"Well" said he, "Adams, you seem to stand it pretty well. I hope you and your wife are comfortable?" "Yes," he replied with a laugh; "and you may as well try to be comfortable, too, for your $500 is a goner." "All right," Barnum replied, "I hope you will grow better every day." But the case was hopeless. Adams was dying. When Barnum met him three weeks later at New Bedford his eyes were glassy and his hands trembling, but his courage and will were strong as ever. "This hot weather tells on me," he said, "but I'll last the ten weeks and more, and get your $500." Barnum urged him to quit work, to take half of the $500 and go home. But, no. He would not listen to it. And he did actually serve through the whole ten weeks, and got the $500; remarking, as he pocketed the cash, "Barnum, it's too bad you're a teetotaler, for I'd like to stand treat with you on this." When Adams set out on this last tour, Barnum had a fine new hunting-suit made of beaver-skins. He had procured it for Herr Driesbach, the animal tamer, whom he had engaged to take Adams' place whenever the latter should give out. Adams had asked him to loan him the suit, to wear occasionally when he had great audiences, as his own suit was badly worn. Barnum did so; and at the end of the engagement, as he received the $500, Adams said: "Mr. Barnum, I suppose you are going to give me this new hunting-dress." "Oh, no," Barnum replied, "I got that for your successor, who will exhibit the bears to-morrow, besides, you have no possible use for it." "Now, don't be mean, but lend me the dress, if you won't give it to me, for I want to wear it home to my native village." Barnum could not refuse the poor old man anything, and he therefore replied: "Well, Adams, I will lend you the dress, but you will send it back to me?" "Yes, when I have done with it," he replied, with an evident chuckle of triumph. Barnum thought, "he will soon be done with it," and replied: "That's all right." A new idea evidently struck Adams, for, with a brightening look of satisfaction, he said: "Now, Barnum, you have made a good thing out of the California menagerie, and so have I; but you will make a heap more. So if you won't give me this new hunter's dress, just draw a little writing, and sign it, saying that I may wear it until I have done with it." Barnum knew that in a few days, at longest, he would be "done" with this world altogether, and, to gratify him, he cheerfully drew and signed the paper. "Come, old Yankee, I've got you this time--see. if I hadn't!" exclaimed Adams, with a broad grin, as he took the paper. Barnum smiled, and said: "All right, my dear fellow; the longer you live the better I shall like it,"