Minors under Ten Years of Age not Admitted.' Jotham's customers was called, by the outsiders, 'the billiard-room gang.' "The billiard room gang wa'n't the best folks in town, I'll own right up to that.

Still, they wa'n't so turrible wicked.

Jotham never sold rum, and he'd never allow no rows in his place.

But, just the same, his saloon was reckoned a bad influence.

Young men hadn't ought to go there--most of us said that.