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not only their mouths, but their pocketbooks, and every 

 one, to their credit be it said, lost his appetite, and 

 although nothing was said, no one wanted any supper at 

 all, and the miserable fellow's stock in trade was left ail 

 on hand except what the driver ate,andthat was free, for 

 the drivers share with the stablemen in the profits de- 

 rived from feeding the passengers. Well, when all was 

 ready to proceed on our journey, the driver showed his 

 colors by ordering all the passengers inside the stage. 

 Six people could be crowded inside, but as there was a 

 woman and one of the passengers had a boil which made 

 it almost impossible for him to bear the crowding, two of 

 the passengers had ridden outside with the driver ; but 

 the driver was angry because there was no profit and re- 

 solved to make the passengers suffer for it. He belonged 

 to the same class as the stableman, and the passengers 

 all proceeded to get in the stage, but one who had ridden 

 inside got out, and speaking quietly and cheerfully to 

 the driver, said, "Ithinkl'llride with you anyway." The 

 driver seemed surprised and looked although not daggers, 

 yet pistols surely ; but the little man looked childlike 

 and bland, and at once mounted the seat. The eyes of 

 the two met, the driver quailed, and not a word more was 

 said until the stage started, and the driver tried to take 

 all the room possible for himself ; then the passenger 

 said, "Being you have not much mail or express under 

 the seat, a good bed can be rigged up and I will turn in 

 and be out of your way entirely and have a good sleep 

 until morning," and it was so, and all went quietly along 

 without a word of complaint or anger for the rest of the 

 journey. Such events are living sermons that never fail 

 to show up the real characters of men stripped bare of 

 all conventionalities. 



The story of a wealthy ranchman which I also heard 

 during my Arizona trip, will show another phase of min- 

 ing character and one of the tricks often played upon the 



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