JIMVILLE 



you ; you shall blow out this bubble from 

 your own breath. 



You could never get into any proper re- 

 lation to Jimville unless you could slough 

 off and swallow your acquired prejudices 

 as a lizard does his skin. Once wanting 

 some womanly attentions, the stage-driver 

 assured me I might have them at the Nine- 

 Mile House from the lady barkeeper. The 

 phrase tickled all my after-dinner-coffee 

 sense of humor into an anticipation of 

 Poker Flat. The stage-driver proved him- 

 self really, right, though you are not to sup- 

 pose from this that Jimville had no conven- 

 tions and no caste. They work out these 

 things in the personal equation largely. 

 Almost every latitude of behavior is al- 

 lowed a good fellow, one no liar, a free 

 spender, and a backer of his friends' quar- 

 rels. You are respected in as much 



