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death, and in fact killed 'em in every way you can think of, except talking fem to death and when I want to try that style I will send for you-hey! Cap.?"

Your correspondent was obliged to check the rising smile on the countenances of William and Jack, by offering as a substitute another kind-one that is moist, and easy to take when unmuzzled gradually from the mouth of a bottle. This proceeding having been attended to, I said: “Mr. Cody, feeling certain, as you do, that you could wipe out this band of Modocs in a short time, why don't you offer your services to the government and take a band in their extermination?”

"Jack and I was talking that very thing over when you came in," replied Bill, “ I told him that just as soon as our engagements was all filled on the stage we would csalt down our 'suids' somewhere, procure an outfit, and take a ran out to the lava beds and sce if we couldn't get enough Indian hair to stuff a rocking-chair for the old woman."I asked,
"Oh, not many; we have played New York until we forced Edwin Booth to go West: He said it would not do for him to try to back against us, and he was right. My idea (said William) is to go to New York next winter, and show the play-goers what real acting is.I propose to

RUN BOOTH AND FECHTER INTO NEW JERSEY by playing Shakespeare right, through, from beginning to end, with Ned Buntline and Texas Jack to support me I shall do Hamlet in a buckskin suit, and when my father's ghost appears, "doomed Tor a certain time, &c., I shall say to Jack, “Rope the cuss in, Jack!” and unless the lasso breaks, the ghost will have to come. As Richard the Third I shall fight with pistols and hunting-knives. In Romeo and Juliet I shall put a half-breed squaw on the balcony, and make various other interpretation of Shakespeare's words to suit myself."
“But about this Indian, business, Bill would you take the contract so exterminate the it you were well paid for your services
“ I Don’t care much about the pay,” replied Bill, but after we get through with the lemtimste
INDIAN DRAMA,
If the government will call, In every soldier, mule driver and peace commissioner within a hundred miles of the lava beds, Jack and I - who need a little recreation-will take a scout around that section, and if 'clean em out is the orders, we won't leave a pappoose a week old."
I suggested that the two borderers better get up a company of frontier settlers and hunters to join them, but Bill laughed at the idea, and said it was "harder work to kill and drag of twenty Indians on the stage every night than to perform the same job in real earnest" I then left the two actors and hunters, confident that they would settle Captain Jack's breakfast, it they get out to do it. - RICHMOND.