And, not to antagonise the reader, 
I will say now that it was very naughty 
to do what I did, an impolite and un- 
generous thing to do, on a par with 
the making up of slumming parties to 
pry into the secrets of the poor. It 
was the act of a vandal, and at times— 
in the gray dawn and on the first day 
of January —I am sorry about it; but 
then I should not have had that carved 
bead armlet, and as that is the tail of 
my story, I will put it in the mouth 
and properly begin. 
Nimrod and I went to the United 
States agency for the Asrapako or 
Raven Indians in — well, never mind, 
not such a tar cry from the Rockies, 
unless you are one of those uncomfort- 
able persons who carry a map of the 
United States in your mind’s eye — be- 
cause Burfield was there painting Many 
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