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2 "TRA VELIN' ON"
In the town of Tumble Bluff we see the usual street
activities and the usual saloons and dance halls, which
are dwarfed by one central Palace of Chance, which
is conducted by Dandy Allen McGee, known far and
wide as a most proficient gambler, a wearer of many
diamonds and a mighty slick man with women. While
a man of striking personality, Dandy Allen McGee
has a face that strongly suggests the animal, its most
prominent feature in this respect being a pug-nose,
which seems to more strongly suggest his pugnacious
nature.

The prairie schooner arrives and Morton pulls up
to water his jaded stock. Out of Dandy Allen McGee's
place come two men rolling and fighting. Hi Morton
watches intently, bystanders gather around but do
not interfere. It becomes too much for Hi Morton
and he jumps from his wagon and goes to where the
combatants are :fighting, and draws from his inside
coat pocket a Bible and starts to preach. His horses
are hungry, his wife and child have made a long journey
in a box wagon and they need nourishment, but all
that is forgotten by Hi Morton in his religious zeal.
He reads his text in all seriousness and starts to preach
fervently and feelingly, which causes the combatants
to stop fighting and gaze upon this dispenser of the
gospel in open mouthed wonderment. And this unus-
ual happening causes all of the occupants of the dif-
ferent dance halls and places of business to flock
around him. Among the dance hall girls who gather,
having come out of Dandy Allen McGee's palace, is
Carmen Rosa, a pretty and chique Spanish girl, and
perched upon her shoulder is a pet, a little chattering
monkey which she calls Jacko. The dealers also come
out in their shirt sleeves and still with their eye-shades