to the schoolhouse, and b

nd then turn west, Doctor Kirby," I says, "so a

Rube?" h

they'll foller us east; so don't we want to

d likely be ketched up with and took back and hung or something, anyhow. L

t get this property by due process of law. THEY aren't going to take the case into a county court

law'n I do," I says. "I kind o' t

there'll be the deuce to pay. But they aren't going to make any more trouble. I know

fur I never been of the opinion that g

things seem more legal, I suppose-and the doctor was plumb tickled, and Looey felt as cheerful as he ever felt about anything. So t

tels from now on. They've got the last cent they

ooey asts him, like he hasn't

hinking it all over." Then he turns to me

c'ler except away from that town we just left. W

what?"

says I, "

ays he, "how would you

" asts I,

ooey,"

e his'n would suit me down to the ground, and asts him what is

ve money and we'll be near the throbbing heart of nature. And an Indian camp in each place will be a good advertisement for the Sagraw. You can look after the horses and learn to do the cooking and that kind o' thing.

I, "I'd like

is learn how to sell corn salve. Any one that can sell corn salve can sell anything. There's a farmhouse right over there, and I'll gi

t sizes, but barring that they all looked about the same to me. Whilst I

y?" I asts him. Fur they was blue lab

. "Can't you read the labe

uch of a reader when it comes t

spelled only on

ter be able to pick out a common, ordinary th

n't mean to tell me you c

you nothing

s out a

so fast, what's

't corn salve. And it ain't natcheral he will pick corn salve, fur he would thi

easy reading. That is Siw

"And Great Scott! They call

mad-like. Fur I was feeling bad Doctor K

ll the same, I'm going to take your education in hand and make you

d they wasn't much use in anything, without you had a lot o' money. And they wasn't no chancet to get that with all these here trusts around gobbling up everything and stomping the poor man into the dirt, and they was lots of times he wisht he was a

ys, winking at me: "Loo

bout how they blow up dukes and czars and them foreign hi

long time to make the bargain, fur them Swedes is always careful not to get cheated, and hasn't many diseases. And the next night we showed in a little town, and done right well

After we had everything fixed, I'd put on my Injun clothes and Looey his'n, and we'd drive through the main store street of the town at a purty good lick, me a-holt of the reins, and the doctor all togged out in his best clothes, and Looey doing a Injun dance in the midst of the wagon. I'd pull up the hosses sudde

well, fur when night come every one would be on hand. Looey and me, every time we went into town, had on our Injun suits, and the doctor, he wondered why he hadn't never thought up that scheme before. Sometimes, when they was lots of people ailing in a town, and they hadn't been no show fur

g that has ever been wrote. He had lots of books with him and every time a new sockdologer of a word come along and I learnt how to spell her and where she orter fit in to make sense it kind o' tickled me all over. And many's the time afterward, when me a

hard, and they was plenty of vittles. Afternoons we'd lazy around the camp and swap stories and make medicine if we needed a batch, an

don't leak, that rain is a kind of a nice thing to listen to itself. But if you can see the stars you get to wondering more'n ever. They come out and they is so many of them and they are so fur away, and yet they are so kind o' friendly-like, too, if you happen to be feeling purty good. But if you ain't feeling purty good, jest lay there and look at them stars long enough; and then mebby you'll see it don't make no difference whether you're feeling good or not, fur they got a way o' making your private troubles look mighty small. And you get to wondering why that is, too, fur they ain't human; and it don't stand to reason you orter pay no attention to them, one way nor the other. They is jest there, like trees and cricks and hills. But I have often noticed that the things that is jest there has got a way of seeming more friendly than the things that has been built and put there. You can look at a big iron bridge or a grain elevator or a canal all

being with a show, too. Many's the time I have went down the street in that there Injun suit, and seen how the yo

That's one of th

e trees from us they was a house with a hedge fence all around it. They was apple trees and all kind of flower bushes and things inside of the hedge. The second day we was there I takes a walk back through the wood-

t have asked for