Whilst the drummer, hisself, was mistakin evry bodys head for his musikle instrument, as he dealt out blows rite and left, to all who come within hittin distance of his intossicated drum sticks.

[Footnote 1: The passage is nearly at the beginning of Steeles third chapter, It is in every bodys observation with what disadvantage a Poor Man enters upon the most ordinary affairs, &c.]

They lived eight miles south of the Bodys, and like the latter were attending to their duties about the ranch.

The hands that slew the Bodys and Brothertons were to be clasped in a spirit of brotherly love, and the principles and precepts of the "Lowly Nazarene" were to be extended to these gentle butchers.

[Footnote 1: The passage is nearly at the beginning of Steeles third chapter, It is in every bodys observation with what disadvantage a Poor Man enters upon the most ordinary affairs, &c.]