Show NUGGETS LUCK how the spruce looking stranger strang ger got into the little old dilapidated town up in the sierras none of its inhabitants appeared to know but most of them were extremely anxious to ascertain seldom it was as that any one wen went t to the town apparently the there was no lar lax reason why any one krould the surrounding scenery was ivas grand it is true but the town could make no claim to being an ea essential part of the gran deur its one street straggled up the mountainside for a short distance distan ce and lost its way in the forest A long ram ram shackle hotel several despondent looking stores and a number of saloons made up what it was pleased to call the business portion of the town infill on all sides and as far as the eye could see however were mere the imperishable evi eyl dancea of what this little town onoe once had bad J lieen the center of a natural wealth al roost most inconceivable ast areas arms of white and yellow and reddi reddish h clay mountains wame beamed dand and gashed and cut in twain main allies miles of rusty and disjointed gigantic iron pipes pipe told of the days when tho miners with hydraulic guns held up nature and forced it to belh decher er its treas um but all that was long ago and la is only a pleasant memory with the little town now nom and to the stranger a 8 not ral inquiry as to bow how the people support ed themselves came the cheerful and cannibalistic reply that they lived on one another the stranger sat on a box outside one of the stores beside one of 0 the citizens and soon found himself li listening stonington to a monologue offered for his entertain ment it would woo have been a dialogue be tween them but the entertainer would not have it that way an old man with grizzled beard and weather beaten face was ha be the stranger noticed with surprise that although stained andrusky and rusty bis his long frock coat and the trousers stuck into his loots boots were of good broadcloth A very conspicuous watch chain a huge diamond pin pla in a netting setting of tobacco stained shirt front and und the entire absence of a collar made dp up a somewhat incongruous appearance yes you re right began the enter tamer starting the monologue with considerable energy this town am sin t worth a whoop in hell today but you oughter aughter seen it am t a forty amer myself and you got to make a good deal ot of allowance for what some 0 those these has leans tell you but they all do say it was a hummer before they stopped you oughter aughter get old nuggets to tell you sont eo methin ethin about it am ain t you met Nuggets yet well nell yon should for he s about the only sight eight we got in to town tonn nn only thing the town brags about and add pints pint sout out to strangers na nuggets nuggets NN was as here bere or som rom erg about here before they ever did any when everything was placer and sluice minin he ile 11 tell yon you his story he ile 11 tell it without bein ast I 1 ve heard it so often that I 1 know it myself he likes to bear himself talk lie he was one 0 the first to come accost the plains leastways that a what he says eay sand and when he got here he just nache rally staid he kern lem around by the old emigrant trail back 0 lake tahoe and into Hang town Hang town you know that a 8 what they called placerville Placer erville vUle in them days was a great place then meals was 3 and so was beds whisky was tour four bits and two bits a drink ac cordin as how bow you wanted it and flour floor was 10 for a email small rack fack course yon you know most al all I 1 supplies kern kem around the horn to frisco was boated up to sacramento and team fd out to the mines from there business was good in california in them days most every one had money and it wa sn t no trick to get it the cricks and end nver river bottoms was full 0 gold and any one could take a shovel pick and rocker and wash out aa much as he be liked course hat sort 0 thing spoilt the argonauts as they call un cra or a good many of em anyhow A spoilt mos moat any one kinder seemed to them that the supply would last forever and they dian t worry much and wasa t partick ler about savin it il they was all sit about alike and after a fellow had worked bard hard for awhile and cleaned up a little pile he d get to chinkin he needed relaxation and down he d go to fria frisco oo 00 and blow in hia his pile then he d strike the trail tor for the goldfields gold fields for another stack 0 blae blue chips course every one had a partner in them days and this here nuggets had one by the name 0 wilkins one day they kem into this town with a nugget that was a wag was as bin bril as your hat red cinnabar with chunks of pure pad old out of it all around the jeweler offered em ent ft JI tor for it but they t sell it nug gets said mid there was more 0 it where it kem from but