The Sagebrusher

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.