Pa and the Bad Boy Stop Off at a Lively Western Town--Pa Buys
Mining Stock and Takes Part in a Rabbit Drive.

Well, we are on the way back home, after having engaged Indians,
cowboys, rough riders and highway robbers to join our show for
next season. Pa felt real young and kitteny when we cam to the
railroad, after leaving our robber friends at the Hole-in-the-
Wall, far into the mountain country. We came to a lively town on
the railroad, where every other house is a gambling house, and
every other one a plain saloon, and there was great excitement in
the town over our arrival, 'cause there don't very many rich and
prosperous people stop there.

Pa had looked over the money the robbers had given him, to throw
it away, because it was old-fashioned confederate money, when he
found that there was only one bundle of confederate money, and the
rest was all good greenbacks, the bundle of confederate money
probably having been shipped west to some museum, and the robbers
having got hold of it in the dark, brought it along. Pa burned up
the bad money at the hotel, and then he got stuck on the town, and
said he would stay there a few days and rest up, and incidentally
break a few faro banks, by a system, the way the smart alecks
break the bank at Monte Carlo.

I teased Pa to take the first train for home, so we could join the
circus before it closed the season, and he could report to the
managers the result of his business trip to the west, but Pa said
he had heard of a man who had a herd of buffalo on a ranch not far
from that town, and before he returned to the show he was going to
buy a herd of buffalo for the cowboys and Indians to chase around