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abruptness, hauteur, or condescension, according to his in- 

 dividual disposition or the temper he may be in ; but 

 whatever way he may treat him, he permits it to be plainly 

 seen he considers himself very much the superior being. 

 Such a manner is the natural result of the construction of 

 English society, and in England is not offensive. But the 

 true frontiersman will allow no such pretension, for such he 

 considers it. Self-respect and independence of character 

 are his leading characteristics. Acknowledge the honour 

 which he considers due to the dignity of his manhood by 

 treating him frankly as an assumed equal ; let him see by 

 your manner, you consider, as he does, that wealth, titles, 

 and social position are accidents, that truth, fortitude, and 

 courage are the essentials in questions of relative worth 

 between man and man, and he will do much to serve you. 

 '' Put on airs," as he calls it though, unrecognisable fact to 

 him, you are really acting quite naturally, having no intention 

 to offend or assume superiority and he will feel insulted, 

 and when recounting the interview, say : " I am as good a 

 man as he is." From his standpoint he possibly thinks him- 

 self a better ; and he will probably add, but expressing him- 

 self with a difference, putting the idea into the shortest, 

 plainest, most forcible, most Saxon form : " The individual 

 be condemned. The individual can depart unto Hades." On 

 the other hand, the moneyed foreigner in pursuit of sport 

 is just the man for unprincipled border idlers and roughs 

 men who live anyhow and anywhere and on everybody ; 

 men with but one leading principle, and that not to earn 

 an honest living by work, though they often work hard 

 enough at villainy. By the nature of his vocation a bird 



