The Number Nine. 149 



" * If you will come with me about a mile out in 

 the country, I will introduce you to the widow 

 Sneider, now an old lady. The widow Sneider 

 will tell you that on one morning she counted 900 

 (nine hundred) wagon-loads of bullheads on their 

 way from the geyser below the dam.' " 



" Mack turned to the bottom of the boat, where the 

 three fish lay a big old hook-jaw and two small 

 ones, and picked up the smallest, rinsed him till he 

 glistened, and hung him in the air about 9 in. of 

 trout. Then a howl of derision went up and they 

 put on exhibition a string of ... 



"MR. ROBERTS I do not think the winninish 

 and land-locked salmon are the same by any means. 

 Why is it we never get the winninish any larger ? 

 We get the salmon weighing 25 Ibs., but the winni- 

 nish never weigh over 5 Ibs. 



" MR. BRACKETT I have seen them weighing 9 

 Ibs." 



" From Pueblo the report says that nine men 

 have been killed, while the operator at Rouse Junc- 

 tion places the number at five, and this is confirmed 

 by the manager of a mine at Rouse ; while Trini- 

 dad states that only one man, a Deputy Sheriff, was 

 slain. Everything favors the death of at least nine 

 men ..." 



" Our wood-sawyer Willis, whose testimony differs 

 from all others, has, notwithstanding his lack of 

 adherents, much better proof of his position, for, 



