Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-13
The Shdndygaff SOiree.

rected TO fill 'em up"
Somewhat dubious as TO the ulti-
mate returns from his fifty dollars
and already Specializing on where his
breakfast was to come from, File
brown filed. And, as before, nothing
resulted more tangible than a sug-
gestion as to the rural quality of the
scenery. But when the supply of
liquids was almost at end, one of the
company, who looked as though he
might have had drink or two before
he got there, stumbled slightly in his
pronunciation of the magic formula.
1.-The shenery," he gravely declar-
ed, lis truly rural
Five dollars, Mr.. JONES'" sternly
admonished the chairman.
what for?" inquired the evident
ly astonished Mr.. Jones. Il said
truly rural
Eyes, but you also said 'shenery'."
This assertion Mr. Jones vehement
ly disputed, and appealed to his
neighbors for support, but they, with
out exception, agreed that he had, in
deed, said 'shenery.'
Besides one of them reminded
him, its against the rules to dispute
the chairs decree
collect the fine directed the in
exorable chair to Fillebrown, and he
lost no time in doing so.
He was still forty-five dollars be-
hind the game, but in the next round
three more of the company fell
down" One of them declared that
the scenery was truly ural,' the next
man insisted that it was '.tuly rural -
and the man who had before said
'fshenery," now, despite evident eff
forts at cautious precision, repeated
| the offense.
This meant twenty dollars in the
treasury, which lucre, however, had
to be spent Immediately for fresh
liquid reinforcement. But the fines
came faster as the consumption OF
the second consignment proceeded
One of the party, who showed q
steadily increasing disability to keer
his eyes open, beckoned to File.
brown.
I'm going to shleep," he muttered
drowsily. You find-bunch Of
fives-vesht pock- (hic)
For, as Fillebrown was to learr
latter, sleepers, too, were fined; thai
is such sleepers as slumbered toi
soundly to be awakened by thor
ough shaking. AS for such as were
able to open their eyes and speak, i
is hardly necessary to add that theil
thickness of utterance invariably en-
tailed upon them the customary pen
atty.
The chairman was the last to sue
cumb; a gentle snore from him wa
the signal for the cessation of tn,
game. And Fillebrown, his trouser
pockets bullying with a harvest 0
golden coin, finally slumbered witt
J the rest.
He was awakened by the glare 0
the sun blazing in through the from
windows of the recorders Office. Hi
glance rested upon a curious scene
The company of the night before, al
asleep, lay about the apartment il
diversified attitudes of picturesqu
tnlovliness. Some with bowed head
resting precariously on the table
edge, others sprawling full length b.
meath the table. One six-footer, evi
IDENTIFY under the impression that h
had found his bunk, had double
himself up within the narrow cor
fines of the wood box. Another. hi
feet carefully composed upon chat
seat, his head on the floor, stoicall
invited congestion of the brain.
To the orderly New England min
of Fillebrown the scene was hal
rowing one. Here were a number {
the most prominent citizens of tn
community utterly incapacitated, an
eternally disgraced-as he thought
by the cause of that incapacity. An
worse than all here was his cousin
the recorder, in plight similarl
sad, with his Office full of inebriate
men, and the clock racing along tt
ward the hour for opening-and
: those busy days the recorders offio
was wont to open at an hour il
credibly early. ct might be mel
toned here that this was Sunda
:, morning, but Fillebrown, in his Ion
journey, had lost track of the da!
and dates.)
So, rousing himself, he hastily a.
preached his cousin, and, graspir
the recumbent figure by the shoulde
" shook it vigorously. The sleepy o
fetal slowly raised his head, al
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