Uncle Dudley's odd hours, being the vagaries of a country editor . second hand box, and was the only thing the poor manhad, who owed us, and so we took it, that he might beentirely unencumbered with personal property. Thenwe yanked out a gridiron, and a dozen patent clothes-pins ; three five-cent, and five three-cent nickels; thena bottle of pepper-sauce, a box of condition powders,and a large piece of earthen ware with a handle on oneside. This was the result, and after all, we flatteredourself that there were many worse collectors in theworld than ourself. As the entire bill of goods lay all
Uncle Dudley's odd hours, being the vagaries of a country editor . second hand box, and was the only thing the poor manhad, who owed us, and so we took it, that he might beentirely unencumbered with personal property. Thenwe yanked out a gridiron, and a dozen patent clothes-pins ; three five-cent, and five three-cent nickels; thena bottle of pepper-sauce, a box of condition powders,and a large piece of earthen ware with a handle on oneside. This was the result, and after all, we flatteredourself that there were many worse collectors in theworld than ourself. As the entire bill of goods lay allabout on the green grass, the sight was a rich one, andwe fancied ourself an East Indian merchantman, rec-ently returned from a successful voyage. After feast-ing our eyes for a time, we gave a stout boy the oddpepper box to help us repack our effects and bring theminto camp. Those persons who still owe us, can restassured that we are well heeled on everything ex-cept money; we could handle a good deal more ofthat than we possess, with considerable 23 176 UNCLE DUDLEYS
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