Barkeep, I'm doin' this myse'f.'

"Well, it's hard enoomeratin' how many drinks we do have. Jim Baxter
throws away the wagon cover an' comes over from the New York Store
an' stands in with us. It gets to be a orgy.

"'Of course it's all right,' says Enright, 'the camp wins with Tutt
instead of Baxter; that's all. It 'lustrates one of them beautiful
characteristics of the gentler sex, too. Yere's Baxter, to say
nothin' of twenty others, as besieges an' beleaguers this yere
female for six weeks, an' she scorns 'em. Yere's Tutt, who ain't
makin' a move, an' she grabs him. It is sech oncertainties, gents,
as makes

the love of woman valuable.' "'You-alls should have asked me,' says
Faro Nell, who comes in right then an' rounds up close to Cherokee.
'I could tell you two weeks ago Jennie's in love with Tutt. Anybody
could see it. Why! she's been feedin' of him twice as good grub as
she does anybody else.'"




CHAPTER VII.

TUCSON JENNIE'S JEALOUSY.


"No; Dave an' his wife prospers along all right. That is, they
prospers all but once; that's when Jennie gets jealous."