Which I couldn't read then what was wrote on the canvas, but I learnt later it said, in big print: SIWASH INDIAN SAGRAW.

NATURE'S UNIVERSAL MEDICINAL SPECIFIC.

DISCOVERED BY DR.

HARTLEY L.KIRBY AMONG THE ABORIGINES OF OREGON.
On account of being so busy, neither Hank nor me had hearn the wagon come along the road and stop.

The big man in the plug hat, he says, or they was words to that effect, jest as serious: "Why are you mauling the aged gent ?" "Well," says I, "he needed it considerable." "But," says he, still more solemn, "the good book says to honour thy father and thy mother." "Well," I says, "mebby it does and mebby it don't.