He, after a long pause, said, "Was you in the hotel parlor last night?"

"Yes," I said, "I was."

"Did you hear that lady sing?"

"Yes, I did. Did you?"

"You bet I did. I was standing with the rest of the folks out on the

piazza."

How curious it would be to hear a wild Western unvarnished,

unprejudiced judgment of myself! "What did you think of her singing?" I

asked my companion.