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"
What
was
this
graft
?
"
asked
Johnny
,
with
the
impatience
of
the
great
public
to
whom
tales
are
told
.
"
'
Tis
contrary
to
art
and
philosophy
to
give
you
the
information
,
"
said
Keogh
,
calmly
.
"
The
art
of
narrative
consists
in
concealing
from
your
audience
everything
it
wants
to
know
until
after
you
expose
your
favourite
opinions
on
topics
foreign
to
the
subject
.
A
good
story
is
like
a
bitter
pill
with
the
sugar
coating
inside
of
it
.
I
will
begin
,
if
you
please
,
with
a
horoscope
located
in
the
Cherokee
Nation
;
and
end
with
a
moral
tune
on
the
phonograph
.
"
Me
and
Henry
Horsecollar
brought
the
first
phonograph
to
this
country
.
Henry
was
a
quarter-breed
,
quarter-back
Cherokee
,
educated
East
in
the
idioms
of
football
,
and
West
in
contraband
whisky
,
and
a
gentleman
,
the
same
as
you
and
me
.
He
was
easy
and
romping
in
his
ways
;
a
man
about
six
foot
,
with
a
kind
of
rubber-tire
movement
.
Yes
,
he
was
a
little
man
about
five
foot
five
,
or
five
foot
eleven
.
He
was
what
you
would
call
a
medium
tall
man
of
average
smallness
.
Henry
had
quit
college
once
,
and
the
Muscogee
jail
three
times
--
the
last-named
institution
on
account
of
introducing
and
selling
whisky
in
the
territories
.
Henry
Horsecollar
never
let
any
cigar
stores
come
up
and
stand
behind
him
.
He
did
n't
belong
to
that
tribe
of
Indians
.
"
Henry
and
me
met
at
Texarkana
,
and
figured
out
this
phonograph
scheme
.
He
had
$
360
which
came
to
him
out
of
a
land
allotment
in
the
reservation
.
I
had
run
down
from
Little
Rock
on
account
of
a
distressful
scene
I
had
witnessed
on
the
street
there
.
A
man
stood
on
a
box
and
passed
around
some
gold
watches
,
screw
case
,
stem-winders
,
Elgin
movement
,
very
elegant
.
Twenty
bucks
they
cost
you
over
the
counter
.
At
three
dollars
the
crowd
fought
for
the
tickers
.
The
man
happened
to
find
a
valise
full
of
them
handy
,
and
he
passed
them
out
like
putting
hot
biscuits
on
a
plate
.
The
backs
were
hard
to
unscrew
,
but
the
crowd
put
its
ear
to
the
case
,
and
they
ticked
mollifying
and
agreeable
.
Three
of
these
watches
were
genuine
tickers
;
the
rest
were
only
kickers
.
Hey
?
Why
,
empty
cases
with
one
of
them
horny
black
bugs
that
fly
around
electric
lights
in
'em
.
Them
bugs
kick
off
minutes
and
seconds
industrious
and
beautiful
.
So
,
this
man
I
was
speaking
of
cleaned
up
$
288
;
and
then
he
went
away
,
because
he
knew
that
when
it
came
time
to
wind
watches
in
Little
Rock
an
entomologist
would
be
needed
,
and
he
was
n't
one
.
"
So
,
as
I
say
,
Henry
had
$
360
,
and
I
had
$
288
.
The
idea
of
introducing
the
phonograph
to
South
America
was
Henry
's
;
but
I
took
to
it
freely
,
being
fond
of
machinery
of
all
kinds
.
"
'
The
Latin
races
,
'
says
Henry
,
explaining
easy
in
the
idioms
he
learned
at
college
,
'
are
peculiarly
adapted
to
be
victims
of
the
phonograph
.
They
have
the
artistic
temperament
.
They
yearn
for
music
and
color
and
gaiety
.
They
give
wampum
to
the
hand-organ
man
and
the
four-legged
chicken
in
the
tent
when
they
're
months
behind
with
the
grocery
and
the
bread-fruit
tree
.
'
"
'
Then
,
'
says
I
,
'
we
'll
export
canned
music
to
the
Latins
;
but
I
'm
mindful
of
Mr.
Julius
Cæsar
's
account
of
'em
where
he
says
:
"
Omnia
Gallia
in
tres
partes
divisa
est
;
"
which
is
the
same
as
to
say
,
"
We
will
need
all
of
our
gall
in
devising
means
to
tree
them
parties
.
"
'
"
I
hated
to
make
a
show
of
education
;
but
I
was
disinclined
to
be
overdone
in
syntax
by
a
mere
Indian
,
a
member
of
a
race
to
which
we
owe
nothing
except
the
land
on
which
the
United
States
is
situated
.
