46/49 The very first fellow I saw looked at me with s'picion painted all over him. But I saw it was a mighty big army. It can do a lot of rippin', an' t'arin', an' chawin'." "I got into the camp," said Obed, after a minute of silence, "but as I'm not built much like a Mexican, being eight or ten inches too tall, men were looking at me as if I were a strange specimen. One touch of difference and all the world's staring at you. So I concluded that I'd better stay on the outside of the lines. |