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tried him at everything 'cept 'coons, end as he's no 'count 

 fur anything else; I says he's a fus'rate 'coon dorg ; end as 

 thare's plenty uv 'em whar' yeou air going tew, yeou kin 

 have him fur a dollar." 



Down came the money on the counter, with " He is my 

 dog," and to my waggon- master, " Tie him up." 



The station-keeper stared hard at me and said : " I were 

 only a joken 'bout the dollar, I'd have given yeou the purp 

 fur the taking uv him away ; he ain't worth, his feed, nohow. 

 However, a trade's a trade. But lookee here, stranger, yeou 

 snapped me up so keen, 'pears to me yeou were arter him 

 all the time ; neow, no offence, I don't mean tew be personal, 

 but air yeou a d d fool, or am I ? " 



With difficulty I repressed a smile, and told him what the 

 dog was good for, his pedigree, and that when " trained " 

 it was no use to say "broken" to him he would be worth 

 fifty dollars at least. 



The station-keeper brought his fist down on the counter 

 with a bang that made the glasses jump, and exclaimed, 



" By , I'm the d d fool, and it's my treat round. 



Boys, what ul yeou pisen yerselves with ? " 



Poor fellow ! it was doubtless the last dog trade ever 

 made by him. Not many days after I left his station the 

 great Sioux and Cheyenne outbreak occurred. In one night, 

 without warning, for a distance of three hundred miles, every 

 road station but two on the Platte and Big Blue rivers 

 were rushed and captured by them, and, except some few 

 almost miraculous escapes, -their inmates massacred men, 

 women, and children, even babes. Why my train was not 

 attacked during that raid I shall never know. Possibly 



