The Wild Man of the West

March Marston was mad The exact state of madness to which March had attained at the age when we take up his personal history-namely, sixteen-is uncertain, for the people of the backwoods settlement in which he dwelt differed in their opinions on that point. The clergyman, who was a Wesleyan, said he was as wild as a young buffalo bull; but the manner in which he said so led his hearers to conclude that he did not think such a state of ungovernable madness to be a hopeless condition, by any means.