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LD Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would some day make his fortune. There'd been some Boston people out to see it: And experts said that deep down in the mountain The mica sheets were big as plate glass windows. He'd like to take me there and show it to me.

"I'll tell you what you show me. You remember You said you knew the place where once, on Kinsman, The early Mormons made a*settlement And built a stone baptismal font outdoors — But Smith, or some one, called them off the mountain To go West to a worse fight with the desert. You said you'd seen the stone baptismal font. Well, take me there."

"Huh, that old bath-tub, what is that to see? Let's talk about it."

"To shut you up I'll tell you what I'll do: I'll find that fountain if it takes all summer, And both of our united strengths, to do it."