"So back me and Collier had to drop to the heavy grub again. I
noticed about that time that I was seized by a most uncommon and
devastating appetite. I ate until Mame must have hated to see me
darken the door. Afterward I found out that I had been made the
victim of the first dark and irreligious trick played on me by Ed
Collier. Him and me had been taking drinks together uptown regular,
trying to drown our thirst for food. That man had bribed about ten
bartenders to always put a big slug of Appletree's Anaconda
Appetite Bitters in every one of my drinks. But the last trick he
played me was hardest to forget.
"One day Collier failed to show up at the tent. A man told me he
left town that morning. My only rival now was the bill of fare. A
few days before he left Collier had pres
