ve no success in life, and no amount of whaling could change it, though Hank, he was faithful. Before I was twe

shoes and stockings part of the time, even in the summer, and some of 'em had to ast to go in swimming, and the hull thing was a continuous trouble and privation to 'em. But they wasn't nothing perdicted of me, and I done like it was perdicted. Everybody 'lowed from the start that Hank would of made trash out'n me, even if I hadn't showed all the signs of being

feel kind o' bad sometimes. It ain't so handy then.

what do

, "Nothing,"

, you get o

'n worter millions and mush millions and such truck, and mebby now and then a chicken us kids use to roast i

right smart of handiness with tools around that there shop of his'n, and if he'd ever of used me right I might of turned into a purty fair blacksmith. But it wasn'

r done more'n Hank made you do. Mebby you orter stick to work a

ne and mebby more. But it wasn't no use. One day when I'm about eighteen, I seen awful plain

rcus this afternoon

hearn,"

oing to it

t see as it's no consarns of yourn, nohow." I knowed

hey wasn't no harm

asted, ain't y

"I'd like to go to tha

to go," says Hank, "fur you would go anyhow.

ys, "and I was going to ast you

tter of you crawling in under the tent like you always done? First thing I kn

end money on besides jest the circus herself. They is the side show, fur instance, and they is the gr

'n' lot, or a million dollars, or something like

r two, three years now. If you wasn't loafing so much you'd a not

k. "You ain't wuth nothing but to

a good 'eal more. And as fur as clothes goes, I

you up?"

d by your own say-so you d

you jest let me hear of you even going nigh that circus lot and all the lammings you has ever got, rolled into one, won't be a measly little sarcumstance to what you WILL get. They ain't no leather-faced young upstar

dn't of took me in the Alexanderses would of, and then I wouldn't

ol, I notice," says Hank, with a snort. "This is t

anted to go till lately, but he'd of lammed me if I had of wanted

irst person I seen was Hank. Of course he seen me, and he shook his fist at me in a promising kind of way, and they wasn't no trouble figgering out what he meant. Fur a while I didn't enjoy that circus to no extent. Fur

of the shop fur Elmira to holler vittles is ready, and Hank come along. He didn

e and take of

. I run in on him, and he dropped the strap and fetched me an openhanded smack plumb on the mouth that jarred my head back and

time. I got him by the ears and I slammed his head into the gravel a few times, him a-reaching fur my throat, and a-pounding me with his fists, but me a-taking the licks and keeping holt. And I had a mighty contented time fur a few minutes there on top of Hank, chuckling to myself, and batting him one every now and then fur luck, and trying to make him holler it's enough. But Hank is

y drug me off'n him. Hank, he gets up, and then he sets down sudden on a horse block an

white linen duster, and has a beautiful red beard. In the road they is a big stout road wagon, with a canopy top over it, pulled by two hosses,

EDICINAL SPECIFIC. DISCOVERED BY DR. HARTL

wagon come along the road and stop. The big man in the plug h

mauling the

, "he needed i

emn, "the good book says to ho

on't. But HE ain't my father, nohow. And he a

" the big man remarks, very serious

e, the sooner you have druv on, the better

answers, and he wrinkles up his face like he never seen anything like

shady che

e blacksmi

a pleasan

s upon hi

poetry at him. Hank fidgets and turns his eyes away. But the feller

nd keeps a-holt of Hank's eyes with his'n. "You behold before you the discoverer, manufacturer, and proprietor of Siwash Indian Sagraw, nature's own remedy for Bright's Disease, rheumat

nearer and nearer to him, jest natcherally bully-ragging

nd he brings his hand down hard

plumb full of Scripter quotations. And he sings out sudden, giving Hank a shove that nearly pushes him over: "Man alive!" he yells, "you DON'T KNOW what di

, but that doctor won't let his eyes wi

ut your

sticks

outh like he was going to say something, and shuts it agin like his feelings won't let him. He puts his arm across Hank's

yes when I first drove up. I hope," he says

icked him so easy. Any one could of told from that doctor's actions Hank was

tor, and I hain't never had a sick day

eller with him: "Looey, brin

r taking his eyes off'n Hank. H

nd, and there is a good chance for even you. I g

ave I got?"

gitis," says the docto

ere cure me?

NYTHING," say

t them fellers had stopped at our place fur was to have the shoe of the nigh hoss's off hind foot nailed on, which i

was, and one of them long Prince Alferd coats nearly to his knees, and shiny shoes, but his vest was cut out holler fur to show his biled shirt, and it was the pinkest shirt I ever see, and in the middle of that they

ter of looked closeter. Fur I'll be dad-binged if he weren't an Injun! There he set, under that there gasoline lamp the wagon was all lit up with, with moccasins on, and beads and shells all over

s mostly boys. Then him and the Injun picked up some banjoes and sung a comic song out loud and clear. And they was another dozen or so come. And they sung another song, and Pop Wilkins, he closed up the post-office and come over and the other two veterans of the Grand Army of the Republ

gone to the circus agin to-night." And a

d they all laughed 'cause he called m

h him and he was carried off, and the hoss was going at a dead run, and the blood was running down onto the ground. And the wolves smelt the blood and took out after him, yipping and yowling something frightful to hear, and the hoss he kicked out behind and killed the head wolf and the others stopped to eat him up, and while they was eating him the hoss gained a quarter of a mile. But they et him up and they was gaining agin, fur

or you with Siwash Injun Sagraw, which

off the rolls of the tribe and buried in disgrace upon the plains of Oregon. And the doctor was made a blood brother of the chief, and learnt the secret of that medicine.

edicine that has been kept secret fur thousands and thousand

uld of made all the money he wanted being a doctor in the reg'lar way. But what he wante

fools going around and thinking they is well men, talking and laughing and marrying and giving in to marriage right on the edge of the grave. He sees dozens of 'em in every town he comes to. But they can't fool him, he says. He can tell at a glance who's got Bright's Disease in their kidneys and who ain't. His own father, he says, was deathly sick fur years and years and never knowed it, and the knowl

ans and digestive ornaments and things. They was red and blue, like each organ's own disease had turned it, and some of 'em was yaller. And they was a long str

ut the doc, he kep' looking right at me every now and th

pains in your legs? Do your eyes blur when you look at the sun? Are your teeth coated? Does your hair come out when you comb it? Is your breath short when you walk up stairs? Do your feet swell in warm weather? Are there white spots on your finger nails? Do you draw your breath part of the time through one nos

ing of symptoms, and I had them, too. Seems to me I had purty nigh everything but fits. Kidney complaint and consumption both had a holt on me. It was about a even bet which would get me first. I kind o' got to wondering which. I figgered from what he said that I'd had consumption the LONGEST while,

But they didn't sell much. All the people what had any money was to the circus agin