I seen right off I was to be the Patagonian Chieftain.

I was getting more and more of an actor right along--first an Injun, then a wild Borneo, and now a Patagonian.
"But who is this Alonzo Ackerman ?" I asts him.
"Celebrated balloonist," says he, "and the man that invented parachutes.
They eat out of his hand." "Where is he ?" asts I.
"How should I know ?" he says.
"How is he going up, then ?" I asts.
The doctor chuckles and says it is a good bill, a better bill than he thought; that it is getting in its work already.

He says to me to read it careful and see if it says Alonzo Ackerman is going up.

Well, it don't.

But any one would of thought so the first look.