The west shore., January 01, 1887, Page 54, Image 44

THE WEST .SHORE.
probably, eter et eyes on that rude cabin was not at home, and the unbidden
brah habitation. Hi curiosity was guests were compelled to act as their
now doubled, and on his return the next own entertainers. They could find notb.
day he again paid the hut a visit, ac- ing but the bare walls of the hut, there,
rotnpanied by one of the regular resi- main9 of a fire, evidently several hourg
,.t ot Iitvn'Il. who tu al.o dir- extinct and a few crnd ntt.oil, i
oo of learning the Entity of the new as could be fashioned with a pocket
tler. He u again disappointed, for knife, from the branches of neighboring
the cabin was still drt!, although trees. Nothing whatever could be found
there were a few observable traces of to indicate the method by which the
the prince of some person in the hut mysterious builder of the 6hanty gained
lince the day before, not the least of a livelihood, except that the slender
which tu the fact that a fire was still skeletons of a few mountain trout, and
burning io freely as to indicate that it the cleanly-picked bones of birds, bore
had bn replenished within the past evidence to the fact that game consti.
half hoar. tuted a portion, at least, of his daily
When this intelligence was carried food. There was but meagre satisfac
back to camp, it created considerable tion to be gained from a contemplation
dincuMion among the frequenters of of these remains, and a general feeling
Johnson's establishment. There was of irritation at having their curiosity
nothing remarkable in the fact of some baffled deepened their already unfavor
tranger hating built a hut, for pros- able opinion of the stranger.
pM,. were continually locating and " This here is onreasonable," said Bud
houMng thenwlre. in temporary shan- Jackson, a tall Missourian, who had pre-
VL . AUAlm&Je this case the ferred rabbit hunting to grammar, in
ubjedof curKty,and even suspicion, his youthful days, "no man hain't got
were the two fads that the hut had evi- no right to live this a'way. I'm the L
dently not been extruded by a person man in the world to interfere with a
ng.mrjor camper's outfit, man's nateral rights, but this here is
i ;rrr aprf y gone a,goin f 1 -
into hjhng to aroid mating his visit- stop it"
a delegate fxom Indi-
U mjiU-riou, fersrm Z Vt u whose mcessant praises of the mud
bnuh hot whh I HLI V f 4 5 dj W8bash had for the title of
Sluice, had been rZl 7 m to hdxm to him W
-t, an,! it ,u th- . , W ?C ID the camP excePt himself and
of th crowd that If 17 JhnB0D' b his offial capacity as post.
. hut must U Xr . maStr-
or . Uha mb0 ZSSJ " I" '-d I do? I'd pull his dern'd
in .me illeriUmate ... S. ty down and stick nP notice to clar
f it .11 wu tit thT7n 0ten 111686 here diD8-"
Wfn miner. pi,itheil(lw"f 01 n her summary proceeding?" quietly
a ruit nw asked a young doctor from New York,
W'f, the ncmpt of j. who W spent two years in the mines
Grange m an unsuccessful effort to acquire rich-