Another ace for Ananias

“It’s an art, like playing a jew’s-harp, turning a jack in a seven-up game or changing a Bar D brand to a Triangle P,” explains “Chuck” Warner. “You and George Washington runs a dead heat, ‘Telescope.’ It’s natural that he beats you out, ’cause in his time the world was very young and the sheriffs were few and far between.

“You don’t need go kiootin’ around about your honesty. You’ve got to be good, ’cause you ain’t got the ability to lie. _Sabe?_ Honest to gosh, tall-feller, you’ll never have nothing in this vale of tears.

“You ain’t got no imagination like me and Henry and ‘Muley.’ We can hang the Injun sign on you any old time, ’cause you trusts humanity.”