ay him a man's wages,
because he can ride a pony just as well as a man can.' He was lighter
and could do service of that kind when he was nine years old. I remember
when we paid him twenty-five dollars for the first month's work. He was
paid in half-dollars, and he got fifty of them. He tied them up in his
little handkerchief, and when he got home he untied the handkerchief and
spread the money all over the table."

Colonel Cody--"I have been spreading it ever since."

A few remarks followed indicative of Mr. Majors's appreciation of the
exhibition, and he closed with the remark, "Bless your precious heart,
Colonel Cody!" and sat down, amid great applause.

Senator Thurston's remarks were equally happy. He said:

"Colonel Cody, this is your day. This is your exposition. This is your
city. And we all rejoice that Nebraska is your state. You have carried
the fame of our country and of our state all over the civilized world;
you have been received and honored by princes, by emperors and by kings;
the titled women in the courts of the nations of the world have been
captivated by your charm of manner and your splendid manhood. You are
known wherever you go, abroad or in the United States, as Colonel Cody,
the best representative of the great and progressive West. You
stand here to-day in the midst of a wonderful assembly. Here are
representatives of the heroic and daring characters of most of the
nations of the world. You are entitled to the honor paid you to-day, and
especially entitled to it here. This people know you as a man who has
carried this demonstration of yours to foreign lands, and exhibited it
at home. You have not been a showman in the common sense of the word.
You have been a great national and international educator of men. You
have furnished a demonstration of the possibilities of our country that
has advanced us in the opinion of all the world. But we who have been
with you a third, or more than a third, of a century, we remember you
more dearly and tenderly than others do. We remember that when this
whole Western land was a wilderness, when these representatives of the
aborigines were attempting to hold their own against the onward tide
of civilization, the settler and the hardy pioneer, the women and the
children, felt safe whenever Cody rode along the frontier; he was their
protector and defender.

"Cody, this is your home. You live in the hearts of the people of our
state. God bless you and kee