The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-01

A S Ssa E--- --*A - L.- --1s st Es An impartial iudgo after reading the
 ,il>ions of your brain. would say tha5 you
 assessed an egotistical desire to be called
 ne '.boss liar of he world and aspired tc
 ,e chairman of the Lying Club, but you
 .ne totally ec!ipsed. The ''boss liar re.
 ides at Yuma, Arizona: Said the ''boaa, ''
 o1, da7, to a friend, as they sat under the
 eranda of the ''boss adohe," are you <
 good shot? "Yes, pretty fair, why?' Dye
 see that crow on the pole yondcr: =
 "Yes" Dye notice that the end of the VT per half os Lis bill has disappeared =
 "Yes" 'fTell, chi?ped his beak one day
 with my rifle at tyo hundred yards and i. want enc of my good shootin days neither. v
 Il had powerful intelligent dog wunst.
 Ie and the old woman concluded we'd take a few days passiar up to Los Angeles in til,
 .ars. In the hustle an' hurry of getti
 .-ady, we forgot all about Sharp That,
 that used to call him. When we goi h me again. approaching the house, I dis civered the froat door standing wide open and sharp waitin to receive us. Of course the neighbors focked over to see us, all Cap. (that is my next neighbor,) said he noticed every day while we was away th, frunt door was open and at night it would loticod the dog had suthiu in his mouth We'll, thought an sifted the matter an remembered the last seen of that dug u, jay eye left he WAS lyin' under the he,] We locked the front door on the insid, leavin the key ;n the door an locked tbe pack deer on the outside an tsok the ke.
 tith us, Now that dog unlocked the frar7 loor dcril' the day an locked i5 at pight Another surprisil thing as, as the laHl loId told me, he vent to ths hotel 5o boar an by iumpin around, an winkin one ey he had fashun of doin that when he Wa hungry,) an rnsLin of to tue ki5chin, tb, landlord told the cook to feed him al. Sharp never missed meal S Eile we wa gone. 1 offered to pay Jim Horn fur th tog's board but Le wud'ut take a cent in town knowed that dog al ae was 8 great favorite. Dye see that pie
 UT that, hangin on the wall, well that's sharp. One of them travlin artists cUn along an giv him fifty dollars to take thu dogs pictur. Somebody put cut some pizel stuff or suthin for to kill rats CT cats shortiy after his pictur was taken an' he got soue of it.
 Livin aint near as cheap now days as ii was forty an fifty years ago. l was tray lin out west wunst an ] santered into hotel in Indianapolis one day. l. was fin, iooi,in house built of bticks three or fou stories The barroom was elegant, but the diuin room beat everything. 1 walked in. a Ligger tuck my hat Triggers was plenty them days,l an per.itely' pulled back chair an 1 set down. The table was sPred out magnif wish china rare aa' cut glass an solid silver knives an forks all spoons. Tn, nigger axed me what I'd hev. I told him 5N duGell SOOu llulSi ilS htSI tIliB It brought me was q bis plate of fresh Balti more isters. Next, well, I cant recolleci all. They was chicken, turkey, roast pig. in all, should jedge about dozen diff rem courses. an Champaigne ad' claret and ice. When went to the bar l axel the lanllord how much to pay for my dinner an he per litely told me ten cents.
 Everything used to be mighty cheap out in the West when I lived ther, specially egss. OAe day 1 wanted some tow to clean my shot gun. Now nuthin beats tow fun that business. So looked around an seed q hoy g9in long the street with basket full of the stuff wanted, so I axed him what he'd take fur that basket ov tov. fI5 aint tow,' he said, its eggs Nov didn't want the eggs, but ] jest thought Fl bay him out far the tow, so 1 axe1 him what he'd take fur that lot. He said they was six dozen eggs, an 1 cud hev the hull lot, baske an, tow throwed in fur five cents. tuk the lot jest fur the tow. -'BRowN."