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20 THE MAID OF THE MOUNTAIN. the goodness to tell me what Sary Ann can possibly have to do with your being here?” “Don’t you know? Wal, wasn’t I a-tellin’ ye? Darn it, man, yew fly off the handle tew easy, I think. Stands tew reason, & man can’t tell every thing in a minnit. Yew jest keep cool and I'll tell yew all about it. Yew see, Sary Ann and me we a aedhang ar Things was pesky high, and we had hard vf along; and all the time Sary "Ann was poi arene me. a called me a poor-sperrited crit- ter, and said I hadn’t the will nor the brains to support my family.” Here Lane gave a savage. look at Elliot, who was Jangh- ing. “Wal,” continued Simpkins, “she riled me so that one day I said tew her: “¢Tf yew don’t quit peiteria’ me, darned ef I don’t go to Californy.’ “ Sez she, ‘ Yew hain’t got thes vitae, ore aT poked op Nn fal ied for San ena Ril AME wl Lae eet. “We've got so far. Don’t go back to the States till you have finished your yarn. It’s longer than a country road.” “T ain’t a-goin’ back yit,” said Simpkins. “ My idee is tew have some money before I ever see Varmount ag’in. Wal, when I got to San Francisco it was the darnedest place yew ever did see in all your days, I’ve been in a heap of places, bat I never see’d nothin’ to beat #. There's Chinamen there, the queerest critters! And the China women is wuss than the men. They called me John. Now, Jobn ain't my name. soa ~ ew betes wa'n't John. But, she wo “ Now, cau yew tell n she meant ?” nl la ate S68 sh hea Thal eee I Mae culls Rotem: kaw 138 of "em got round me, comliclooks.com