said lie, "I owed a man ten cents who lived eighteen 

 miles off, and he drove in one day and sat around 

 for over an hour when he said he wished I would pay 

 him that ten cents, as he had driven all the way in 

 after it, which would make the round trip thirty-six miles 

 for ten cents. ' ' He told this incident to prove the scarcity 

 of money out here. 



ON THE AMBAZUSKIS RIVER. 



Last year a lumberman who had got into financial 

 difficulties allowed three notes which I held against him 

 to go to protest. I was advised to give them to a firm of 

 lawyers in a neighboring town to collect. So I drove 

 over and found that the firm consisted of two brothers, 

 one of whom was that very day in the height of excite- 

 ment running as a candidate for a public office of a 

 responsible and honorable character. After a chase I 

 finally captured the other brother and gave him the notes 



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