The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-06-20

the food on the table and replied:
Hell! | had more to eat in the
trenches than whole gold mine
would buy here in New York. This
morning, at breakfast, waiter shov-
ed two little rolls at me-you had to
squint twice at the plate to see 'em
at all.
Whats that ! said.
"'R-r-rolls' the waiter suffered.
Go to blazes!' | said L could
stick one o them in each cheek and
tten have room left to whistle through
EN- for more. When | get up in the
morning I'm a full grown man with
a full grown appetite, l amt can
Iary bird.
over there in France | could eat
"A whole box of bully beef" he went
on, "twenty-four pounds to the box
and all | wanted to leave was the
cans. They used to feed us well and
we bought lot of junk for ourselves,
besides Fresh eggs? Why. you
could buy 'em there cheaper than you
can steal em in New York
1T amt so much what you eat,
anyway as the appetite YOU bring to
| it. | walked a hundred and fifty
miles once in four days with nothing
to eat but half a skunk. 1t was good,
too Nothing the matter with it ex-
cept it's size. | wished it had been
big as an elephant
THE trouble with you city folks
is that your menus are bigger than
your appetites. Anyway, it takes all
your strength to pick out some little
morsel you think you can pay for. Get
out into the open, and you won't care
what you eat, so long as it's some
thing you can get your teeth into.
Il remember the coffee they used to
give us in some of the mining camps.
They must have tied one coffee bean
to ducks tail. let it swim around in
and called it coffee. When | made
coffee. you could have stood a rock
drill in it anu it wouldn't have tipped
over.
I'm fifty-seven years old now: and
while Pm not saying l could lick my
weight in wild cats, | guess | could
lick several times my weight in men
whose most violent exercise is holding
down an Office chair. The trouble
with them is that they've all run to
circumference.
Il haven't got anything against New
York It's nice enough village to
stay in for about week. But II you
want to come up to the fifty seven
year mark with relish for food or a
fight you want to live in the open.
That's the way i've lived. l can ride
and canoe and hunt and tramp. | got
up early and worked like the devil
And when | went to bed ! was through
and slept like baby. | ate honest
food and plenty of it-when | could
get it. Ny meals weren't always on
time, a few days late now and then
But they never missed coming If
waited long enough. | never wore ou
an office chair, and | never wore GU
n,yself---and that's something no
many of fifty-seven can say if they've
lived in towns.
"As for London, or England itself
for that matter, well, if | was a Ger
man I wouldn't waste my breath say
ing: Colt strafe England TIL
folks that have to live there don
need any more punishment than that
Which is a rotten shame, for they ar
as fine folks as you'll meet anywhere
What they've got in England ism
climate. It's a calamity! They pu
steam radiator in your room, to b
: sure. but that's just camouflage.
they ever turned any steam into II
the thing would blow up in shee
amazement. They bring you as niue
ccal as you can hold in your tw
hands-if your hands are small-an
they charge you guinea for maxim
4 il smoke a little. They don't hav
$ any heat in their houses and the
d don't wear enough clothes to wad
gun with They get so used to bein
half frozen that they think they Xix
: it. They'd have spontaneous com
e bustion and catch fire if they ever &c
| really warmed through.
"You can have your London an
your New York for all / care. TIL
big west and the north for me- Mon
tana's the place to live You coul
build a wall around that state an
never have to go outside for anythin
you wanted except tropical fruits an
cotton. A mans word is a good 6
: his bond out there. They began II,
3 ing that way when the courts wei
[, few and feeble. And now they'I
). trained up their courts in the wa
they should go, so that mans VOL
Is still as good as his bond. even
D. he has to go to law to have it Sc
" tied"
t did you get your nickname
n 'Foghorn' out there?" | asked.
II guess so. I've had it so long
. don't remember who began 1t. But
.R do remember one time | was tel
o rhoning from Butte to Missoula, al
Bob Smith--used to be governor
Montana--was there and he said:
IN hal n