t him to know nothing about any trouble.'
"After chewin' for a while he consented, and away went the army.
"So bimeby Percy woke up and said he'd had a nice nap and felt
refreshed and--um--invigorated, and him and me went back to town,
and he never suspicioned ther'd been an Injun risin', soldiers nor
nothin'. I have felt like offering one hundred dollars' reward to
the person who'd produce something that Percy would suspect. And
whenever I think of that my spirits lift to that extent I could
almost go out and get married again.
"And this here ticker I set great store by, because it come from
Percy and says inside of it, 'To E. G. Washington Scraggs, in
memory of our beautiful friendship, from Percival Mervin'--and that
to a tough old Mormon like me! Well, he was one darned nice little
man."
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