offered them a smoke, smiling the while 

 at their discomfiture. 



Both his face and hands were scarred 

 from many bar room encounters, and he 

 unblushingly dated most of his remarks 

 by the period when he 'was rusticatin' 

 in the Pen/ He had brought his own 

 bed and saddle and pack horses on the 

 trip so that he could ' cut loose ' from 

 the party in case ' things got too hot ' for 

 him. 



Such was the cook. 



Immediately after breakfast Nimrod 

 and our host equipped themselves for 

 the day's hunt, and went off in opposite 

 directions, like Huck Finn and fom Saw- 

 yer on the occasion of their memorable 

 first smoke. 



Our camp was beside a rushing brook 

 in a little glade that was tucked at the 

 foot of towering mountains where no 



