On The Other Side Of The
Blanket-Partition Is The Kitchen Stove, Big Table, Store Shelves, A
Pile Of Saddles, &C. Mr. W - - Sleeps In A Tent Outside; Henry In A
Waggon:
He, poor man, is not at all happy, as he imagines bears and
coyotes are nightly intending making their evening meal off his portly
form.
He is the greatest coward I ever saw, and came in horror
confiding to me that he had seen a snake, yards long, which Mr. W - -
killed the day following, and it proved to be a small water-snake,
hardly ten inches.
Henry affords us a great deal of amusement; he does not at all
presume, but, in his quaint way, wishes to tell, and asks so many
things, queries which often are almost unanswerable. The day we
spent in Ouray on our way down from the cabin here, we much
distressed him by not "striking a show" in the street, and not
wearing smart clothes which had a "tong," if it were only to show
that we consider Mr. W - - a "big bug."
He left his wife in the South eleven years ago, and, in spite of
all our protestations and lectures, informs us he is going to
marry again, as in the Bible he reads "that it is wrong for man to
live alone."
It is a matter of infinite surprise to him how we can remain out
of doors with no covering to our heads, he could not stand the
rays of the sun as we do; and why our complexions in consequence
are not as dark as his is a mystery to him.
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