charging for his services. Old J.D. got himself into a fine scrape a few years ago, he decided that the crape in the Prado de must be of a superior quality & no smaller for a hunt, he built a fine flag but it was some guards heard the shot and surrounded him, the old fellow ran --- into a ravine piled with huge boulders, when he heard them approaching, and hid himself so completely that the farmers could not find him. So they tried a ruse which worked successfully. Knowing that he could probably hear them, they called out that it was merely to hunt for the old man, & that they would go back. They withdrew into the forest but kept the ravine surrounded & after about this J.D. ventured out only to be caught by the farmers. I think He was buried several times carried mechanics M.G., for some days he remained with --- --- --- --- --- but it is crazy & did a lot of work and eventually he recovered. He was almost sentenced to a year in an asylum for terrible murder, coping but upon the intervention of Salmon Jensen, he it was committed and except for the fact that he had to go about with a wooden thing around his neck for several