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Wolfville.

an' I wants to say Doc Peets is the best eddicated gent in Arizona-as follows:

SACRED To the MEMoRY OF
CRAWFiSH JiM, JuLiuS CÆsAR
AND
ELEvEn OtHEr BULL SnAKES,
THEY mEAnT WELl,
BuT They MISUNDERsTood ExIST-
ENCE AND DieD.
THIS BOARD wAS REAREd By AN
AdMiRInG ciRcLE of FRieNDS
wHO WAS wITH DEcEASED
To THE LAsT.

"An' don't you-all know, son, this yere onfortunate weedin' out of pore Crawfish that a-way, sorter settles down on the camp an' preys on us for mighty likely it's a week. It shorely is a source of gloom. Moreover, it done gives Dan Boggs the fan-tods. As I relates prior, Boggs is emotional a whole lot, an' once let him get what you-all calls a shock—same, for instance, as them bull-snakes—its shore due to set Boggs's intellects to millin'. An' that's what happens now. We-alls don't get Boggs bedded down none for ten days, his visions is that acoote.

"'Which of course,' says Boggs, while we-alls