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Show one side and mother on the other, and they pulled together then and they are pulling together yet ' Tanik. still have the teams that pulled their effects across the plains in those years, and I overheard a group of men talking the matter over and they came to the conclusion conclu-sion that Tanik had lied this time sure. Finally a young man came up and one man turning to him, said, "say, have you read the last Union?" He said "No." "well, just hear this lie;" and he read it over to him. "Now, will you read a lying paper like that?" "well," said he, "I don't know about the 185G man but I know the 1859 man has got his team all right, and if vou will just wait awhile, you may know it too." But he had one friend there, who, when he was leaving, called him to one side and said, 'Say, tell me who owns those mules? I can't believe the yarn!" "Now, you may not believe it, but I kuow it, for I was the teamster." "what do you mean? how old are you?" "I will be 37 in March." "well, well; that's a cold one. why the year you was born is the year you say you was teamster!" "well, yes, but that's all right You must know my father and mother was poor and couldn't hire a big teamster team-ster and they had me; and they did not have a big wagon, either; just a little cart; and father was on 4 , Hurry it oxi?. Say, Joe, can't you get the Union out a day ahead this time? why, the whole town is hunting up that man that crossed the plains in 185G and the one that , came in 1859, who n |