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without skulking or placing a gloom over 

 camp-life you can bet that in addition to being 

 probably " hail fellow well met " he is also 

 genuine^ of the " right stuff." A guide can 

 scarcely be classed among the hunting com- 

 panions of a man's choice, since, if the scene 

 of the yearly hunt varies with the advent of 

 one year upon another, usually there has been 

 little opportunity of prejudging the inherent 

 qualities of the guide hired for the particular 

 hunt. Still, as to guides in general, I may be 

 permitted to remark from my own experi- 

 ences that there are few who will not take 

 advantage of you in one way or another, or be 

 in other respects of meanness too annoying to 

 prove good companions; which seems unnat- 

 ural, considering that hunting, above any 

 other sport, should develop what is " sports- 

 manlike and game " in a man. In the present 

 case my guide's principal occupation was de- 

 vising how to kill time and keep me in the 

 woods as long as possible at four dollars per 

 day. He had a vicious temper, and on several 

 occasions it behooved me to get out of his 

 way to avoid unpleasant consequences. When 



