| Show v aw the four bullwhackers of bitter creek lck melons in perhaps every person who is somewhat advanced in life can remember borno sorno incident of bis early years which he would really like to forget something that resulted from tue freshness and vast inexperience of youth I remember one which I have spent a good deal of time trying to forget juit before the union pacific railroad reached the bitter creek country I made my first overland trip to the pacific coast I staged il from the then terminus of the union pacific to the central pacific which was pushing east the stage broke down on bitter creek and the passengers had to walk to the next sta tien I grew tired of walking before I reached the ata tion and coming late in the afternoon to where some were camped I concluded conlu ded to stop with them foi the night on their permission to do BO they assented go heartily that I felt at home at once life in tho was something new tome I was young and buoyant and just out of college I waa fond of talking I thought it would be novel and delightful to sleep out wita these half savage ox dievers di ivers with no shelter hut the vaulted stir gummed heavens there were four teamsters and as many wagons while thirty two oxen grazed around in the vicinity of the teamsters one was a giant in stature and wore a bushy black beard another wa shorter but powerfully built and one eyed the third was tall lank and ham awed while the fourth was a wiry redheaded red headed man in my thoughts I pitied them on account of the hard life they led and spoke to them in a kind tone and endeavored to made my conver bation instructive I plucked a flower and pulling it to pieces mentioned tho names of the parts pistil stamens calyx and so on and remarked that it must be indigenous to the locality and spoke of the plant being endogenous in contradistinction to exogenous and thai they could see that it wa not crap tog amous in looking at some fragments of rock my thoughts wan dered off into geology and among otner things I spoke of the tertiary and carboniferous periods and of ibe pterodactyl ichthyosaurus and the teamsters looked at me them at each other but made no response we equalled Equal led down around the frying pan to take supper and as the big fellow with his right hand elabed or sort of larruped larru ped a long piece of ried bacon over a piece of bread in his left hand sending a drop of hot grease into my left eye he said to the one eyed man bill is my copy of in yo wagon I missed it today to day no My Tennerson and volum of tho italian poets is in no abak pere the lank looking teamster biting off a piece ot bread about the size of a saucer said to the big man in a voice which came huskily through the bread jake did yer ever read that volum of that I no but hev often hearn tell on cm yer mean gusins Mu sins of an idl man spoke up the red heade man addres sing the poet yes bev read every lino in ita dozen times aard the teamster with the red hair and as he copped sopped a four inch swath with a piece of bread across a frying pache repealed some lines nodded the poet the of austry writ me a letter highly complimenting in them very techin added the wiry man took no part in these remarks somehow I did not feel like joining in the wiry man having somewhat his appetite rolled up a piece of bacon rind into a sort of single and began to through it toward the northern horizon what yer doia dave asked alie stout man observations on the north star want to make some astrino mical when I git inter well yer ter made that telescope tel scope I could er tuk ye observations for yer bein as I faint but one eye git out yet darned ole carboniferous boni ferous pterodactyl yelled the haime jawed dr verto an ox that was licking a piece of bacon I give a good deal of my time to astronomy str onomy when I was in remarked the tall man over long asked one good while was minister la hooshy then I spent some time down ter kolc hornet exclaimed the lank in waa born my father was a sculptor good sculptor yos well one thought it to look at yer I never was in remarked the ona eyed man when locy pied the cheer of ancient languages in harvard college my health failed and the fellers that had me hired wanted me ter go ter for an out but concluded ter come west ter look holdup tha ryer infernal olo flea bitten ichthyosaurus he bawled to an ox that was chewing a wagon cover I felt hot and feverish and along way from home I got once ter go ter rome wanted to olm pleto my studies sharbut th arbut give it up said the one called davo what for they wanted roe ten run for duvner in virgina virginy Virg iny yer beat cm thunder yes why yer stay wai when my jab as duvner civit out they lecter me Ti bishop an I hurt my lungs preach in come weal for my lungs found cm well im iru provin I did not rest well that night A day came on and the men began to turn over in their blanke td and yawn the tall one aid hello bill how yer makin it oh im indigenous an pave im endogenous an you lanky yer gon of a sculptor exogenous how do you fad jake in one of the three who had responded spon ded belr I walked out a few stepa to a little stream to I felt thirsty and I ached then I heard a voice from the blankets i wonder if them darned ole of ourn are dono grozin then a reply I guess bot tertiary period I walked i little piece on the doai to breah tha morning air I on |
