The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-05-11
A MINERS
LOVE STORY
By SAMUEL E. BRANT
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1911. g# FL

country" said the old miner. "Sence
the railroads has been built there
| hain't no more excitement, romantic
Happenings and all that. When we
travelled in these yere mountings In
stagecoaches there was all sorts Of
things happenen, from lovemakin' to
hair raisin'."
He took long fat piece Of tobacco
out of his mouth, bit off piece and
resumed.
ave seen all sorts Of things goin' on
In stagecoaches. I've been held up
by road agents half a dozen times;
been chased by Indians; seen couple
that had never seen each other before
start out in a coach in the mornin' and
married the same evenin' hundred
miles from where they started. And
I had a romance oncet. l don't know
exactly what you call a romance meb-
by. What is it?'' ~
"Oh. where there's a lot of love
going on"
That's it-that's my case. There
was love enough to pull the coach
without no horses. l was ridin' from
Cheyenne to Denver, and the only pas
senger. Right out on the plains among
the prairie dogs, not cabin in sight
nor tree. either, l saw young wo-
man a-footin' it along the road ahead.
was sittin' with the driver and asked
him what he thort she was dom walk
in that away. He said he didn't
know and didn't keer. Like enough
she'd ask him for ride and she would
not git it onless she paid her fare.
when we reached her she stepped
outen the road and looked up at us
sort of pitiful. She was young
thing-not over eighteen-though she
was purity tall. asked the driver to
stop. He refined in, and / said to the
gal: ST.
"'Want lift. missY .a
"Td like one,' she said in a hoaBe
voice. coughin'. but l haven't any
money
0At uP, says IHC ulANClS says A0s
But stopped him. tellin' him I'd pay
the gals fare to Denver. l got down
and opened the door. She got in.
follered her and set down beside her.
She was mighty 'bleeged to me for
payin' her fare and cottoned to me
right away.
"She had red cheeks and was purity
nj ,v, oil hoi hat
looked as II it hadn't never been
combed. 1t was tousled all over her
forehead. axed her if she'd like a
comb outen my satchel for to straight.
en- it out She larfed and said that
was the way ladies wore their hair.
I axed her what ladies, and she said
ladies from the eastern states, where
there was big towns.
"Of course, she befn' under obliga-
tons to me for payin' her fare, we
got on mighty fast. One thing led to
another, and we was thicker and
thicker with every relay. Lucky for
me nobody got in, though there warn't
much danger Of that. for there wasn't
a settlement between Cheyenne and
OcAVCIs i puulDO ucI " hAOW WIN
she was, and finally she let out that
she had been lady's maid to an off,
GERS wife at Fort -. She was
goin' to st. Louis to see her mother.
who was sick. She'd spent all her
money stagin' it and was walkin' the
rest Of the way, except when she
could git a lift.
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thicker till at last begun to make love
like a steam engine. Then when I'd
got through tellin' her how purity she
was and how l loved her l come
down to business and tole her I'd
struck a hole up on Clear creek pam
min out 5000 to the ton; that 1 was
mighty lonely and wanted a wife TO
help me spend the money was max.
in -
'She said she wouldn't give up her
sick mother for no gold mine and was
goin' right on to st. Louis. ! tried to
coax her, but it didn't do no good.
She fit shy after that, and the shier
she fit the more tried to persuade her.
when we got within about ten miles
Of Denver she opened the door and
was goin' to git out, but I TUX hold
Of her and held her. She turned round.
and l never see SIGH a change in any
one in my life. She was just boilin..
CT beg yer pardon said I didn't
intend to insult you. l was just goin'
to try onct more to get you to listen
to-
"'You keep your hands off mer she
hollered in different kind of a voice
from before. I'm goin' to git out OF
the coach, you bloomin' idiot, and IL
you try to keep me I'll knock you into
the middle of next weca
1T was wonderful how that love that
had been swellin' up in my heart like
a balloon collapsed and was a-sinkfn'
down like the outside with the gas all
out of it.
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