76 THE COUXTKY BOY 



" Homer, I guess we can't sell him." 



At that DufF leaped high in the air, bumped 

 father's hat off his head, caught it in the air 

 and ran frisking about the boat with it. 



No, he couldn't be sold ; there was something 

 in Duff that showed in his eyes and prohibited 

 a price. 



The Silverton Appeal was the one newspaper 

 in Silverton. It was a weekly, that the editor 

 told me might some time be changed to a daily, 

 if the town ever responded to its encourage- 

 ment ; but the town didn't respond, so that the 

 Silverton Appeal is still a weekly. For a time 

 it got to look like it would be a monthly. The 

 editor always set type and smoked long 

 stem pipes ; with big shears he culled from every 

 other paper. Lots of times he took cord wood 

 for subscriptions, and, after that system had 

 been inaugurated for a few years, he ran a 

 wood yard in connection with the Silverton 

 Appeal. 



The Appeal was unique in its way; there 

 was an individuality about the paper that one 

 would know it was published in Silverton and 

 nowhere else. The editor was about as smart 

 as any man in town, but once in a while he 



