We-alls is
organized for a shore-'nough town, an Jack Moore is a shore-'nough
marshal, with Enright for alcalde that a-way, an' thar's a heap of
improvements.
"When I first tracks into Wolfville, cows is what you might call the
leadin' industry, with whiskey an' faro-bank on the side. But in the
days of 'Doby Dawson an' Copper Queen Billy Rudd, ore has been
onearthed, the mines is opened, an' Wolfville's swelled tremendous.
We-alls even wins a county-seat fight with Red Dog, wherein we puts
it all over that ornery hamlet; an' we shorely deals the game for
the entire region.
"As I states, it's the spring after we promotes the Bird Cage Op'ry
House--which temple of amoosements is complete the fall before--that
'Doby an' Billy turns up in Wolfville. I knows she's spring, for I'm
away workin' the round-up at the time, an' them gents is both thar
drunk when I comes in.
"'Doby an' Billy's been pards for ten years. They's miner folks, an'
'Doby tells me himse'f one day that him an' Billy has stood in on
every mine excitement from Alaska to Lower Californy. An' never once
does they get their trails crossed or have a row.
"The two gents strikes at Wolfville when the mines is first opened,
an' stakes out three claims; one for 'Doby, one for Billy.
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