Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-24

man eating his ham and eggs the way I like to see a man eat the next morn- ing. He had black beard that was so strong it fairly jumped out from his face.
 'Mornin',' says I.
 "'Good morning sir" says he. "A day of commingled lucent clarity and vernal softness, ain't it.?
 "'Well, I wouldn't care to bet on that without going little deeper into the subject says l. but it smells good at least-so does that ham and eggs. Mary, I'll take the same, with coffee extra strong'
 "'Yo,l have doubtless been attracted to our small but growing city from the reports-which are happily true--of the inexhaustible mineral wealth of the surrounding region says he.
 "No-o-not exactly says I; but l do want to hear something about mines. Mir. Hoteman out there (who's gentleman of the old school if ever there lived one) told me that you might put lllp OH lO i SOOtl
 "'Precisely,' says be- Now, sir, my name is JOnes-Agamemnon G. Jones' and my pardner, MT. H. Smith, is on business trip, selling shares of our mine, which we have called "The Treasury from reasons which we can make obvious to any investor. The shares, Mr'-
 Saundcrs-Red Saunders-Chanta Secchec Rcd
 "'Mr. Saunders, are 90 cents apiece, which price is really only put upon them to avoid the offensive attitude of dealing them out as charity. AS a matter of fact, this mine of ours con- tains a store of gold which would ID. set the commercial world were the bare facts of it's extent known. There is neither sense nor amusement in confining such enormous treasure in the hands of two people. Consequent ly my pardner and are presenting an interest to the public, putting the nom- inal figure of 90 cents a share upon it,
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 "'What the devil do I care" says I. I'm looking for chance to dig. Could you tell a man where to go?'
 "'Oh.' says he, when you come to that, that's different. Strictly speak ing. my pardner Fly hasn't gone off on a business trip. AS a matter of fact. he left town night before last with two-thirds of the money we'd pulled out of pocket up on Silver creek in the company of two half breed Injuns, a Chinaman and four more sons of guns not classified, all in such state of beastly intOXication that their purpose, route and destina- tion are matters of the widest con lecture. I've been laying around town here hating myself to death, thinking perhaps I could sell some shares in a mine that we'll find yet, if we have good luck. If you want to go wild eating over the hills and far away, I'm your huckleberry.'
  For what I don't know about mining nobody don't know. When do we start?
 "'This or any other minute,' says he, getting up from the table.
 "'Wait till I finish up these eggs says I. And there's a matter of one drink coming to me outside. I may as well put that where 1t won't harm any one else before we start
 "'All right says he, waving his hand. You'll find me outside, at your pleasure, sir
 Il swallered the rest of my break fast whole and hustled out to the bar, where my friend and the hotel man was waiting. Now I'll take that drink that's coming. and rather than be small about it I'll buy one for you, too, and then we're off, says I.
 You won't do no such thing says the hotel man. It's a horse on me, and I'll supply the liquor. Mir. Jones Is in the play as much as anybody
 50 the hotel man set 'em up, and that made one drink. Then Jones said he'd never let a drink suffer from loncsomeness yet when he had the price. and that made two drinks. and that made three drinks. Hotel man said it was up sticks now. and Inc meant to pay his just debts like an honest man. and that made four drinks. Then Jones said-well. by this time sec needn't have hurried breakfast so much More people came fin. woke up the next morning in the same old bedroom. Every break fast Aggv and me got ready to pull for the mines. and every morning woke m in the bedroom. should like tO draw a veil over the next two weeks. but it would have to be a pretty strong veil tO hold 1t. I tried tO keep level with Aggy. but he'd sp"nd three dollars to my one. and the Of that was that we went broke within fifteen minutes of each other Well. sir. ve were a mournful pair to draw to that day. We sat there and cusse,l and said. Now. why didn't we do this. that and t'OtheT thing in stead Of blowing our hard earned ] dough- till bimehy we just dripped ! you might say How ] somevpr. we weren't booked for a dull . time just yet That afternoon there was a great popping of whips like an Injun skirmIsh and into town comes a hull train half a mile long Twelve yole of buIls to the team: lead swing and traH wagons for each. as big as . hnnses cn rl-a.-s- Nrr in--t see tle :