"'Heap firewater,' says I.

"John Tom frowns, and thinks a little. 'Combined,' says he directly,
'with the interesting little physiological shake-up known as reversion
to type. I remember now. Have they gone yet?'

"'On the 7:30 train,' I answers.

"'Ugh!' says John Tom; 'better so. Paleface, bring big Chief
Wish-Heap-Dough a little bromo-seltzer, and then he'll take up the
redman's burden again.'"



[Illustration: Emigrants' Camp (An early drawing by O. Henry)]




HELPING THE OTHER FELLOW


[Originally published in _Munsey's Magazine_, December,
1908.]


"But can thim that helps others help thimselves!"
--Mulvaney.