The amount of blondes and brunettes and widows and old maids that he's slated to marry, accordin' to them fortune tellers, is perfectly scandalous.

If he lives up to the prophecies, Brigham Young wouldn't be a twospot 'longside of him." "It's funny about dreams," mused Captain Hiram.

"Folks are always tellin' about their comin' true, but none of mine ever did.

I used to dream I was goin' to be drowned, but I ain't been yet." The depot master laughed.

"Well," he observed, "once, when I was a youngster, I dreamed two nights runnin' that I was bein' hung.