Biographical Notice 



the pioneer level, and disregard the 

 small elegancies of dress and man- 

 ners which you can afterwards easily 

 resume, because you have not laid 

 them aside long enough to forget 

 them. But I, who have been for 

 years constantly in the field, would 

 have lost my good habits altogether 

 if I had not taken every possible 

 opportunity to practice them. We 

 don't dine this way every day, but 

 we do so whenever we can." I had 

 abundant opportunity in after years 

 to see King at work as well as at 

 rest ; and I never knew a man more 

 eager, tireless and reckless in field- 

 work above or underground, while 

 at the same time he maintained 

 always the instinct and practice of 

 refined manners. It was, indeed, 

 almost invariably his custom to have 

 with him a personal attendant, who 

 looked after his clothing, etc. One 

 such, who was with him for years, 

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