"But one day Uncle Sam comes along an' wants to cash in; an' thar
this yere crazy-hoss Major is with ten times as many chips out as
he's got bank-roll to meet, an' it all fatigues the gov'ment to that
extent the Major's cashiered, an' told to vamos the army for good.
"I allers allows it's whiskey an' kyards gets the Major's roll that
time. Peets says he sees him 'way back once over some'ers near the
Mohave Desert--Wingate, mebby--an' whiskey an' poker has the Major
roped; one by the horns, the other by the hoofs; an' they jest
throws him an' drug him, an' drug him an' throws him, alternate. The
Major never shakes loose from the loops of them vices; none
whatever.
"An' that's mighty likely, jest as I says, how the Major finds
himse'f cashiered an' afoot; an' nothin' but disgrace to get rid of
an' whiskey to get, to fill the future with.
"So it comes when I trails up on the Major he's a drunkard complete,
hangin' 'round with a tin-horn an' a handful of dice, tryin' to get
Mexicans or Chinamen to go ag'in 'em for any small thing they names.
"It's on account of this yere drunkard the Major that the Deef Woman
comes stagin' it in with Old Monte one day.
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