The unusual article Valentine suggested could be hid in the stranger's cap, which would be an unlikely place to look for it.

Charley was then called in, and he experienced some difficulty in getting his mental apparatus in working order. He maneuverated about, and reached up his arms, for a while, and finally, when it was in the right position, he said : "Well, whatever it is, I have a feeling that it is right here." His hand went down with a slap upon the tenderfoot's head and smashed the egg. The smeared and indignant man, was finally coaxed into good humor, with the perfect understanding that he was now a full-fledged westerner, and at liberty to practice on any stranger that might happen along.

King and Nelson have both left this land, the former on the "long, long trail." and Nelson to Cuba, which has not yet adopted the single standard of water, with nothing above two and one-half per cent alcohol. He says it is asking too much of one of the old boys who used to take it straight, to drink forty gallons of water to get one of "licker." His stay in Cuba will not be permanent, for Nelson has been too long in western Nebraska to part with it forever.

GORDON'S AND WHITEHEAD'S RANCHES -- YODER'S BEGINNING AND EX- PANSION -- NEW DEVELOPMENT IN GOSHEN HOLES -- BE- GINNING OF ALFALFA AND SUGAR BEETS

On our first trip up Horse creek in the eighties, we stopped at the Gordon ranch, in company with George Whitehead. Gordon was .'in active Scotchman and had built an irrigation plant. He, in one place, had made a tunnel through a hill, as I remember it quite a long distance, and large enough to work a team in.