst
I'm tryin' to find is the best of it.
Men are sort of like lambs in an
open pasture; they browse on that
part of the range where the grass
is sweetest, where the sun shines
Iwarmest, and where they don t git
the worst of things. I don t reckon
| IN any smarter than other people :;
nevertheless, I've had my eye ON
this ere job for several months. but
you bet your tarpaulin, them other
real estate agents didn't know moth
in about it.
You may be sure that il is
mighty elevatin position to drive
a. six-horse team through these ere
deep mountain gorges. in all kinds
of wind and weather, Had to
give a mighty stout bond, too, for
we handle all the express matter
and thar's heap of gold dust
hauled down from this ere camp. p"
Fred was glad in a way to meet
any man whom he had seen before,
however slight the acquaintance
may have been, although he was
just now quite eager to hurry on to
the billiards In the course of
their conversation Gideon Gibbons
confessed to him that in their for
mer talk he was "givin it to him
jes a leetlep in regard to the lots
Fred purchased from the Town,
Company
/ "You see" he said, g the facts
are, the Town Company of Water
vile has made that air town, and
are still maxim it, It's a mighty
peert place, and it's CROWN peer
ter all the time.
Fred wondered whether all the
honorable intentioned fellows of
Waterville would talk in the same
way about the Town Company, il
they were occupying positions
where their interests were no longer
adverse to it.
i "Then you don't believe paid
too much for my lotsY" he asked
looking up with quizzical expires
sion.
"No," said Gibbons, "them lots
are all right, pardner, you can BET
a new whiplash on that, and will
make you barrel if you hold on
to 'em. They sold EN- to you dirt
cheap. That was jes leetle com,
, petition talk | was givin' you that
night down at Waterville. No one
5 means much what they say, do they.
) Out here, you know, these ere
, things we say don't count, anc
5 the more you have, the more YOU
! rake in durin the game Business
l is business, you know, and it, M
4 use prayin fur a buyer, unless
you hustle fur him at the same
: time. Heaven, I've noticed, has
| a way of answern' prayers to the
Teller who helps himself by hustlin
| tell you, when your sellin towr
{ lots man has to talk fur his owl
9 interests.
: GIVE throwed up the hull blank
ed business of sellin' lots since
was promoted. Old Dick Ballard,
; he continued, lis jes as prmi
facie as ever, and his lip-well it,
e liable to bleed almost any time, i
n you catch him off his guard anC
b git him to laughin', and he still