"We're dealing with a tenderfoot and a stranger to the saloon-keeper," he said, as we struck into the sage-brush wilderness.

'"A graveyard meeting,'" repeated the saloon-keeper.

" The saloon-keeper cleared his throat.

Racey removed his eyes from the slack-chinned countenance of the saloon-keeper to thin-faced, foxy-nosed Luke Tweezy.

The saloon-keeper reacted immediately to the cold menace of the gun-muzzle pressing against the top of his spinal column.

What more do you want?" The efficient deputy towed the saloon-keeper round the bar and out into the barroom.

The evidence was overwhelmingly against the saloon-keeper.

The saloon-keeper began to roar instantly, and had to be quieted by Kansas Casey.

Observing which Racey knew that it must have been an easy matter for McFluke to crawl through, for the saloon-keeper's shoulders, wide as they were, were not as broad as those of Kansas Casey by a good inch and a half.

"I guess maybe you don't, after all," Racey said, disgustedly, flinging the unfortunate saloon-keeper from him with such force that the fellow skittered quite across the floor and sat down in the washpan into which the bartender was accustomed to throw the broken glassware.

Finally two men held his head and the saloon-keeper swung into the saddle.

The saloon-keeper turned away.

The saloon-keeper approached him, struggling with a grin.

He recognised all the typesthe miner, the gambler, the saloon-keeper, the bad man, the cowboy, the prospectorjust as though they had stepped living from the pages of his classics.

" "Mary Joseph, the saloon-keeper's daughter?" "Yes." "How did it happen?" "Yesterday in changing seats, the teacher put us together according to the first letter in our last names.

The treatment of the saloon-keeper's daughter, and that of other girls of her ilk, has stung her into strength.

"What a fool he is to refuse my offer," thought the saloon-keeper.

Josef Strauss, son of a saloon-keeper, married Anna Streim, daughter of an innkeeper.

It is a good alibi; it is readily believed, always awakens sympathy and at once turns the wrath of a provincial community from the inmate of the prison to the saloon-keeper.

Mike sold his old masters to a saloon-keeper and moved back to Packingtown, where he invested all his money in houses, from which he got a heap of satisfaction, because, as his tenants were compatriots, he had plenty of excitement collecting his rents.

By this time the saloon-keeper was on the spot making all sorts of threats about having us both arrested, and quite a crowd had gathered.

The saloon-keeper moved to a chair and picked up a rumpled paper.

"They got him," said the saloon-keeper.

" "Mebby he wants water," suggested the saloon-keeper.

The thrown weapon missed its mark by a narrow inch, striking the wall behind, and falling clattering to the floor, but the other broke through the big saloon-keeper's guard, and sent him reeling to his knees, a gush of blood reddening his hair.