Blamed if he warn't the horriblest looking outrage I ever see.

Then the duke took and wrote out a sign on a shingle so: Sick Arab--but harmless when not out of his head.
And he nailed that shingle to a lath, and stood the lath up four or five foot in front of the wigwam.

Jim was satisfied.

He said it was a sight better than lying tied a couple of years every day, and trembling all over every time there was a sound.

The duke told him to make himself free and easy, and if anybody ever come meddling around, he must hop out of the wigwam, and carry on a little, and fetch a howl or two like a wild beast, and he reckoned they would light out and leave him alone.