14 THE ADVENTURES OF 



it in not buying Kansas City, and also missed 

 it in buying an imaginary city. 



Disheartened at my loss I determined to 

 "go west"' again, and accordingly started out 

 with about two hundred bushels of dried fruit 

 and a lot of butter, I did not try Kansas this 

 time, but went to Denver, Colorado. From 

 Denver I went to Golden City, thence to Black 

 Hawk City, Central City and Nevada City. 



Here I sold my produce and began to cast 

 my eyes about to see what I should do. Every 

 thing and everybody seemed to be in a hurry; 

 even the mountains seemed to move, out of 

 pure sympathy with every thing about them. 



Every man I could see seemed on a rush for 

 money, and that he was getting it. Men do 

 not all dig gold and silver here to make money. 

 I noticed many engaged in occupations that no 

 man in Warrick county would at all think of 

 engaging in. Among the other queer avoca- 

 tions that are followed out here, I noticed a 

 poultry ranche. It seeined to me, at first sight, 

 that this was about as nearly nothing as any 

 business I ever heard of, but I found upon in- 



