24£ WALL STREET AND THE WILDS 



I got so that I could crack the whip without 

 cracking my head, but it never was safe for by- 

 standers. 



Upon the frontiers and in the wilds I have met 

 many rough classes of men with not a few of ill- 

 repute as murderers, but I have never been as- 

 saulted nor can I recall any insult from such 

 people. Courtesy has been customary, foul lan- 

 guage rebuked by companions, and even profan- 

 ity modified in my presence. Of course I haven't 

 made the fool mistake known as "putting on 

 airs. 



From Caddo we took a stage for a nearly two 

 hundred mile ride to Fort Sill. Excepting short 

 stops for meals at stage stations and an hour at 

 Governor Harris's of the Chickasaw nation, the 

 ride was continuous. Ward with an itinerant 

 preacher slept in the body of the stage while my 

 couch was in the boot on the mail bags beneath 

 the feet of the driver. 



We were welcomed royally at Fort Sill and 

 were likelv to be killed with kindness so far as 

 our hunting hopes were concerned. Entertain- 



