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Every once in a while, perhaps from a sudden heart hunger, Frank would select from a whole townful of human beings some one soul for friendship. Frank never got acquainted accidentally. He picked out his few friends deliberately and loved them openly and forever. Of course, Frank's oldest and dearest friend was Jim Tumley. People said they were born friends.

All at once the door of Taggart's store opened and they came out carrying a lot of rope and other things. Then I saw that they were not the men I had thought, after all, but a band of Sioux Indians. A Townful of Indians: with how I hide the Cow, and think of Something which I don't believe the Indians will like. When I saw what my visitors were I do not know if I was relieved or more frightened.

"You fellows make me tired," observed the stranger, dismounting. "He's got the whole townful of you bluffed to a standstill. Damn if I don't try his little game." He hung his coat on his saddle, shouldered his way through the press, which parted for him readily, and picked up the other corner of the handkerchief. "Now, you mangy son of a gun," said he.

"An' I never will," said Mrs. Endey, grimly. "You've got a son-in-law, though, who's worth a whole townful of most son-in-laws. He was such a good son, too; jest worshipped his mother; couldn't bear her out o' his sight. He humored her high an' low. That's jest the way Sidonie does with me.

"Dis freedom business so mux up I kyant smoke hit out nohow." Zany was in a terribly divided state of mind. Were it not for Miss Lou, she would have been ready enough to go, especially as she had heard that Chunk was at the railroad town. Her restless spirit craved excitement and freedom: a townful of admirers, with Chunk thrown in, was an exceedingly alluring prospect.

Yet the conduct of drunkards even at home is always matter for anxiety; and at home our populations are not armed from the highest to the lowest with revolvers and repeating rifles, neither do we go on a debauch by the whole townful and I might rather say, by the whole polity king, magistrates, police, and army joining in one common scene of drunkenness.

Why in the world should I growl to find myself stranded half way up, when there is a townful of people behind us clear down at the bottom, and no more their fault than mine? Why should I mind that I am left out from the best chances, any more than that a thousand other fellows are? 'What Act of Legislature was there that' I should be cultured?"

Somehow I think that in those days my opinions must have been different from now now that I have lost everything.... Yet the woman used to say, 'You have NOT lost everything, and she had wit enough to fit out a whole townful of people." "This woman who was she?" "The wife of a merchant. Whenever she unrobed and said, 'Come!

Make dogma absolute, and to inflict or to suffer death becomes easy and necessary; and Mahomet's soldiers shouting, 'Paradise! Paradise! and dying on the Christian spears, are not more or less praiseworthy than the same men slaughtering a townful of Jews, or cutting off the heads of all prisoners who would not acknowledge that there was but one Prophet of God."

On this journey into Italy he came across Cicero. If he could be cruel without a pang to the arranging the starvation of a townful of women, because they as well as the men must eat he could be magnificent in his treatment of a Cicero.