OUR
STORY.
LADIES
PLEASE
NOTE
!
duck
overalls.
and
an
A blue-checked shirt blouse his comprised
army
costume.
CONCERT.
Berenzen,
.By John
in
The
GRIFFITHS BROS,
Irish
the
Catholic).
One hot day in August, knot of United States in the sat listlessly shade word
a
tall
a
the
road, Hello,
"
boys
them
down
Jack
!
Bergh,
the'
rein,
and
soldiers
the
him bidding injunctions -many Indians. him,
little
"
CHOCOLATE where
to
look.,
Tom,"
Good-py,
" "
in
"
I'll he
or
Retail
and
And
PERTH.
PREMANTLE. at
AND
very mein
pring
dot
pugle.
started
tor
one
Jrrescott,
street.
king
and
Beware
of
CO,
Ltd.
TYRE
PNEUMATIC
DUNLOP
and sixty. Jack Bergh's the from mails Arizona Territory.
of the
sandy
white,
perth.
this
before
not
CASH
PREMIER
GROCERS
HOWICK
85 Hold
Most
'the
DELICACIES, and
TEAS
long of the Haulapais and Apaches many and had been murdered prospectors all had been burned the way-stations killed. defenders Hence and their none but a man of iron courage would but and none a man ride that road, of infinite resources -could hope to mails to and fro. carry John Bergh run for the gauntlet had successfully
FARM
and
Waited
German, native
his
in
who
had
on
a.
tired
after
the
fort,
Bergh
6 Victoria
Chambers,
spurs
for
homely
leather
and
Careful
TABLE Brands of
Delivery.
Masonic
He
CHINA, GLASS
Novelties
in
Table
Co., BOHEMIAN
FANCY
EARTHENWARE, VASES STANDS,
FLOWER
Latest
& STREET.
MURRAY
GLASS,
Perth.
St.,
&c.
Decorations,
JUGS
WATER
AND
See
our
light
a
d(
g,
discarded moccassins
boofe and and brown
National Library of Australia
to be under
seemed swarthy,
hair, grizzled wearing shirt and blue soldier His feet were bare and
His
hands
rings,
were
covered
his
gun
was
in
his
belt
and
common
knife On his
case
pouch.
an
he in
a
dark
suspended by a hung, a like brass shining object
a man white that com Nor were his was white. One of them panions taller and younger than the leader the who seemed older and other, more had his head weary from travel, tied handkerchief, up in a red cotton stained with sweat and the road dust. be some of Bergh thought they must the Hualapais that had been employed at by the officers Camp Verde, and had broken loose to join their tribe. of Click! click! went the hammer The coin Bergh's Henry. shining his mark. man who wore it The looked of stones. The at the pile straight in the coin .was .glittering sunlight rods from the Ger away only two
i.aker,
Hay
next
breast a
cord, coin.
SPECTACLE
AND
a
naked
Hall,
PERTH.
DYNON
86
cotton
Prompt
GROCERIES, Our Famous
City.
not
was
;
certain.
;
.
Prices.
through
like had
man, with
musket,
the
OPTICIAN
Clarke
JOHN
Bergh
the hot sand of the of the crossed, the spur Hualapai range, and entered the great he to reach that, mqst cross valley The mail-carrier Prescott. plodded his oh foot, carrying Henry along His rifle. patiently mustang Billy, .followed
de few steps Nearer
sidewise.
a
army parried
GENERAL
—
Alfred
Mr.
man.
river-flats,
:
nuorlftQ.
the
came.
who
known.
of in
seen
beast.
leaving
riorht
every
was
sized torn
in
one,
leader,
a
PRICES.
was
country,
they
the
was
and endurance, physical great in inventing methods .amazing facility from of escape danger. Moreover, for his he was full of consideration and thus often had a fresh mustang, "horse under him when a less, merciful have had to depend for rider would Soon wallowed
Retail)
PERTH,
New Opposite HOWICK STREET,
Address
Note
for the post of mailof sight and hearing, calm fearless watchfulness,
life
Orders:
LOWEST
fitted peculiarly rider by keenness
.his.
rnaH
again stopped
and back and
and nearer The first
<
year.
