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 Volume XIV

NOVEMBER, 1905

No. 5

EDITOR'S NOTE. — In the November and December issues of The Pacific Monthly Homer Davenport tells in his easy-speaking way of his life, his work and his pastimes, his cartooning, his lecturing, and the incidents which make his career peculiarly picturesque. The great democrat, who was born and raised at Silverton, Oregon, has again become closely identified with the ^Vest through the "farm" of wild fowl and Arabian stallions he had on the "Trail" at the Lewis and Clark Exposition.

I BEGAN drawing as a child. I have neck by a collar, and served as a cushion

draATi all my life. My mother to lie on so that I might draw all day. died when 1 was three and one-half All my boyhood I was drawing, and

years old, but even before her when I was pretty well grown one day I

death they had a little straw tick drew a horse on a pine lioard — I was al-

made for me which fastened around my ways drawing Arabian horses — and the

" 'The Whisky Parade.' The dignified man in the automobile is the distiller, the one in the car- riage is the wholesaler; the retailer follows in a buggy, and all that tikrong behind, some with chains hanging on them, some with handcuffs, are the consumers."