fine, Uncle John would tie a towel and 

 a clean shirt to his saddle, throw one 

 leg across the back of Jim, his cow 

 pony, blind in one eye and weighted 

 with years unknown, and the two would 

 jog a mile or so back in the moun- 

 tains, to a hot sulphur spring, where 

 Yeddar would perform his weekly toilet. 

 He was not known to take off his 

 clothes at any other time, and if the 

 weather were disagreeable the pilgrim- 

 age was omitted. 



The cheapest thing at Yeddar's, ex- 

 cept time, was advice. You could not 

 tie up a dog without the entire estab- 

 lishment of loafers bossing the job. A 

 little active co-operation was not so easy 

 to get, however. One day I watched 

 a freighter get stuck in the mud down 

 the road k a piece.' One by one, the 

 whole number of freighters, moun- 



