Once when his right arm was in a sling, broken by a fall from a horse, he offered prayer in the old church.

And unable to use his arm as usual, he so balanced his gyrations that he in some way drifted around until when he said "Amen" his face fronted the whitewashed wall back of his pulpit.

He turned to the minister standing by him, saying in a very audible whisper, "Do you think anybody noticed it ?" He was so genuinely hospitable that when a friend suddenly accepted his "come up any time" invitation, he found no one at home but the doctor, who proposed their killing a chicken.

Soon one was let out, but she evaded her pursuers.

"You shoo, and I'll catch," cried the kind host, but shrank back as the fowl came near, exclaiming: "Say, West, has a hen got teeth ?" At last they conquered, plucked, and cooked her for a somewhat tardy meal, with some potatoes clawed up in the potato field.