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plentiful, especially "fool chickens," a circumstance, which he did, after re
species of grouse, to which the name marking that he did not expect to be be.
was given by prospectors, because of lieved, but was not particular about that,
their stupidity in not making any effort as he knew it was a fact, and that was
to save themselves when hunted. Paro- sufficient for his satisfaction,
dy had dftcn spoken of this species of " There is a town some twenty or
grouse to his comrades, but they were twenty-five miles to the southeast of us,
not thoroughly convinced of the truth- over that high mountain, called Bonan
fulncss of what he had told them, till za. It is on the Yankee fork of the Sal.
he killed several of them with a willow mon, which we passed day before yes
pole, six or seven feet long. The " fool terday. There was an old man lived
chicken" is brown in color, about the there, who had a daughter I forget her
size of a pheasant, very plump, and name who was terribly in love with a
splendid eating, The place of abode is friend of mine, named Phillips. Well,
among the willows and aspens of marshy as I was going to say, the old man put
places. his foot down on the marriage, and I
After a day's rest on Valley creek, the concluded to help the two young ones
men felt in the best of spirits. The three out, and outwit the old man. So, one
men who had joined them on the Sal- day there was a team leaving town with
mon, having been invited to unite for- an amalgamating pan for the Vienna
tunes, or misfortunes, as Providence mill, which is about eighty miles above
might direct, in the search for the Saw- here, on Smiley creek We hid the
tooth cave, were camped with the party, couple in the pan, by covering it over
This just suited Parody, as they were with wheelbarrows and such truck, and
strangers to him, and his credulous au- the team started. Next day we reached
dience was increased by three. As usu- this place, and right out there the wa-
al, ho told many unreasonable stories in gon turned over. The traps on the pan
the most earnest manner, at times im- fell off first and rolled down that moun-
pressing upon the minds of his hearers tain, into the river, but when the pan
their truthfulness, by the strongest oaths fell it turned upside down, with the lov-
in his vocabulary. Late in the evening, ers inside, and lodged against that big
he sat for some time gazing up and rock right yonder. Of course, the driv-
down the raging Salmon, when Cornelius er and I could not help Phillips and his
Dunks asked- girl, because the pan weighed a thou-
bay, George, what makes you so sand pounds, and we didn't have any
quiet this evening ? Are you contem- crowbars to turn it over with. So we
plating the trip before us, or are you struck out for Sawtooth, a town this side
meditating over the fact that the cave is of Vienna, for help. We had to foot it,
a mystical one ? and did nofc get back m m
M said George, "I visited one o'clock the next afternoon. When we
cave myself, and it contained some rich started back, the relief party consisted
Sll h6 of Morten men, and fearing thatthe
thTfir f ? W6 n W6 br0U justic of the peace with
the first wagon road we have seen for us to rf.m
nearly three weeks." w j? ifc? J""88 ""Tf
Tl,rt mn .1 i , yellitne most singular part of the whole
toS TiltlV .t when we got back, the
to George, and urged hun to relate the yonng fellow and hia girl were aitting