They is considerable woods in that country yet,
though lots has been cut off. But they was some-
times right long stretches where they would be
woods on both sides of the road, more or less thick,
with underbrush between the trees. We tramped
along, each busy thinking his own thoughts, and
having a purty good time jest doing that without
there being no use of talking. I was thinking that
I liked the doctor better fur turning his back on all
this game, jest when he might of made some sort
of a deal with the bishop and really made some
money out of it in the end. He never was so good
a business man as he thought he was, Doctor
Kirby wasn't. He always could make himself
think he was. But when it come right down
to brass tacks he wasn't. You give him a scheme
that would TALK well, the kind of a josh talk he liked
to get off fur his own enjoyment, and he would take
up with it every time instead of one that had more
promise of money to it if it was worked harder.
He was thinking of the TALK more'n he was of the
money, mostly; and he was always saying some-
thing about art fur art's sake, which was plumb
foolishness, fur he never painted no pictures. Well,
he never got over being more or less of a puzzle
to me. But fur some reason or other this morning
he seemed to be in a better humour with himself,
after we had walked a while, than I had seen him
in fur a long time.
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