70 The Hunting Field With Horse and Hound 



Buckley (Kansas) on your line. Would you mind having 

 the wire touched to your station agent at Buckley for more 

 positive information?" Then we went to another railroad 

 to make arrangements for the annual Jack rabbit round-up. 

 When we went in the manager, at the sight of the parson, 

 held up both hands. Seeing this the parson, pointing his 

 forefinger at the official, said, "We want three sleepers next 

 INIonday night and a dining car for Lemar." (Lemar being 

 a small station with no hotel accommodations it was necessary 

 to take bed and board in this way for about one hundred 

 persons for the annual hunt, with a baggage-car to bring 

 back the game). "It is yours to command," said the genial 

 official. I mention this to give the reader a little fuller in- 

 troduction to the parson and an insight into western hos- 

 pitahty. They go about it in a way that is both charming 

 and delightful. Parson Uzel is the Heniy Ward Beecher 

 of Colorado. 



"Been here nineteen years," said the parson. "When I 

 was ready to build this church (a very fine modern building 

 seating over a thousand), I wrote a letter to some of my 

 sporting friends, ranchmen and miners, and they all responded 

 nobly. I went to the bank presidents of the city, and asked 

 each for a thousand dollars, and I never asked twice. The 

 contributions came in from ten cents to ten thousand dollars. 

 Then," said the parson, opening a door that led into 

 the beautiful audience room of the church, "tliis is the 

 result." 



The writer never asked the denomination and he doubts 

 if either the church or the parson has any creed, but he is 

 inclined to tliink whatever name it goes by, it is an every day 

 denomination of every day religion, conducted on practical 

 lines, by a practical man Avho reaches the very class that most 

 sectarian churches reijel. 



Speaking of practical religion, when President Roosevelt 



