HABITS, HAUNTS, AND ANECDOTES 



hunter. This abrupt entrance dum- 

 founded the sportsman whose confusion 

 and consternation were pretty evenly 

 balanced at a moment when he needed 

 his wits. Who was the more fright- 

 ened it was hard to tell. At any 

 rate the caller returned to camp post- 

 haste minus his gun, horn, and hat, and 

 with an expression that was indeed 

 pitiable. 



A guide, who had a well-known 

 preacher in the woods for a short time 

 one season, refused to take him the 

 following year. On being asked the 

 reason he said : 



" That man cares only for himself 



and thinks his guide can be wound up 



with a key to work like a machine. 



He may be good enough to preach the 



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