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myself; and if they keep up their foreign style as they have 

 done, they won't get any nearer to a buffalo than they have 

 so far for the fortnight for which they engaged us." As 

 two friends and myself were in the region on a buffalo-hunt, 

 we asked the gentlemen to join us for a day or two if they 

 wished, and to leave their teams and guides in camp, and 

 we hinted that they could kill all the animals they would 

 care to; but they, in a frozenly polite manner, refused 

 our invitation, on the ground that they had their own tents 

 and guides, and could not accept favors from unknown 

 strangers. We became frozen ourselves after that assertion, 

 inasmuch as we thought it to be too egotistical in manner ; 

 so we left them at once, and, on returning to town a week 

 afterward, heard that they had come back without killing a 

 buffalo, although they had seen them in immense numbers. 



I met the same party subsequently in Wyoming, and all 

 expressed themselves delighted with their luck in that re- 

 gion ; and some became as enthusiastic as their temper- 

 ament would permit them in describing the quantity of 

 game they had killed, and the wonderful scenery of the 

 country. Their good fortune was due, however, to their 

 former experience ; for they soon learned that Western 

 men cared very little for mere titles or wealth, and paid 

 no more personal respect to their owners, when they were 

 arrogant, than they would to the simplest citizen. They 

 were, in fact, sometimes spoken of in the most disrespect- 

 ful manner in their own hearing; and this taught them 

 that they were not of as much consequence as they deemed 

 themselves to be ; so, accepting the facts, they made them- 

 selves as agreeable to those who accompanied them as cult- 

 ured gentlemen could, and the result was such an amount 

 of pleasure and successful hunting as they had never antic- 

 iputecl. I mention this incident for the purpose of show- 

 ing how differently foreign tourists are treated by those 

 very independent guides, when they, in the language of the 

 latter, " put on lugs," and when they are genial, and act the 

 part of " hail fellows well met." 



In selecting guides for a protracted hunt, a good plan 



