New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . re actually cut-ting slices out of the hill, as does paterfamilias out of the Christmas plum-pudding. A very kind and hospitable lady, proud of the Colorado town whichhad the good fortune to claim her as a resident, asked the Colonel, wnthgreat courtesy, if he had prepared accurate descriptions of certain streetsand buildings, and on his reluctantly confessing that want of space, etc.,rather petulantly remarked: Now I really believe that you w^ill only tellabout the funny side of things, and that isnt fair. GRUB-STAKES AND MILLIONS. 91 Filled with compunct
New Colorado and the Santa Fé trail . re actually cut-ting slices out of the hill, as does paterfamilias out of the Christmas plum-pudding. A very kind and hospitable lady, proud of the Colorado town whichhad the good fortune to claim her as a resident, asked the Colonel, wnthgreat courtesy, if he had prepared accurate descriptions of certain streetsand buildings, and on his reluctantly confessing that want of space, etc.,rather petulantly remarked: Now I really believe that you w^ill only tellabout the funny side of things, and that isnt fair. GRUB-STAKES AND MILLIONS. 91 Filled with compunction, tlie Colonel began a course of reading in thepapers of the place; and having insensibly imbibed a measure of theirstyle, he tried to write about Silver Cliff in a manner different from theforegoing, and something as follows: This live town contains at least eight thousand inhabitants, and isbound to see that figure and go some thousands better within six esteemed friend the Hon. Charles Bunker, who has recently estab-. i;. cisaiir i!. SUNDAY EVKXING AT THE VARIETIKS. lished an excellent peanut stand in our city, reports that people are flock-ing to us from the effete Denver and the upstart Leadville. Charleyspeanuts cant be beat. The Hon. Zechariah Fettyplace, Member of the State Legislature ofIndiana, from the flourishing town of Sandy Plains, and Pelatiah Petten-gill, Esq., a prominent undertaker and capitalist of the same place, show a 1)2 NEW C0I.()1:AI)() A\I) the SANTA FE TRAIL. preference for the tootlipicks of the Oriental. These representative i^en-tlemen declare tliat New York is phiyed out, compared with this ])hi( need just such citizens as these, and trust that they may he induced tocast in their lot with this maf2:nificent camp. The j2;enial Pete Starkweather, who so efHciently assists Aleck Smitli-ers in mi\inf>; drmks at the Honest Miners Home, has, we are glad toliear, struck it rich on a lead adjoining the Roaring Cowpuncher andMar
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