These included a can-opener, which now did duty on the smoked tins.

It was only a can-buoy, lifting lonely to the swell.

Well my dear Country-men, what ye lack, if you continue and fall not back upon the first broken shin, I'le have you chronicled, and chronicled, and cut and chronicled and all to be prais'd, and sung in Sonnets, and bath'd in new brave Ballads, that all tongues shall troule you in Saecula Saeculorum my kind Can-carriers.

Up there, on the rude shelf above the stove, was a row of old tomato-cans brimful of Bonanza gold.

The holder of the spoons jingled them in perfect harmony with the accordion, and the can-operator tapped and thumped the tin, so that the three made a singular and tingling music.

"I suppose," said he "that if a Mun-da-wah-can-ton had told you to kill a buffalo, you would have done it, but you do not regard what a Sisse-ton says."

They gave me a couple of fish, of the kind called pe-can-o by the Indians. 24th.