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watched me, then hastened to help me from the 

 pole fence to the door. 



While giving them an incoherent account of 

 my experience, I fell into a stupor, and although 

 I had evidently much to say concerning drink- 

 ing and apparently showed symptoms of too 

 much drink, these old people did not think me 

 drunk. Waking from a fantastic dream I heard, 

 " Does he need any more sage tea? " The West- 

 ern pioneers have faith in sage tea and many 

 ascribe to it all the life-saving, life-extending 

 qualities usually claimed for patent medicines. 

 The following morning I was able to walk about, 

 while my slightly bloated, bronzed face did not 

 appear so badly. Altogether, I looked much 

 better than I felt. 



These good old people declared that they had 

 not seen better days, but that they were living 

 the simple life from choice. They loved the 

 peace of this isolated mountain home and the 

 companionship of the grand old peak. In the 

 Central States the wife had been a professor 

 in a State school, while the husband had been a 

 State's Attorney. 



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