DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
DANNY'S OWN STORY BY DON MARQUIS TO MY ... - Pink Monkey
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no show fur quite a while, we'd stay five or six<br />
days, and make a good clean-up. The doctor,<br />
he sent to Chicago several times fur alcohol in<br />
barrels, 'cause he was selling it so fast he had to<br />
make new Sagraw. And he had to get more and<br />
more bottles, and a hull satchel full of new Sagraw<br />
labels printed.<br />
And all the time the doctor was learning me education.<br />
And shucks! they wasn't nothing so hard<br />
about it oncet you'd got started in to reading things.<br />
I jest natcherally took to print like a duck to water,<br />
and inside of a month I was reading nigh everything<br />
that has ever been wrote. He had lots of<br />
books with him and every time a new sockdologer<br />
of a word come along and I learnt how to spell<br />
her and where she orter fit in to make sense it kind<br />
o' tickled me all over. And many's the time<br />
afterward, when me and the doctor had lost track<br />
of each other, and they was quite a spell people<br />
got to thinking I was a tramp, I've went into these<br />
here Andrew Carnegie libraries in different towns<br />
jest as much to see if they had anything fitten to<br />
read as fur to keep warm.<br />
Well, we went easing over toward the Indiany<br />
line, and we was having a purty good time. They<br />
wasn't no work to do you could call really hard,<br />
and they was plenty of vittles. Afternoons we'd<br />
lazy around the camp and swap stories and make<br />
medicine if we needed a batch, and josh back and<br />
forth with the people that hung around, and loaf and<br />
doze and smoke; or mebby do a little fishing if we<br />
was nigh a crick.<br />
And nights after the show was over it was fun,<br />
too. We always had a fire, even if it was a hot<br />
night, fur to cook by in the first place, and fur to<br />
keep mosquitoes off, and to make things seem more<br />
cheerful. They ain't nothing so good as hanging<br />
round a campfire. And they ain't nothing any<br />
better than sleeping outdoors, neither. You roll<br />
up in your blanket with your feet to the fire and you<br />
get to wondering things about things afore you go<br />
to sleep. The silentness jest natcherally swamps