About this time the government bought from Jones and Cartwright several ox-trains, which were sent to Rolla, Missouri, all being put in charge of my old and gallant friend, Wild Bill, who had just become the hero of the day, on account of a terrible fight which he had had with a gang of desperadoes and outlaws, who infested the border under the leadership of the then notorious Jake McCandless.

The disabled desperado, seeing that he was no longer a match for Bill, jumped through the door, and mounting a horse he succeeded in making his escapebeing the sole survivor of the Jake McCandless gang.

They had been engaged a long time, but old Jake Woods had objected, and so they had run away, and were going to Poker Flat to be married, and here they were.

I could see that Jake Holden hadn't been there at all and that nobody had come and told them about the signal, either.

What I thought about most was why Jake Holden hadn't come and told my mother and father like I heard him say he was going to do.

Because I knew Jake Holden (he always called me "Scouty") and he liked me, too, and I knew he would sure have come to the house if something hadn't happened.

When I got up I made up my mind that I'd go to Jake Holden's shanty, just for the fun of it, and find out why he didn't come and tell my family that I was dead.

After breakfast I went to Marshtown (that's a few houses down near the river) to Jake Holden's shanty.

It wasn't Jake's, I knew that, because he always wore fisherman's boots.

So he ran down through the marshes and waited at the landing, because he knew Jake Holden would be coming up stream.

Jake's one good friend to him, and he often took him out and he wasn't afraid of Jake.

Jake's one good friend to him, and he often took him out and he wasn't afraid of Jake.

"Pretty soon he heard Jake's boat coming up the river and saw the light and he just waited there and when Jake come up alongside the float, the first thing Skinny heard him say was, Roy Blakeley is deaddidn't you, Skinny?"

"Pretty soon he heard Jake's boat coming up the river and saw the light and he just waited there and when Jake come up alongside the float, the first thing Skinny heard him say was, Roy Blakeley is deaddidn't you, Skinny?"

Jake didn't pay much attention because he thought Skinny was just a little crazy on account of being so poor and hungry and all that and not having a good home.

Anyway, just to humor him, I guess, Jake promised him he'd wait till early in the morning, and meanwhile you came home.

She said he got a bad cold in the marshes and he was all excited and kind of crazy from the way he'd hung onto Jake and begged him not to go up to your housewhat did the fellows think when I didn't show up?" "Youyou should worry," I just blurted out.

Anyway Jake Holden was a good friend to him

and he wasn't scared of Jake.

I said we'd have to get Jake Holden to tow us down around into the Hudson and then get somebody to tow us up.

'I asked Uncle Jake for one of his best handkerchiefs.

Granny was very angry with me because I had made Uncle Jake's best handkerchief into a banner of love.

'He ain't too good to live,' put in Jake slowly; 'no youngster can beat him in play.'

Dimly Jake Platt began to see the drift of the child's questions.

(In Jake and Lena almanack, by Cal De Voll)