JUDGE LYNCH PRONOUNCES SENTENCE The gentleman from Pike was sitting on a log, surrounded by miners, to whom he was relating his marvelous exploits.

The number of Indians, grizzly bears, and enemies generally, which, according to his account, he had overcome and made way with, was simply enormous.
Hercules was nothing to him.

It can hardly be said that his listeners credited his stories.

They had seen enough of life to be pretty good judges of human nature, and regarded them as romances which served to while away the time.
"It seems to me, my friend," said Kellogg, who, it will be remembered, had been a schoolmaster, "that you are a modern Hercules." "Who's he ?" demanded the Pike man suspiciously, for he had never heard of the gentleman referred to.
"He was a great hero of antiquity," exclaimed Kellogg, "who did many wonderful feats." "That's all right, then," said the Pike man.

"If you're friendly, then I'm friendly.