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 ‘apiece. One by one; the 
whole number of freighters, moun- 
ei 
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