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Updated: May 8, 2025
This here camp is maybe four miles across the divide from Iowa Hill, and it sure is named a cu-roos name, which it is Why-not. They is a barn contiguous, where the mine horses are kep', and, blame me! if there ain't a weathercock on top of that same a golden trotting-horse upside down.
When the stranger an' pilgrim comes in, says he first off: 'Why'n snakes they got that weathercock horse upside down why? says he. 'Why-not, says you, and the drinks is on the pilgrim. "That all went very lovely till some gesabe opens up a placer drift on the far side the divide, starts a rival camp, an' names her Because.
The Boss gets mad at that, and rights up the weathercock, and renames the camp Ophir, and you don't work no more pilgrims. "Well, as I was saying, Cock-eye drifts into Why-not and begins diffusing trouble. He skins some of the boys in the hotel over in town, and a big row comes of it, and one of the bed-rock cleaners cuts loose with both guns. Nobody hurt but a quarter-breed, who loses a' eye.
"We left Why-not afore daybreak, an' worked over into the canon about sun-up. They was one big pool we hadn't covered for some time, an' we made out we'd watch that. So we worked down to it, an' clumb up into our trees, an' set out to keep guard. "In about an hour we heard a shoot some mile or so up the creek.
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