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Show hnt my hroih<'r t hrro-.·o he copie .. form . It's hi hand yon\e o·ot ther ',not 1nine.'' ' lrell ! · !"ay~ th(• Jawy r, '' thi · is a , tate of thing,. I\ got .. ·o1ne of \YiJli;un\:; l it 'rs too; so if you'll get hi1n to writ, a linr or . \Yc can emn ·· "1 [c can't \\Tito with his left han( I;' says th old genilPinan. "If he could n' his right hand, you would 'C'' that h wrot<' his own letiC'r: nnd 1nine too. Look at both, plea c-they'r<' by t he saul hand.·· Th lawy<'r don C' it, an(l says: ''I helie\·' it's so-and jf it ain't ·o, there', a heap .troncrcr rc~en1blanc tlwn £\1 not iced before, anyway. \Yell, \Yell, we~ I! I thought \YC was righL on ih trac1 ~ of a slution, but it's gone to gra. s, partly. Bnt n.ny\Yay, one i hing i: proved-these two nin't . ither of 'en1 \\TilJ~S<'.' ··-and he w:.~gged his head toward.· the Jong and iJ1P duk . \\""ell, \rhat do you think ?-tbat 1nuleh ead d ohl fool "\rouldn't gi,·e in then! Indeed he ·wouldn't. Said it \rarl) 't ~o filir te.t. i-\aicl his brother \Yilliam was the cussede t joker 111 . the "·orld, and hadn~t t?·iecl to write-he see W1'llI' ::un "·a . going to play one of his jokes the minute he put the prn to ~;C'r. And ~o he warmed up and went warbling and warhling nb ht along, till he was actually beD'innino- to believe \rhat he . 1,' b b was sa~Ing, um8e1j-hut }>retty soon the nC\'v. old g nUcn1an brok In and say : " "I'\·e thought of : oh1 'thing. Is there anybody here that help d to lay out 1ny br-hclpcd to lay out the ]ate Peter \\Tilks for hnr .y j n ,.a., !l ., "y ., e ' sny. ·oin •body, "1ne and Ab Turner done it \Yc\e both here.'' · "T hpe n ,t he ol<. linan turn towards the 17' d . \.Ing, an says . . er ap tlu · gentlen1an can tell me 1vhat was tattooed on h1s breast ? ., - ·)o·) " " Bhnn d if th l<ing didn't baY to hntce up 1nighty <1Uil'k or h \l a sqush d do\rn like a bluff bank t hut UH· ri \. r ha cut. under, it t ok hin1 o .·Heiden- and mind you it \ra a thing that wa... alculatccl to lll(l k lno t anvbody :qnsh to g t f ·t ·heel . uch a olid on as that \ritl1ont any 11 tic - hocnn. c how \rn .· he going to kno·w wh<tt wa: tatt oed on th Juan? 1 [e \Yhitrn d a little; h couldn't h elp it; ancl it \vas 1nigl1ty .. t ill in there, and C'Ycrybocly bending a liLtl fon,·anls and gazing at hitn . Says I io 1ny lf, 0t ....o 1..u hC''ll thro\v up the pong '-there ain't no 1nor u:e. \Y 11, did he? A body can't hardly bPli YC' it, but he di(ln 't. I r cl"on h' thought he (1 keep t he' thing np i ill he tired thc1n people out, .'O th y\1 thin out and h itn ant1 thP duke could break loos' and get 'nvay. Anywny he :eL there, and pretty soon he begun io 1nil , <nHl ·ny · : "l\If! I t' · a vel'y touah <j1H' ti n, ain't it! 1. .e. , s ir, T k'n tell JOU \Vhat' .... tattooe<.l 011 his brca. 't. 1 r~ j <'st a ."Jl1iJJl i ltin, blue arrow-that's \vhat it i ; and if you d n 't look c1 ·t you can't see it. J..~o'w \vhat do you sny-hcy?" \Yell I neYer . c anvthino- like thai ol<l bli~·d<'r for cl an " out-and-out chc k. The ne\v old g nt] 1nan turns bri k towards A b Turner an(l hi· pard, and hi cy lights up like h juclg d h h~Hl got the~ king thi. time, and . ays : "'l'h re-you'v l1 ar l \vhat h ..;aid! ,, .. a. th r any ·uch mark on Peter vYilks\; breast?., Both of them spoke up nn l nys : " \ iVe didn't see no . nch Jnark.'' "Good! " says the oll gentleman. "Now, what you dicl see on hi-. brea t wa: n sn1aH dim P, ancl a B (which is an initial he droppe l when h wa.' young), and a ''r' with da h s betw(:len them, so : P - B-W ''-and he marked them that way on a piece of paper. " 10lne--ain't that what you ·aw? ' Both of them spoke up again, and say : |