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"My ‘stage coach‘ was this burro ‘Prunes‘, a perfect pet in the town, who travelled across that sidewalk and sang his ‘Rocky Canary‘ song at the farther end of the walk. Later in the day the superintendent pointed out to me ‘My Stage Coach‘â€"‘Prunes‘ I never heard the word ‘burro‘ withâ€" out recalling the following story:â€" which appeared during my .stay in Colorado in the "Fairplay Flume"â€" the Park County weekly paper. "A St. Louis man on a business trip to Leadville purchased a burro for his little son and expressed it to St. Louis. what been! "In the morning following, the county superintendent â€" (a perfect wag), called at the hotel to walk over io the school with brother and myâ€" self. ‘On the way over I told of my experience of the previous night, beâ€" ing awakened by the stage coach‘s arâ€" rival and horn blowing! The superâ€" intendent drevw me out and then how those two men did laugh at me! Oh what a "tenderfoot" I must have "My rocm was on the first floor, adjoining the parlor. I was awakened several times during the night by a noise that I suposed was the stage cogeh arriving and a horn being blown to announce its arrival. This was n natural supposition as Fairâ€" play had, at that time, no railroad connections. Everything had to be transported cither by wagon or on horse back. "After making the 40 mile trip to "Fairplay" the county seat of Park county, a placerâ€"mining town, twice for the teachers‘ examination for a yearly certificate, I went a third time to pass the examination for the state certificate. Fairplay‘s only hotel was a large twoâ€"story log building with a porch extending along the front of the building. The porch consisted of a roof and upright posts, the floor of the porch forming the sidewalk on the street. As the school board in that vicinity could find no teacher for their little district school, I volunteered to teach their school. As I had had no trainâ€" ing for the work I may quote a politiâ€" cal speaker here in Highland Park who said, "I taught school, it was tough on the school, but I had to get a living."!! So I had to earn in order to be selfsupporting, having taken up government land. The grave will be dug midway beâ€" tween Alma and Fairplay. There is a mountsin legend that burros never die. . Sixtyâ€"two years Prunes has struggled to keep alive this tradition, ‘but fact will prevail rather than ficâ€" tion, and the end is near for the most ancient of the Park county burros. Miss O‘Brien‘s Letter "I have an amusing memory of ‘Prunes‘ the 62â€"yearâ€"old burro menâ€" tioned in the above article. Years ago when ‘Prunes‘ was in his prime I spent the greater part of four years in Park county, Colorado on my brother‘s ranch, at the mouth of the "Eleven Mile Canyon." (Continued from page 5) ing the Dolly Varden, Mosquita, Home Sweet Home, Buckskin, and many other mines of Park county." H. P. 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