Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-12-02
CHAPTER VIII.

business The horses and carriage
were waiting at the door and they
mounted to their seats. David was
embarrassed by the novelty OF the sit
uation. and Pepeeta by his presence:
but the quack was in his highest spir-
fits. He saluted the bystanders with
easy familiarity, ostentatiously fung
the hostler a coin, flourished his whip
and excited universal admiration for
his driving. During the turn which
they took around the city for an ad-
vertisement. he indoctrinated his pu-
Pill with the principles Of his art.
People to- day are just what they
were centuries ago Gg-gull EN- just
as easy Make em think the moon Is
made OF g-g-green cheese-way to
catch larks is to p-p-pull the heavens
down-extract sunbeams from c-c-cu-
cumbers and all the rest! There's
ono master weakness. Davy. They all
think they are sick. or II they DID,
don't. you can make 'em!"
What. Make a we'll man think he
Is sick?" the Quaker asked in aston
fshment.
Sure. That's the secret Of success.
can pick out the strongest man In
the c-c-crowd and in Ave minutes have
pains shooting through him like g-g-
creased lightning. They are all like
jumping packs to the man that knows
them. You watch me pull the string
and you-you'll see them wig wig wig
gle"
1T seems a pity to take advantage
OF such weakness in our fellow men,"
To t,iS ~ haO ~
fer qualms as he contemplated this
rascality in his own connection with
It.
Fellow men. They are no fellows
OF mind. They are nuts for me to c.
c-crack. They are oysters for me to
OPEN" responded the quack. as he
drove gaily into the public square and
checked the horses. who stood with
their proud necks arched. champing
their bits and looking around at the
crowd as II they shared their masters
contempt
Pepeeta descended from the car
riage and made her way hastily into
the tent which had already been pitch
ed for her. The doctor lighted his
torch and set his stock Of goods while
David. obeying his directions. began
to move among the people to study
their habits Elbowing his way here
and there, he contemplated the crowd
in the light of the ouack's philosophy.
and as he did so received q series Of
painful mental shocks.
The first principle in the art of
painting a picture Is to know where
to sit down." in other words, every
thing depends upon the point Of view.
Now that David began to look for evi-
dencss of the weaknesses and follies of
his fellow men. he saw them every
where. For the first time in his life
he observed that startling prevalence
Of animal types which always COM
municates such a shock to the mind of
him who has never discovered II be-
fore. Every countenance suddenly
seemed to be the face OF beast but
thinly and imperfectly yelled. There
were foxes and tigers and wolves,
there were bulldogs and monkeys and
swine. He had always seen, or thought
he saw, upon the foreheads Of his fell
low men some evidence of that divin
ity which had been communicated to
them when God breathed into the
great first father the breath Of life;
but now he shuddered at the sight OF
those thick lips and dropping jaws,
those dull or crafty eyes, those sui
len. sodden, gargoyle features. as men
do at beholding monstrosities.
A few weeks ago he would have felt
. profound pity at this discovery. but
90 rapid and radical had been the al
terAtion in his feelings that he was
now seized by sudden revulsion and
contempt Are these creatures really
men," he asked himself. He stood
there among them taller straighter,
keener handsomer than them ALL and
the old feelings that have made men
aristocrats and tyrants in every age
OF the world. surged in his heart and
hardened IT against them.
BY this time the Quack had finished
his few simple preparations. and,
standing erect before his audience. be-
gan the business Of the evening. Hav-
ing observed the habits of the game
David now chose a favorable position
to study those Of the hunter. He
watched with an almost breathless in
terest every expression upon that sin
lister face and listened with bound
less interest to every word that fell
from those treacherous lips.
He was not long in justifying the
quack's honest criticism OF his own
oratory. His voice lacked the vibrant
tones Of a musical instrument and his
rhetoric that fuency. without which
the highest efforts OF eloquence can
never be attined By speaking very
slowly and deliberately he avoided
stammering, but this always acted like |
q dragging anchor upon the movement
OF his thought These were radical |
defects. but in every other respect he
was a consummate artist He arrest
ed the attention OF his hearers with an
inimita BILE skill and held It with an ir-
resistible power.
His piercing eye noted every express
sion on the faces OF his hearers, and
seemed to read the inmost secrets OF
their hearts. He perceived the slight
st inclination to purchase, and was as
keen to see a hand steal towards a
pocket book as a cat to see a mouse
steal out OF it's hole.
He coaxed. he wheedled he banter
ed. he abused-he even threatened. He
fulfilled his promise TO the letter, ito
make the well men think that they
were sick" and many a stalwart from
Gernman whose body was az sound as