The Road to Dumbiedykes 



And now I got him." And he grinned 

 as he reflected upon what he merely 

 considered convincing evidence of 

 good markmanship such as should be 

 valued by an appreciative employer. 



I will lay a wager now that this 

 fellow hasn't figured out yet why he 

 was not retained to watch over our 

 slumbers, and has not yet recovered 

 his equanimity at being discharged 

 upon the spot as an impossible "fat- 

 head." 



These experiences of the cow with 

 the cough, a window-shade running 

 wild in the middle of the night, and a 

 watchman with no targets but inno- 

 cent owls in the trees, afi"orded about 

 all the evidence necessary to establish 

 our complete confidence in our further 

 security. So we began then and there 

 to laugh at fears, and put on flesh; and 

 now we no longer lie awake or get up 

 and seek the cause of any disturbance 

 whatsoever between the sunset and 

 the morn. 



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