CHAPTER XXV 



WE GO ON A LOAFING TOUR 



When my brother and I made up our minds to 

 leave Idaho, we had no particular goal in view; 

 we were still tramps. 



Arriving in Cheyenne we decided to take things 

 a bit easy again for a time ; we had a few dollars 

 in our pockets now and we had just enough 

 "hook-worm disease" to keep from exerting our- 

 selves as long as our money lasted. 



We took in the sights around the neighborhood 

 of Cheyenne, and then we took a run down to 

 Denver. In Denver we spent nearly a week, 

 living a life of ease and contentment on the 

 mony we had made in Idaho. 



We had a few hundred dollars left when we 

 finished our stay in Denver, which we exchanged 

 for Travelers' Cheques before leaving. These 

 checks are as acceptable as cash in most places 

 and they are safer than cash because the owner 

 must endorse them properly before negotiating 

 them. 



When we had seen all there was to be seen in 

 and around Denver, we bought tickets for 

 Omaha, Nebraska, where we put in another week 

 or so of easy life. 



Towards the end of our stay in Omaha we had 

 to go a little easy on our expense account because 

 it was about used up. Not until we had only 

 about thirty dollars left did we begin to give con- 



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