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The next thing we run across was a show of trained horses. They had a trick mule outside to attract the crowds, and the spieler says the man, woman, or child what can stay on the mule's back one minute gets a dollar and a free ticket to the show. So we watched a few minutes and saw quite a few fellows try, and the mule threw every one before the minute was up.
My guide was not honest, indeed, few of them are, but, strangely enough, I never discovered any dishonesty in him, while he was with me. At that time, the postage on letters from that region was very high, sometimes as much as fifty or sixty cents, or even a dollar. This, of course, I always gave to the guide to use in sending the letter when he got to the trading-post.
Being down to our last dollar, we struck out into the country next morning, for the purpose of finding work upon a farm but met with very little encouragement. Most of the fields were harvested and those that were not were well supplied with "hands." But the foreman had nothing to give, and so we went on.
I'll give you a dollar if you bring him to the hotel alive." "Is he wicked?" asked the man. "Generally," answered the Doctor, whose eyes began to twinkle; "but you get hold of his picture-gallery and run for the hotel: he will follow you. I often have to manage him that way." "I'm minded to try coaxin' him in thet a-way fer a dollar.
Now Abdul Karim was only a laborer on the land, receiving no wages, merely being paid in grain and cloth sufficient for the wants of himself and family. Of money he knew nothing except by name. One day his master was so pleased with his work that he actually gave him ten "krans," equivalent to about a dollar of our money.
Presently the man turned toward her a kindly, bearded face. But she was used to the man of general good character who with little shame and no hesitation became beast before her, the free woman. "Hello, pretty!" cried he, genially. "Slept off your jag, have you?" He was putting on his coat and waistcoat. He took from the waistcoat pocket a dollar bill. "You're a peach," said he.
He inquired what I was engaged in at the present time. I opened my valise and showed him, and several others standing by, what I was selling, and polished up an office desk to show its superior qualities. He asked the price, and on being told, handed me a dollar and took two bottles, after which I sold three more bottles to different gentlemen in the office.
Sanford was a sound as a dollar!" "That's what Dr. Harper says. They're they're going to have an autopsy." "Of course. We'd never be satisfied without that. They'll find the cause that way, of course. Dear Eunice, I'm so sorry for you." "It's awful for Eunice," said Aunt Abby "the excitement and the mystery oh, Alvord, do let me tell you what I saw!" "What?" he asked, with interest.
On the contrary, our doctor was full of talk and joviality generous to a fault. A fault, indeed; for, although many years in practice in various parts of the United States, and having earned large sums of money, at the date of our expedition we found him in Saint Louis almost without a dollar, and with no great stock of patients.
"Then," said he, "you would clear seventy-five cents on my seat and a dollar on your own?" "You can see almost as well in the gallery," said Conrad. "I'll give you fifty cents, if you insist upon it." "I insist upon having my share of the money spent for a seat," said Ben, contemptuously. "You can sit where you please, of course." "You ain't very obliging," said Conrad sullenly.
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