[Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis]@TWC D-Link bookDanny's Own Story CHAPTER V 8/16
And then he shut up, and didn't say nothing fur a hull hour, except oncet he laughed. Fur Doctor Kirby, he says, winking at me: "Looey, here, is a nihilist." "Is he," says I, "what's that ?" And the doctor tells me about how they blow up dukes and czars and them foreign high-mucky-mucks with dynamite. Which is when Looey laughed. Well, we jogged along at a pretty good gait fur several hours, and we stayed that night at a Swede's place, which the doctor paid him fur everything in medicine, only it took a 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, and took in considerable money.
We stayed there three days and bought a tent and a sheet-iron stove and some skillets and things and some provisions, and a suit of duds for me. Well, we went on, and we kept going on, and they was bully times.
We'd ease up careful toward a town, and pick us out a place on the edge, where the hosses could graze along the side of the road; and most ginerally by a piece of woods not fur from that town, and nigh a crick, if we could.
Then we'd set up our tent.
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