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use and from contact with the contents of his sad- 

 dle-bags. Whenever he went on a hunt he carried 

 one or more of these little volumes, which he would 

 take out and read from time to time when there was 

 nothing else to do. He never seemed to waste a 

 moment. 



His pride in the library was evident, and the 

 fondness with which he brought forth the books 

 was the fondness of an honest enthusiast. 



"Some people don't consider Longfellow a great 

 poet, but I do," he said, as he showed a little vol- 

 ume of the poet's works. "Lowell is represented 

 here, but I think, toward the end of his life, he 

 became too much Bostonian. The best American," 

 he said later, "is a Bostonian who has lived ten 

 years west of the Mississippi." 



He then showed us his work-box, a compact lea- 

 ther case containing pads of paper, pens, lead 

 pencils, and other requirements of the writer. I 

 did not see a type-writing machine such as we car- 

 toonists have so often represented in our cartoons 

 of Mr. Roosevelt in Africa. But, then, cartoonists 

 are not always strictly accurate. 



Later on he spoke of the lectures he was to de- 

 liver in Berlin, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in 

 Oxford the following spring. I told him how sur- 

 prised I had been to hear that he had prepared these 

 lectures during the rush of the last few weeks of his 

 administration. He said that he probably would be 

 regarded as a representative American in those 

 lectures and that he wanted to do them just as well 



