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CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS . 
one ax to one tree has to be changed 
occasionally, and always in favor of the 
tree. There was a story going the rounds 
that a tramp, who had wandered into 
that country (tramps sometimes get lost 
and find themselves in Sonora just once), 
with the usual appetite of his class ap¬ 
plied for something to eat. In reply he 
was told, if he would get out a certain 
number of rails for a fence, the proprietor 
would give him a week’s board. It was, 
as he thought, about a day’s work that 
had been assigned him, and bright and 
early next morning he sallied out with his 
ax on his shoulder. Unfortunately the 
most tempting tree he met was an iron- 
wood. Very late in the evening he re¬ 
turned with the ax helve on his arm. 
“ How many rails did you split to-day?” 
was asked. “ I did not split any, but 
