p. Old Mr. Wilcox was explaining to him the science
of them last looks he was so famous at when he was a younger man. Young
Mr. Wilcox was laying on a table fur Looey to practise on, and Looey was
learning fast. But he nearly broke down when he said good-bye, fur he
liked the doctor.

"Doc," he says, "you've been a good friend, and I won't never forget
you. They ain't much I can do, and in this deceitful world words is less
than actions. But if you ever was to die within a hundred miles of me,
I'd go," he says, "and no other hands but mine should lay you out. And
it wouldn't cost you a cent, either. Nor you neither, Danny."

We thanked him kindly fur the offer, and went.

The next town we come to there was a county fair, and the doctor run
acrost an old pal of his'n who had a show on the grounds and wanted to
hire him fur what he called a ballyhoo man. Which was the first I ever
hearn them called that, but I got better acquainted with them since.
They are the fellers that stands out in front and gets you all excited
about the Siamese twins or the bearded lady or the snake-charmer or the
Circassian beauties or whatever it is inside the tent, as represented
upon the canvas. The doctor says he will do it fur a week, jest fur fun,
and mebby pick up another feller to take Looey's place out there.

This feller's name is Watty Sanders, and his wife is a fat lady in his
own show and very good-natured when not intoxicated nor mad at Watty. She
was billed on the curtains outside fur five hundred and fifty pounds,
and Watty says she really does weigh nigh on to four hundred. But being
a fat lady's husband ain't no bed of rosy ease at that, Watty tells
the doctor. It's like every other trade--it has its own pertic'ler
responsibilities and troubles. She is a turrible expense to Watty on
account of eating so much. The tales that feller told of how hard he
has to hustle showing her off in order to support her appetite would of
drawed tears from a pawnbroker's sign, as Doctor Kirby says. Which he
found it cheaper fur his hull show to board and sleep in the tent, and
we done likewise.

Well, I got a job with that show myself. Watty had a wild man canvas
but no wild man, so he made me an offer and I took him up. I was from
Borneo, where they're all supposed to be captured. Jest as Doctor Kirby
would get to his talk about how the wild man had been ketched after
great struggle and expense, with four men killed and another crippled,
th