The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-09-02

4 ull1 10 MS lecl next mOfllns we ldQ
some trouble and was detained a spell
I'm Barstow after that. They couldn't
prove nothin', so they let us go. Then
| Collie got TO talkin' again about n Cal
ifornia road that wlggled up hill and
! through canyon and had one OF these
here ole mission bells where II lit or
for the sky ranch. Funny, for he was
never I'm California then. Mebby It
was the old postcard he got at Albu-
| querque. You see. his pa bought It
for him cause he wanted Il. He was
only kid then. Collie. he says It's
the only thing his pa ever did buy for
him, and so he kept IL till IL was about
wore out from loolIin at IL. But con-
slderin' how his pa acted. / guess that
was about all Collie needed TO remem-
Der him by. Anyhow. he dreamed OF
that road and told me so much about
Il that l got TO lookln' for Il too. i
knowed OF the old Eel Canine Real and
the bells, so we kept our eye peeled
for that particular dream road, kind
OF for fun. We found her yesterday"
What this? The road to our
ranch?
"Uhuh Collie, he said so the minute
we got In that canyon, Moonstone
canyon, you said. We're restin' up and
enjoyin' the scenery. We need the
rest, for only last week we resigned
from dom a stunt In n movin' picture
outfit. They wanted somebody TO do
native sons. We said we didn't have
them kind OF clothes, but the foreman
OF the outfit says we'd do fine Jes as
we was. Ii was flerce-and, believe
me, lady, been through somel been
through some!
"They was two others in checker
clothes and dip lid caps. and they
wasn't native sons. They acted like
sons of-Pd hate to tell you what, Miss
- TO the chief dollie In the show.
They stole her beau and tied him to
the s. T.. tracks--kind of loose, though.
She didn't seem TO care. She jest
stood around chewin' gum and roll
lin her lamps at the head guy. Then
the movin' picture express, which was
retired switch engine hooked on to
n Swede observation car. backs down
on Adolphus, and we was TO rush up
nke-prety fast, and save his life.
"She was a sassy little chicken with
blond feathers and a three-quarter rig
skirt. She had a regular strawberry
Ice cream soda complexion. and her
eyes looked like couple OF glass al
legs with electric lights In 'em. l won
dered II she took 'em out at night TO
so to sleep OF only switched of the
current. Anyhow, up she rides in a
big reddish kind OF automobile and
twists her hands around her wrists
and looks up the track and down the
track and sees us and says: oh, witch
way has he went? WITCH way did
Disgustus Adolphus beat II tor And
chewin gum right on top OF that too.
1t was tough on us, miss, but we need.
ed the money.
"'Bout eighteenth time she comes
coughin' up In that old one lung ma
chine-to get her expression right so
the boss kept hollerin-why, / gets
sick and tired. If there's anything do
in why, I'm game, but such monkey
in! There was that picture machine
idiot worlsin the crank as If he was
shellln thicket full OF Injuns with a
Calling and his fool cap turned round
with the lid down the back of his neck,
and me and Collie, the only sensible
actin ones Of the lot, because we was
actin natural, Jest restin'. / got sick
and tired The next time up coughs
that crippled up automobile with the
mumps on It's front tire, and she says.
where, oh, where has he wentT ]
ups and says, Crazy, miss, and can
you blame himT
"She didn't see no joke in that, so the
boss he fred us. He wasn't goin' TO
pay us at that, but picks up the little
picture machine box and / swings her
up over the track kind of suggestive
like. 'Oner said l. DO we get our
money!
"'Drop that machiner says he, rush
in up TO me.
"T'm a-goin' to- says i, good and
hard. Think again while l count DO
we get our money!
"'You get pinchedP says he
"'Twor says |. and l swings the box
up by the legs.
"Hole on yells the boss. Pay the
mutt, Jimmy. and for Cord sake, get
that machine before he ruins the best
reel we made yet.
1--WE got paid.
"But the bell and Moonstone can
yon?" questioned Louise, glancing back
at Boyar. grazrg down the meadow.
"sure! Well. we Topped near here
that night
"FloppedT
"Uhuh. Let's see. You amt hep to
that. are you? Why, we crawled TO
the hay, hit the feathers. pounded our
ear-er-went 20 bed That's what Il
used TO be. Well, In the morning me
and Collie got some sardlnes and crack
ers 10 the store and little coffee. 1t
was goin' over there that we seen the
bell and the road and the whole works.