young
.steady ness,
and
for
on
;
a
thft it
pantaloons. bleeding. with brass
Stock
PRODUCE favourably
DAIRY
well
are
and
(Wholesale
STREET,
Complete and Best Assorted
COFFEES
Families
;
nearly This service
Iftft
to
pression, to look
IMPORTERS,
and
death hands
met at the
time
thftv
returned
riQp
GALLAGHER,
&
HUGHES
road.
had
mail-rider
One
he thought from three
siege
nun-
,
to carry to in point point was His journey an level stretch of desert across open, bordered like waste, by mountains, hostile from which Hualapais .and Apaches could gaze down on much '
a
.
dred
miles away. business was
a
piled
The sandy and slightly undulating road before him was straight. nearly He could have seen riders on it half a mile But the coming men away. were afoot. Bergh could see three with bareheaded, persons, crouching, in their hands gleaming gun barrels At each slight advancing warily.
Imitations.
Spurious
way. Goot-py."
nearly
and
slope, for a
Bergh
stand could Indians.
TYRES. DUNLOPS,
Genuine
get
you
said
vrendt,"
matter-of-fact
that
ammunition,
of
Speed,
and
Durability,
Comfort,
DUNLOP See
up again
the
few rocks together breastwork. There he lay concealed, with his head a view just high enough to command of the road. With a hundred rounds
RIDE
?" one."
went
loose to graze, to the top of
ADELAIDE.
CYCLISTS! For
to depend- solely in such scanty might afford.
The pair trudged on. Bergh's eyes As the plain. swept over incessantly his head rose over the crest of a slight ascent in the he suddenly road, crouched and moved stopped, low, out back a few steps to be completely of sight of the persons seen he had He removed the saddle approaching. turned the pony and pack from Billy,
:
:
SYDNEY,
MELBOURNE,
even
light
had Billy prairie grass, upon as the valley bunches
Depot
STREET,
no
for
well,
'
bo
ranch
his
Bergh,
TEA
German.
a
of Miller's the That's All right,
side
of
Rates.
STREET,
WILLIAM
Wal"Take Bergh,
replied
CUP
a
Perth Depot, be obtained
may
Warehouse
.
was
Wholesale
MURRAY
143
do' "Can I at Prescott ?" for you anydings " thank you Jack, unless Nothing, you can bring back my bugle." " Vere you leave dot pugle ?" " I left it hanging on the limb of a tree in a cottonwood grove, where we somewhere be camped one night, here and Prescott." tween dot crofe der south mean on ," You mile dis side of der roat, 'pout dirt
he
for
at
for
opt
Tom
their
at
(gratis), Parcels
Office
drew around and with
good-bye,
of
PARTAKE
Retail
group,
mail-carrier, crowded
said Jack," the tall cavalryman. of yourself," he said.
care
and
CALL
to
you
MERCHANTS,
off
Bergh's
Good-bye,
_ker,
Invite
:
Jack
"
amoiie
Here he comes." he reached the
again. When
their
pointing
spoken
was
cavalryman, said
of
Arizona.
Mohave,
& COCOA
—
Not till
Fort
at
quarters
COFFEE
TEA,
a
1866,' soldiers
little,
without its rider, bundle. In addition mails there were fastened to his master's the. saddle, rubber blanket, army overcoat, ammunition, and a bag of panola or roasted flour. This mixed with a little water last, and seasoned with was brown sugar, but he cheerfully Bergh's only food, with rather the scanty fare up put than burden Billy with extra weight. Man and mustang fared about equally pony,
carried the to
%IhiiRT .
;
&
CONSIGNMENTS
REGULAR
OF
BEST Y'SlNCOMINGrSTEAMfERS. Wholesale SILBERT & SHARP, HAY
ST.,
PERTH,
and
HANNAN
Bergh
SHARP, ALL
FRUITS
BY
QUALITY
ONLY.;
and
Retail
His the
that with
Fruiterers, '
ST.,
KALGOORLIE.
I
j
N'.B.— The trade
liberally1
dealt
with. ,
Surely medal, wearer The hand, and his
his rifle and fixed on' the
waited. coin on The coin ? breast. a coin oval is not th'at the cross the Saviour on
raised
were sights leader's
'
—
!
slowly said
companions
raised
musical
in
his
right
Spanish
to
—
BUGLE
BERGH'S
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