The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-09-17

Billy Sutzel and me wux trappin'
and huntln down here together in Pat
sgonia for bout three year. an had got
a thunderin' big lot OF furs an skins
Billy seq to me one day, as how II 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 bit of a spell, anyway,
SO ! says bueno. Wen go, We hit the
trail fur Punta Arenas, where nearly
all our furs wus, and where we'd have
10 ketch a boat.
There wusn't nuthln' but these car.
60 tramp steamers In the straits then.
and the feller In the Office there seq
as how no boat won't come for awhile.
so we put up at the Gaucho hotel.
run by a Australia, to wait till she
happened along.
We'd been In this shack couple
o days. an one evenin' | wus down
In the harroom, havin' quiet time by
myself. when all of a sudden | hears
Billy, yelling fer me 10 come there
quick, Well. | grabs my old a..
thinkin' he's in seri's trouble. and tears
back TO his room.
sit down." see he. Il got baliy
good scheme"
| slowed away the gun, disguised,
and gave i'm some advice bout fright
enin' people with heart trouble. which
he took on motifs uf
Look here" he ser, we're goin ter
make our forchin this trip, shore
Wen rig up couple o inkybaters.
and fill EN- with awstrich eggs, an
bout the time we sit TO Frisco
they'll be nearly ready to hatch. an
We can sell EN- alive TO these rich
sports, and mebbc some TO a circus or
menagery. They'll fetch fat price,
an we'd oughter git pile O. coin out
NV en-"
Billy was proper loco bout this
scheme, an KEEP tellin' Il over an
over again, an laffn an whaekin the
table with his fist. and plannin' how
we'd spend the money, I'll blamed If
he didn't git me reused up, too. an so
! said we'dd give II a trial. bein's Il
I'D cost nothin'.
Id never seen inlxy batter on dooty
before. but Bill he'd been on farm
up in Santa Fe, where there wus lots
NV EN-, and then he's mighty handy
chap with the tools. Is Bill. so betwixt
us both we rugged up couple OF big
boxes, and got some spert lamps of n
n schooner an put some rings In the
boxes SOS 10 hang 'em up Ia the boat
with ropes, To keep EN- from rockin'
In bad weather.
That took n couple o days. an then
We started out In camp with the hosses
an some cargo baskets with wool Ia
EN-. 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
bosses loaded In no time.
We got the eggs TO Punta Arenas
and filled up the inkybaters Betwixt
'em they held moren 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 BIN
! went round 20 the frst mate, tellin'
him bout our inkybaters, an paid I'm
ten dollars to let lis put 'em up for ard
In an empty storeroom So we drove
some big staples In the eeilin' an
swung up the boxes.
Everything wus goin' so easy that me
an Bin wuL gcttin' more confident In
the scheme eyry mint.
woman and two kids was the only
other passengers on board cause In
them days mighty few people went NJ
the west coast
We nggered the eggs 'ud hatch gu,
bout week after we got TO Frisco
an reckon they would have. too; bu,
| when We got up here to Callao an
loaded a Bit Of cargo. fciler. with a
bunch OF soldiers. come aboard. an
said the plague had broken out an We
gotter stay In quarantine
Wen, tho plague got wuss an wuss
an We had TO lie there for three weeks
hefo' we got away. an the capin ui
the boat wasn't half ms mad as me an
| Bill cause we foreseeK that the aw
STITCHES are going ter hatch on board
an cause trouble
After we left Callao We couldn't ri,
inter any other port II, after bunch
Of uffishus had nosed round fur a
couple % days. an finally the cRpln
seq that we'd be- two months behind
time when we got 10 Frisco
one mornin' Jest befo' We got "a
Panama, Bill had "A look at the eggs
an comes back maddor'n a fresh
sheared ram. lie says: The aw
STITCHES are comm
We hired he carpenter to make crates
for en-. an IL KEEP I'm working over
time to keep up with the demand Bili
wouldn't 10, me do nothIn, said he's
a proper hurd hnanceer, an wus goin
ter seep herd on EN- hisself
The capin wus BIT sore bout this
sudden cargo o live stock. but Bil