Some say he went mad, and lived in the ranges all the time, and that this was all a mere madman's fancy.

But, whether he was mad or not then, he is sane enough now, and has married a wife, and settled down to be one of the most thriving men in that part of the country.
"Well," said the Doctor, thrusting his fists deep into his breeches pockets, "I don't believe that story." "Nor I either, Doctor," I replied.

"But it has amused you all for half an hour; so let it pass." "Oh!" said the Doctor, rather peevishly, "if you put it on those grounds, I am bound, of course, to withhold a few little criticisms I was inclined to make on its probability.

I hope you won't go and pass it off as authentic, you know, because if we once begin to entertain these sort of legends as meaning anything, the whole history of the country becomes one great fogbank, through which the devil himself could not find his way." "Now, for my part," said mischievous Alice, "I think it a very pretty story.

And I have no doubt that it is every word of it true." "Oh, dear me, then," said the Doctor, "let us vote it true.