Would Rather Fight

Y hile on a prospccting tour in Colorado we stopped all night ai a stage stand. Next mornlng wo s-.it down to oneoi thofee dreádnfl breakfasts that can be found nowhere but in the. West- slate eolored coffee, yellow biscnit, and pork swimmiog in lard. In.lians werc leported as beingin tho noighborbood. The lándlonl proposed that ho would sehd his sou wüh ua ocrosa the range aa an additional pro tection against the savages. "Will lic Bght?" asked Major Smith. "FightP" replied the landlorcL "Welf 1 should say so. Why he'd n durn sight sooner ïijrlit than eal breakfast." -Y.,1' said the Major, glancing at the breakfast table; "I wouliln't won! ácv, so woulu 1.' l'exag Siftings,