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get a good assortment of relicks I want to maik 

 one suggestion to you that is in regard to geting 

 a good man and a genuine Mauntanner to take 

 charg of your haus at Chicago I want to recommend 

 a man for you to get it is Liver-eating Johnson that 

 is the naim he is generally called he is an olde 

 mauntneer and large and fine looking and one of 

 the Best Story Tellers in the country and Very 

 Polight genteel to every one he meets I wil tel you 

 how he got that naim Liver-eating in a hard Fight 

 with the Black Feet Indians thay Faught all day 

 Johnson and a few Whites Faught a large Body 

 of Indians all day after the fight Johnson cam in 

 contact with a wounded Indian and Johnson was 

 aut of ammunition and thay faught it out with thar 

 Knives and Johnson got away with the Indian and 

 in the fight cut the livver out of the Indian and 

 said to the Boys did thay want any Liver to eat 

 that is the way he got the naim of Liver-eating 

 Johnson 



"Yours truly" etc., etc. 



Frontiersmen are often as original in their 

 theories of life as in their names; and the 

 originality may take the form of wild savag- 

 ery, of mere uncouthness, or of an odd combi- 

 nation of genuine humor with simple accept- 

 ance of facts as they are. On one occasion 

 I expressed some surprise at learning that a 

 certain Mrs. P. had suddenly married, though 



