began to regard him with awe-struck admiration. Every afternoon he
waited in the office until the paper came out, and then he marched off
with a copy in which his 'talk' was marked. He showed this to every
Indian he saw, and together they admired it with the paper wrong side
up, sidewise, and every other way. Johnson's special friends among the
whites were similarly favored. He would hand the paper with a
magnificent air, point a dirty finger to a marked paragraph, and say,
'Make 'um paper talk--me!'

"The civilizing influence of literary pursuits and universal respect
soon told upon Johnson's personal appearance. He began to wash his
face and hands. His self-respect seemed to grow, like love, by what it
fed on; and the more he became respectable, the more his ambitions
spread out and flourished. The next time he had big luck in a poker
game, instead of spending his money in a spree, he bought a brand-new
suit of store clothes.

"His new position in society by that time demanded more money to
support it properly than his literary efforts brought in; and as poker
games were not always on hand, and sometimes turned out the wrong way,
Johnson actually decided to work. His free, proud soul had been so
effectually tamed by respectability and harnessed by civilization that
he accepted every odd job of work that came along by which he could
earn money. He looked quite decent and respectable, and, by virtue of
really trying to do it, he managed to get a fairly good command of
English.

"The civilizing process had been going on two or three years when
Johnson's mind got an illumination as to the value of knowledge. He
decided that the young Piutes ought to go to school, though Johnson