Miss Sally to Kilo.

When the picnic ended, Irontail had released the rein, and Eliph'
Hewlitt drove off, well pleased with his day's work. He had not only
secured a wife--for he had no doubt that it only needed an application
of the rules set forth in Jarby's Encyclopedia in order to "Win the
Affections" of Miss Sally, and "Hold Them When Won," but he took
with him subscriptions for sixteen volumes of Jarby's Encyclopedia of
Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art, bound in cloth,
five dollars, and two bound in morocco, at seven fifty.

CHAPTER IV. Kilo

The next evening Jim Wilkins, landlord of the Kilo House and proprietor
of the Kilo Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, was sitting in front of his
hotel, with his chair tipped back against the wall, trading bits of
indolent gossip with Pap Briggs, when Eliph' Hewlitt drove his horse
Irontail down Main Street, and pulled up before the hotel. Pap Briggs
had not swallowed his store teeth; he had not even worn them to bed, and
Miss Sally found them on top of the pump in the back yard, where Pap had
doubtless put them when he went to pump himself a drink. He often lost
them, as he wore them more for ornament than for use, and commonly
removed them when he wished to talk, eat, or laugh. It was Sally who
made him buy them, and he wore them more for her sake than for any
other reason, and he was always uncomfortable with them, for they were
a plain, unmistakable misfit, and felt, as he said, "like I got my
mouth full o' tenpenny nails." When out of Sally's sight he avoided
this feeling by carrying them in his hand, hidden in his red bandana
handkerchief. About town he used to show them with a great deal of
pride, and openly boasted of their cost and beauty. On Sunday he wore
them all day.

Whenever Eliph' Hewlitt drove into a town he looked about with a seeing
eye, for he had learned to judge the capacity of a place for Jarby's
Encyclopedia by the appearance of the town, but as he drove into Kilo
he was more than usually interested. If this was the home of Miss Sally
Briggs, it followed that when he had completed his courtship, and had
won her affections and held them, it would be his home, also, and he was
curious to see whether it was a town he would like or not like. He liked
it. It was a real American town, and it looked like a good business
town, because there could be no possible reason for people building a
town on that particular situation unless