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believing that he was another confidence man, told him that it 

 was none of his business and made some other remarks and the 

 cow-boy's answer was: "My boy, you have been badly brought 

 up and I am ashamed." I fired up at once and told him that the 

 boy was better brought up than he was himself, and there was 

 some discussion and I asked my son why he spoke so brusquely 

 to the man, and he said that he had thought the man another 

 confidence man, and I explained about our encounter in St. Paul 

 and there was quietness again. 



About twelve o'clock in the night, I became very sick and 

 went to the wash-room and relieved my stomach and, while there, 

 must have collapsed, as I remember nothing further until early in 

 the morning, when J. B. Tyrrell, found me lying on the platform 

 at Moose Jaw, where we had been ordered to change trains. 

 Tyrrell immediately had me taken to the pullman and telegraphed 

 to Swift Current, where there was a doctor, to have him in 

 attendance when we reached there. It was now discovered that 

 twenty-two others were poisoned also, but only two, besides myself, 

 were in need of the doctor's attention. 



When we reached Swift Current, a gentleman from Calgary 

 was taken in hand by the doctor and I was left alone in the wash- 

 room of the pullman and I became deathly sick and drank whole 

 glasses of water and vomited constantly. Every glass of water 

 that I drank helped me on the road to recovery, because each 

 time I drank, I vomited again and, when the doctor came to see 

 me, I was quite well and almost ready to eat again. After a day 

 or two at Calgary, we went on to Morley and made our first camp 

 near the Bow River. After staying there for a few days we 

 went on to Kananaskis and then to Canmore, where we climbed 

 the mountains and got a great many mountain plants and my 

 son caught a number of butterflies. Then we moved on to Banff 

 and had our first view of the hot springs and got some of the 

 crystals that were then being taken from the cave. Our next 

 move was to Castle Mountain, where we botanized and climbed 

 a number of mountains, amongst others, Castle Mountain, which 

 is north of the Bow River, Copper Mountain, to the south, also, 

 where there was a mine at that time. After some time there, we 



