. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . all of which Sal gave asimpering assent. The case was growing serious and reminded me ofa brother lawyer in the States who had business in one of the sparselysettled Northwestern counties, and being overtaken by night, put upat the first farmhouse he struck on the road. It was a log house containing two rooms and furnished in theprimitive style of the early pioneers. The family consisted of the o
. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . all of which Sal gave asimpering assent. The case was growing serious and reminded me ofa brother lawyer in the States who had business in one of the sparselysettled Northwestern counties, and being overtaken by night, put upat the first farmhouse he struck on the road. It was a log house containing two rooms and furnished in theprimitive style of the early pioneers. The family consisted of the oldman and his wife and a full-grown daughter who was slashing aroundbarefooted and had a fist like a meat ax. After gathering up thefragments of the supper and clearing the room, the old woman, whohad been looking the lawyer all over, took a seat immediately in frontof him, and without any preliminary remarks, asked: Do you wear such fine duds all the time ? All the time, madam. replied the lawyer. Is that a real diamond in your shirt? Yes, madam. And I heard you tell the old man that you had a horse andbuggy at home, besides the one youve got here? KCIIOES FROM. THE KOCKY MOUNTAINS. 347 { %;. SALS MOTHER AND THE LAWYER. Yes, that is true. And that watch andchain are real gold, arentthey ? Yes; the real as much as twohundred dollars ? More than that; overthree hundred My stars! Why, youmust get as much as fortydollars a month andboard ? she gasped. Madam, I frequentlymake fifty dollars in asingle day. Heavens! Why youmust be worth a thousanddollars ? Yes, ten times that amount. How you talk ! Some moments of silence elapsed ere she recovered from heramazement. Then she slipped softly to the corner of the house, to seeif anyone was listening to her conversation with the lawyer. Return-ing quickly, she came up close to him and lowering her voice to awhisper, said: Say, mister! Weve been saving Sally these last two years forthe boss of a saw mill four miles up
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