"The West shore learns easy an' is quick to change a system or alter
a play. It's plumb swift, the West is; an' what some regards as
rough is mere rapidity. The West might go broke at faro-bank in the
mornin', an' be rich at roulette in the afternoon; you can't tell. I
knows partners in Arizona who rolls out in the gray light of
breakin' day an' begins work by dissolvin' an' windin' up the firm's
affairs. By dark them same gents is pards ag'in in a new enterprise
complete. Folks'll fight at sun-up an' cook their chile con carne
together at night, an' then sleep onder the same blankets. For which
causes thar's no prophets in the West; a Western future that a-way
bein' so mighty oncertain no prophet can fasten his lariat.
"Speakin' of pards an' the fog which surrounds what the same is
likely to do, makes me think of the onlicensed an' onlooked-for
carryin's-on of 'Doby Dawson an' Copper Queen Billy Rudd. Them two
gents fosters a feud among themse'fs that splits 'em wide open an'
keeps 'em pesterin' each other for years; which the doin's of them
locoed people is the scandal of Wolfville while it lasts.
"It's mebby the spring after we erects the Bird Cage Op'ry House,
an' Wolfville is gettin' to be considerable of a camp.
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