ndered what
people were laughing at, as we passed them.

In a few days we arrived at Napoleon, drove up in front of the hotel,
jumped out, ordered our horse put out, rushed in, grabbed the proprietor
by the hands, with--"How are you, landlord? Did you think we had jumped
our board bill this time? How are the folks? Guess we'll take a wash.
Put us down for a good room, landlord. Any cream biscuit for supper
to-night?"

He said: "By gol, I didn't hardly know what to think of it, this time;
but I thought perhaps you would turn up, after a while."

He seemed delighted that we had brought a horse and wagon with us, and
we tried to sell it to him. He would have bought, only that the
fish-pole-and-corn scheme had to be kept up, to make the horse go.

After about three days we again left; and then succeeded in making a
very fair trade, coming into possession of a handsome pair of horses,
harness and carriage, and two hundred and fifty dollars in cash, for six
County rights.

We then traded the old horse for a small pony, which we sold for twenty
dollars, and started for Napoleon, arriving there after an absence of
about ten days.

We drove up to the hotel, ordered our horses put out, rushed in as
usual, took the proprietor by the hand, and said:

"You just about thought we had quit you for good, this time, didn't
you? Guess we'll take a wash, landlord. Put us down for a good room. How
about the cream biscuit? Folks all well? Landlord, did you notice our
team? It's the finest in the land. Have 'em taken good care of. By Jove!
We're glad to get home once more. You're looking fine, landlord. Have a
cigar?"

He put on a sickly smile, and after lighting a cigar, said he knew we
would come back; and asked how our business was.

We told him it had been a little slack, on account of its being so hard
to get money. We staid there a week longer, and tried every conceivable
plan to force the landlord to ask us for money, but he never mentioned
it during our stay. We sold our team and carriage for three hundred
dollars cash, and put the money in our pockets, without ever mentioning
our hotel bill, or acting as though we considered ourselves his debtors.

Then we made returns to the patentees for their share of the profits on
the sales we had made.

The landlord proved himself the "sort of mettle" for our business; and
at last one day I stepped up to him, reached out my hand, and said:
"Well, landlord, I guess we'll have to le