THE LONG TRAIL 



paredness for the part that "America the 

 Unready" would have to play in the 

 World War, was true to his life creed. 

 For everything he laid his plans in ad- 

 vance, foreseeing as far as was humanly 

 possible each contingency to be encoun- 

 tered. 



For the African expedition he made 

 ready in every way. I was at the time at 

 Harvard, and almost every letter brought 

 some reference to preparations. One day 

 it would be: "The Winchester rifles came 

 out for trial and all of them were sighted 

 wrong. I sent them back with rather an 

 acid letter." Then again: "You and I 

 will be so rusty when we reach Sir Alfred 

 Pease's ranch that our first efforts at 

 shooting are certain to be very bad. In 

 March we will practise at Oyster Bay with 

 the 30-30 until we get what I would call 

 the 'rifle sense' back again, and this will 

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