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possession, so that he might recognise him, and 

 " shoot at sight," to avenge some relative who had 

 been fired through ; but these are the mere awe- 

 struck whisperings of his delighted admirers. One 

 hears a deal about shooting in the States, but 

 unless you go to a low bar, a gambling saloon, 



or a State lottery, purporting to " get up a ," 



you will see precious little of it 



' Buffalo Bill has two styles of dress : the first, 

 which is the one which he usually wears in the 

 Settlements, is of beautifully dressed buckskin, 

 decorated with fringes and lappets innumerable, 

 and gorgeous beyond description, but, as he well 

 knows, worse than useless in the plains ; then he, 

 being a member of the House of Representatives 

 of his State, thinks fit to assume, at times, a 

 civilian and civilised garb — short black jacket, black 

 pants, and thin kid side-spring boots, w^hich makes 

 him look like the aforesaid Vandyke nobleman 

 trying to disguise himself as a steamboat steward. 

 For some inscrutable reason he delighteth to hunt 

 in this peculiar rig, adding thereto, however, a 

 white Texan sombrero, which, when the leaves 

 thereof are tied tightly down by a handkerchief 

 knotted under his chin, assumes a prudish and 

 poke- bonnet -like appearance which entirely unpre- 

 pares you for the noble face and flashing eyes 

 which suddenly appear at the end of its tunnel 

 when he turns the apparatus end on towards you. 

 By the way, the first time that I met Bill and 



