Chapter 1. Sim Gage At Home
_ CHAPTER I. SIM GAGE AT HOME
"Sim," said Wid Gardner, as he cast a frowning glance around him, "take it one way with another, and I expect this is a leetle the dirtiest place in the Two-Forks Valley."
The man accosted did no more than turn a mild blue eye toward the speaker and resume his whittling. He smiled faintly, with a sort of apology, as the other went on.
"I‘ll say more‘n that, Sim. It‘s the blamedest, dirtiest hole in the whole state of Montany--yes, or in the whole wide world. Lookit!"
He swept a hand around, indicating the interior of the single-room log cabin in which they sat.
"Well," commented Sim Gage after a time, taking a meditative but wholly unagitated tobacco shot at the cook stove, "I ain‘t saying she is and I ain‘t saying she ain‘t. But I never did say I was a perfessional housekeeper, did I now?"
"Well, some folks has more sense of what‘s right, anyways," grumbled Wid Gardner, shifting his position on one of the

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