6 THE UPPER YUKON 



I've often thought of stopping off at Phila- 

 delphia because I've been told it's a nice, 

 pretty little place, and I do love towns that 

 have lots of flowers; and then I believe you 

 have manufacturers there, and they're so in- 

 teresting and the work-people are so inter- 

 esting, there being so many foreigners among 

 them. It makes the town sort of cosmopoli- 

 tan, as it were, and that's always interesting, 

 so really I must some time stop off and see 

 your little town. I see you and your com- 

 panion have rifles, and I suppose you're going 

 hunting. Oh, how I should like to go along 

 with you, as I delight in adventure," etc., etc. 



So she rattled on, and, like the babbling 

 brook, there was no damming her up. She 

 was particularly savage against those of her 

 sex who would monopolize the dressing-room 

 of a sleeping-car for an hour at a time; she 

 called such women "simple." 



I asked her if her hat had given her much 

 trouble during the night, and she admitted 

 that it had, that she had worried about it all 

 night. I told her that if she went with us 

 she'd have to ride horseback, and astride at 

 that, and with her great hat on her head, with 

 rifle, and a pair of riding breeches, she'd 

 surely be an "interesting" sight to the wild 