no one bell eved him everybody thought that nuggets and nit had found a email small pocket and that was all there was to it but some wine 0 ethehe pockets are good enough ellough tor for a pore pure man anyhow that night there wag was an awful windstorm and two days afterward aft nuggets was found comin comia out 0 rattle anake cantou over there didium crazy they brought um into town and all they could get out 0 him was a string 0 the d dest words you ever heard of ho he dian t say ranch much else for a good many years afterward youster sit around the town here and betit att it oft off to himself went no mo methin like this changed all the trees in the kat tle snake moved em eta and mixed cm em nil Z pit might a been a dream but I 1 don I 1 ask bill he knows fat a A alt leg 4 khok 14 li bw her soon scon rock in in time but no rook rock like me that bill d d old fool foo gits scared seared and aua wo we kholod her up to come buck back ta to didn t blazona blaze no im tret but my old knife a 8 qu the moss fide side 0 that tree might a hieu hi ix eu cn a iresom j ask bill course you call aux bk bit t your life th it old cannou N w as prospected I 1 ratty well alter after that but bothin she I 1 ho specimen was bold sold and the money div i I 1 ed od between lill wilkins and nuggets daughter N ito had to tike take caro care 0 hini him went over into cala calan eras soon after that and fell down a shaft about BOO feit fett deep well time went by and the law stopped and much every one left the town that could git out 0 it and it am sin t ben worth a d a bonce nuggets daughter she married bob N who he was as a teamster and dida t have much 0 it t to do either they was pore bu but t they managed to make a liv in and keep oil nuggets besides course you know the old man couldn coulden t do bothin but sit around and talk those worda words I 1 told you of EN everyone ery one was kind to him except perhaps jake Open kopenheimer heimer who kept the principal store then he youster alo him a good deal and josh him and as ask him when hen he was A as gom goin to open her up but I 1 reckon he didn t mean a great deal 0 barm harin avery now and then N nuggets ISug gota ud wander over into rattlesnake canon can on and spen I 1 nigh on to a day there them when he d come bak lie be d bo be worse tuk than ever and go around and ayin those words changed all the trees in the rattlesnake moved em ent and mixed em all up might a been a dream but I 1 don t think so bout this time his little gran grau aou son was grow in up be began ganfor for to take tale him along with him in his trips to the cana can on mrs she objected at firby but when she seen the boy liked to go and her father waa was dead set on hav daviu in him with him she dian didn t make no more objections the boy used to say that N while hile they was as in the canyon nug gets spent most 0 his f tuno uno huntin for something he coulta couldn t find one in the summer time boot bout ten years ago I 1 was her bm then myself nuggets and the boy kem kern into town and gave it ft a surprise that it am sin t got over sence rence I 1 lion ou can believe it or not as you m want ant to but bed be d got back his mind all right and talked as sensibly as I 1 in now don t beheye tx cievo he ever was as crazy myself just think ha he d got his mud mind set on one thing and coulden t get it off but be he was near crazy with happiness lie ile d an old rusty knife in his hand and be kept sayin to us all tha the tuna time dwarn t no dream after all dwarn t no dream t seems when they was in the canyon the boy got to around and crawled under a big tree that ad been blown down and found the knife in it underneath course you know what that meant well nuggets is all right now so was his claim he ile sold it for a nice n ice sum sent to a couple 0 big mining men down below see those smokestacks smoke stacks in the trees oner in the canyon well there a a 14 stamp mill on the spot where that knife N wag as found bob hittel runs this store we were ro a in trout of and bob 9 wife 0 owns ns her own house nuggets has a mort gago gap on about everything jake jale 0 open pell heimers 8 got left idt and the boy tha the gran son you know he be a 8 down below in for himself that a s about tho the story old nuggets 11 tell you whon you meet him sonic 0 it a true I 1 know myself for fora a fact facts and I 1 reckon bobbo some someo 0 its it a well you yon know nuggets is a missourian and a good liar himself bun self the stranger arose stitched elied himself and striding up the street encountered the ons one legged druggist standing in the doorway of his store great story I 1 just beard heard said the stranger I 1 been talking to the old pioneer pioneer why he a not a forty niner no but be he is a forty eighter who is he be anyhow alim oh that 9 nuggets 1 liam linni A in argonaut |