The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-02
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DYg aStS n1Ta, TUT they was DIue labeJs and white labels and pink labels.
 He looks at me right queer. Cant ysu read the IaBelsT' he says right sharp.
 'TWeTI," says, ~I never been much of a reader when 1t comes to different kind of medicines''
 '+Corn salve is spelled only one way" says he
 saThat's right I says, "and you'd think T. orter be able to pick out common, ordinary thing like corn salve right of, wouldn't youg''
 Danny" he says, ''you don't mean b tsn me you can't read anything at al?s
 4T reper told you nothing of the Kind
 He picks out. label
 'n you can read so fast, what's that7'' he asts,
 She is a pink one I thinks to my= self: She either Is corn salve or else she aAn'k corn salve- And it ain't nat cheral he win pick corn salve, fur he would think would say that first off So I'm betting 1t ain't. I takes a chancet on 1t
 saThat-" says I, '.fs mighty easy read ing That is Siwash Injun Sagraw.F lost.
 'Tts corn sa1ve." he says. And Great Scott! They call this the twen- eieth centuryY'
 '.I never called it that" says I, sort O mad-hke, fur I was feeling bad Dr. Kirby had found out was such a ig- noramug.
 'FWhere ignorance is bliss,'' says he, eft is folly to be wise. But all the sagne, Pm going to take your education fn hand and make you drink of life's Peruvian springs." Or some spring Nike that it was.
 And the doctor, he done 1t. Looey said it wouldn't be no use learning to read He'd done lot of reading, he said, and. it never helped hims none. All he ever read showed him this fel- Ter Hamlet was right, he said. when he wrote Shakespeares works, and they wasn't much use in anything, without you had a lot O money. And they wasn't no chancet to get that with all these here trusts around gobbling up everything and stomping the poor man into the dirt, and they was lots of times he wisht he was 8 Injun sure enough, and not jest medical one, fur then he'd be a free man and the boss es and the trusts and the railroads and the robber tariff couldn't touch him. And then he shut up and didn't say nothing fur a hull hour, except oncet he laughed
 Fur Dr. Kirby, he says, winking at me. %Looey, here is a nihilist-"
 els hep says I. What's that?" And the doctor tells me about how they blow up dukes and czars and them foreign high-mucky-mucks with dynamite Which is when Looey laughed.
 Well, we logged along at a pretty good gait fur several hours, and we stayed that night at a Swede's place, which the doctor paid him fur every thing in medicine, only it took long time to make the bargain, fur them Swedes is always carefulA not to get cheated and hasn't many diseases. And the next night we showed in little town and done right well and took in considerable money We stay ed there three days and bought a tent and a sheet iron stove and some skill lets and things and some provisions and a suit of duds for me
 We'll. we went on. and we kept go ing on, and they was bully times. wed ease up careful toward town and pick us out a place on the edge, where the hosses could graze along the side of the road. and most gineral- ly by a piece of woods not fur from that town and nigh a crick if we could. Then we'd set up our tent. After we had everything fixed I'd put on my Injun clothes and Looey his'n, and we'd drive through the main store street of the town at a purt6 good lick, me aholt of the reins and the doctor all logged out in his best clothes and Looey doing a Injun dance SI ~@r1n up the hosses sudden in front of the postoface or the depot platform or the hotel, and the people would come crowding around. and the doctor he'd make a little talk from the wagon and tell everybody they would be free show that night on that corner and fur everybody to come to it. And then we'd dr5~e back to camp lickity split
 Purity soon every boy in town would be out there kind O hanging around to see what a Injun camp was like And the farmers that went into and out of town always stopped and passed the time of day. and the InJun camp got the hull town all worked up as a usual thing. and the doctor, he done well, fur when night come every one would be on hand Looey and me, every time we went into town. had on our Injun suits. and the doctor. he wondered why he hadn't never thought up that scheme before. Sometimes when they was lots of people ailing in q town and they hadn't been no show fur quite awhile we'd stay five or six days and make a good cleanup. The doctor. he sent to Chicago several flznes fur aleobo. t2 barrels, cause he -xas selling it so fast he had to make new Sagraw. And he had to get more and more bottles a=d hull satehel full of new Sagraw labels printed.
 And all the time the doctor was learning me education. And, shucks. they wasn't nothing so hard about it oncet you'd got started in to reading thingg! jest natcheraIly took to