Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-04-28
WESTERN DRIFTW0OD
The Man From Nowhere

just the same way as they do now
away back in the time when An.
tony was busy roping Cleopatra,
but they didn't sit down and try to
analyze it the way they do now
I'll bet YOU that Orpheus wasn..,
writing newspaper specials abou,
| how he loved Euryiice, and Fury
dice WASH, telling anxious females
through! the magazines what to DO
when Reginald or Harold wanted
TO break "ff the engag ement be
cause their lady loves chewed gum
No, stranger, love in those days
was taken as natural condition.
and when folks fell in love the
d!dr'' get all heated up about ,ri-
tles, either. .. .. .,.. --., ..a.
The trouble with me is tia, !!
just wen, along believing i'll ,hat
old kind of love You see, stranger.
was broueh: up III the East, KEEP,
right at home in a small town
going to school and to church an
| all that uili, il was time for me 10
go to college, Before l go, through
college had whole let of new
ideas, but the outstanding lea was
that l wanted TO wander. H'w-
ever, I didn't wander, not RICH,
away. I went home and started
into business, aud it was while
was home there that l met the fin
est girl in the world. I wanted to
get married right away, because
that girl sue had been roped, tie
and thrown, stranger. But when !
came TO have wash up, why there
wasn't enough color i'll my sluice
box to buy parlor carpet Just
about that time things got noisy up
Nome way and, after debating the
thing backwards and forwards and
from both sides, went over to the
girls house one night aid told her
I was going to hike We had a
pretty weepy evening and all tina;
and maybe it wasn't hard tor me;
but the last thing she said was,
IN be here waiting for you when
you come back. boy, and whether
you're rich or poor, or sick or III
health, I'll be wanting you Then,
just before 1 closed the front gate,
she whispered God bless YOU
It's plumb indelicate in me-,
stranger, telling you all this, but il
helps me to have somebody know,
and as there's no names mentioned
and as I won't BE- round these parts
again, l reckon it can't hurt very
much. @"~
II could &C. on and tell YOU books
of stuff about the luck l didn't have
in the North. I wrote eve,ytime
there was chance to get mail out
and l always intended to hike back
the next summer. But always
when next summer Came the
chances seemed better and finally |
hit it fairly good and got together
enough stuff to make start. That
was last year, stranger. Things
have happened since then l went
home all right and I saw my f,lk~
and the fist thing they toll M
wa, that the girl had tied up with
another chap. 1 don't blame her
1t seems she didn't get any of my
letters. and my own folks got non=
for some reason or other didn't
get any home letters, because was
shifting camps so often. Anyway,
just figured it out that the world
had hit OH too far ahead for ME.
didn't see the girl at all, didn't let
her know l was home. I trans
terred most Of my little pile to my
mother, and then l hit out again.
I went down. into the Panhandle to
try my luck there, and from that l
went into Mexico and took whack
at mining there. But there's too
many people around and was al
ways thinking, thinking and won
dering. I spent my pile and