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Show MINING IN SAN JUAN. 205 me the pleasant information that I had to die, and I might as well eat everything I wanted. " I did, with the appetite of an alligator. " When I got on my feet again the boys would hardly have been more surprised if they had seen an Egyptian mummy rise up and walk. " In less than six months I weighed 134 pounds. I shall ever feel grateful to Ben. Eaton for my salvation. We have eaten many a good meal together since then." " I have a funny reminiscence of my last trip through that region," said Mr. Phil. Trounstine. " It was in '76. I was on business for the house. We had traveled sixty miles and had nothing.to eat. Our team was tired and we were as hungry as wolves. I told the gentleman with me to stay by the team and I would go into the mountains to kill some game for our supper. I hadn't gone far before I saw a deer, and raising my gun, brought it down. My companion complimented me on my skill until I began to think I was a crack shot. " By and by we drove up to a house and inquired if we could get supper there. " The man said he had no meat except bacon, but we were welcome to it. " We are all right in that particular, said I, for I have just killed a young deer. "' Then come in,' said he. " When he saw our deer he asked, ' whar did you git that, stranger?' " I observed the dismay in his voice, and thought something or other was wrong, but I answered promptly, 'a short distance below here.' "'Oh, Hannah, Hannah,' he called 'I told you some |
