urned her loose, to enjoy the sport of
seeing them run.

A CRAZY MAN.

One afternoon I started from Kansas City on the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, and while seated waiting for the train to start I fell
asleep. We had not gone more than ten miles when a crazy man,
armed with a Colt's navy, entered the car. The passengers all
fled, leaving me alone. Up rushed the lunatic and cracked me over
the head a couple of times with so much force that I speedily awoke,
and saw this wild-eyed man standing over me saying, "If you move
I will kill you." I didn't move; only said, "You have made a
mistake;" at which he backed out of the car. Thereupon the passengers
all rushed in with revolvers in hand, wanting to know where that
lunatic was. Though I have seen many crazy people since, I can
never forget the terrible glare of those eyes, and can compare them
to nothing but the fiery glare of a cat's eyes in the dark. I
returned to Kansas City and laid up for some time, as the physicians
feared that erysipelas would set in. It was not more than a week
after this that the lunatic was seen on a house-top hurling bricks
down on the passers-by. He was at last lassoed with a rope and
taken to the station-house. He butted his brains out against the
iron bars of his cell and killed himself.

EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS AGAINST A PISTOL.

I was playing monte one night on the _Robert E. Lee_, when a fellow
stepped up to the table and bet me $800. I knew it was all the
money he had, for he tried to make it $1,000 by putting up his
watch; but in those days I would not turn for a watch unless it
was a Juergunsen or very fine make. When he had lost his money
and spent a few moments studying, he whipped out a Colt's navy and
said, "See here, friend, that is all the money I have got, and I
am going to die right here but I will have it back." I coolly
said, "Did you think I was going to keep the money?" He replied,
"I knew very well you would not keep it. If you had, I would have
filled you full of lead. I am from Texas, sir;" and the man
straightened himself up. Pulling out a roll of money, I said, "I
want to whisper to you." He put his head down, and I said "that
I didn't want to give up the money before all these people; that
then they would want their money back; but you offer to bet me
again, and I will bet the $800 against your pistol."

That pleased him. "All right," he said, and the $800 and pistol
went up in my partner's