The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-09-11

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Billy sez to me one day. as how It I'D
be best to take EN- to Frisco and sell
EN- there. as we couldn't git half the
wuth Of EN- here. an, besides, we
oughter have a bit OF a spell, anyway,
so / says bueno, wen 60 We hit the
trail fur Punta Arenas. where nearly
all our furs wus. and where we'd have
to ketch a boat
There wusn't nuthin but these car
go tramp steamers in the straits then,
and the feller in the ofiee there sez
as how no boat won't come for awhile,
so We put up at the Gaucho hotel,
run by Australia, to walt tn she
happened along.
We'd been in this shack couple
o. days, an one eyenin' wus down
in the barroom, haYin' quiet time by
myself, when all OF a sudden I hears
Billy, yelling fer me to come there
quick. Well, grabs my old A,
thinkin' he's in seri's trouble, and tears
back to his room.
sit down" sez he. Il got a bally
good scheme.
slowed away the gun, disgusted,
and gave I'm some advice bout fright
enin' people with heart trouble, which
he took on notis uf
"Look here. he sez, we're goin' ter
make our forchin this trip, shore.
Wen rig up a couple o. inkybaters.
and fill EN- with avstrich eggs. an
bout the time we git to Frisco
they'll be nearly ready to hatch. an
we can sell EN- alive to these rich
sports, and mebbe some to a circus or
menagery. They'll fetch a fat price.
an we'd oughter git a pile o coin out
Nv en-"
Billy was proper loco bout this
scheme. an KEEP tellin' 1t over an
over again, an lahin' an whackin' the
table with his fst, and plannin how
we'd spend the money, I'll blamed II
he didn't git me reused up, too. an so
| said we'dd give Il a trial. bein's It
'ud cost nothin'.
I'd never seen a inkybater on dooty
before. but Bill he'd been on a farm
up In Santa Fe, where there wus lots
Nv EN-, and then he's q mighty handy
chap with the tools. is Bill, so betwixt
US both we rugged up a couple OF big
boxes. and got some sperit lamps oif'n
a schooner, an put some rings In the
boxes SOS to hang EN- up in the boat
with ropes, to keep EN- from roekin
in bad weather.
That took a couple O days. an then
we started out in camp with the hosses
an some cargo baskets with wool In
em, to. fetch the eggs. You know
how plentiful is awstrich eggs now
in December? Well, they's lot more
plentiful than days, an we got the
hosses loaded in no time.
We got the eggs to Punta Arenas.
and flled up the inkybaters. Betwixt
'em they held more'n 400 All over
the outside Of the boxes we painted
in Spanish and English Handle
with care" an "Delikit contents"
Purity soon the old boat hove In
sight-Englishman she wuz, bout 5000
tons.
| When everything wuz aboard. Bill
went round to the FIRST mate, tellln'
him bout our inkybaters, an paid I'm
ten dollars TO let US put EN- up for'ard
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some big staples in the ceilin' an
swung up the boxes
Everything wus goin so easy that me
an BIZ wuE gettin' more confident in
the scheme ev'ry mint
A woman and two kids vas the only
other passengers on board. cause In
them days mighty few people went up
the west coast.
We fggered the eggs I'D hatch out
bout a week after we got to Frisco
an I reckon they would have, too: but
when we got up here to Callao an
loaded a bit Of cargo. a feller, With q
bunch Of soldiers, come aboard. an
said the plague had broken out an We
gotter stay In quarantine
Well. the plague got wuss an wns1
an re had to lie there for three weeks
befo' We got away, an the cap'ln al
the boat wasn't half as mad as me an
Bill, cause we foresees that the aE
strlches are going ter hatch on board
an cause trouble.
After we left Callao We couldn't I'll
inter any other port tn after a bunch
OF ufnshuls had nosed round fur 1
couple OF days. an hnally the cap II
seq that we'd be two months behinC
time when we got 10 Frisco
One mornin' jest beio we got L
Panama, Bill had a look at the eggs
an comes back madder'n a fresh
sheared ram. He says: The as
striches are comm"
We hired the carpenter 70 make cratel
for EN-. an It KEEP I'm working over
time to keep up with the demand. BIZ
wouldn't let me do nothin'. said hei
a proper burd fnaneeer. an wus goln
ter keep herd ON 'em hlsself
The cap'in wus a BIT sore bout thi
sudden cargo o live stock. but BIZ
civ i'm a roll Of fox skins an
guanaco capa an some furs to thl
other officers. 80 they's Bills friend
then. an the flrst mate told the cool