The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-28
"A MINERS
LOVE STORY
By SAMUEL E. BRANT
Copyright by American Press Asso-
Clation. 1911.

THE fun's all gone outen this yere
| 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 yTre mountings in
| stagecoaches there was all sorts of
things happenen, from loyemakin' to
hair raisin'."
| He took long Cat piece Of tobacco
out Of his mouth, bit off piece and
resumed.
| "l'ye seen all sorts Of things goIn' on
in stagecoaches. I've been held up
by road agents half dozen times;
been chased by Indians; seen couple
that had never seen each other before
start out in coach in the mornin and
married the same eyenin hundred
miles from where they started. And
| had romance oncet. don't know
exactly what you call romance meb-
by. What is it,"
"Oh. where there's lot Of love
| going on"
| That's it-that's my case There
was love enough to pull the coach
without no horses. was ridin' from
| Cheyenne to Denver, and the only pas
| senger Right out on the plains among
the prairie dogs, not Il cabin In sight
nor tree, either, 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 1t onless she paid her fare.
when we reached her she stepped
outen the road and looked up at us
sort Of pitiful. She was a young
thing-not over eighteen though she
was purity tall. l asked the driver to
stop. He refined in. and said to the
gal;
"'Want lift. mlss?'
"I'd like one she said In a hoarse
voice. coughin', but | haven't any
money
"'Git up says the driver. says he.
But stopped him. tellin' him Id pay
the gals fare to Denver. l got down
and opened the door. She got In.
follered her and set down beside her.
Sbe was mighty 'bleeged to me for
| payin' her fare and cottoned to me
right away
| "She had red cheeks and was purity
as a pictur, all except her hair. that
looked as If 1t 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.
axed her what ladies, aud she said
ladies' from the eastern states, where
there vas big towns.
"Of course. she bein' under obliga-
lions 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
settlement between Cheyenne and
Denver | pumps her TO know who
she was, and finally she let out that
she had been lady's maid to an OH
GERS wife Mt Fort --. She was
goin' to st. Louis to see her mother,
who was sick. She'd spent all her
money stagin' II and was walkin' the
rest of the way, except when she
could git lift.
"WelI. we KEEP gtiin thicker and
thicker till at last begun TO make love
like steam engine. Then when I'd
got through tellin' her how purity she
was and how loved her | come
down to business and toIe her IL
struck a hole up ON Clear creek pan
min out 5000 to the ton; that | wa!
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