Dec. 27, 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
827 
A Trip To Yellowstone Park.—IV. 
W E are now in camp at the Upper Geyser 
Basin. Our baggage has been placed in 
our respective tent-rooms, where we can 
get at what we have, even if we cannot get what 
we want on account of leaving so many things 
in storage on entering the Park, but the ladies 
are well pleased, for in each room is a nice table 
with wash bowl and pitcher, with an abundance 
of the purest, softest water, and just above the 
table, at the proper height is a splendid mirror, 
by which with proper manipulation a woman is 
enabled to cover a multitude of physical defects. 
Supper is announced. The fare is all that one 
could ask or expect. The matrons are the very 
embodiment of politeness and courtesy. The gen¬ 
eral matron, Mrs. McCartney, is accompanying 
us on the entire trip, and is in her place to see 
that everything is done that could add the least 
to our comfort or pleasure. The girls and boys, 
who attend to the tents and wait on the tables, 
are mostly from the schools and colleges of the 
Nation, and of course are modest and reserved, 
and intensely given to the work they have in 
hand. You are surprised to find away out here 
a body of such splendid boys and girls. There 
are three objects, as I gathered, that induce them 
here. First, to get the benefit of the health-giving 
climate for the three long summer months; sec¬ 
ond, to have an opportunity to see the many won¬ 
derful things that are to be seen in the National 
By G. S. WYATT 
Park; third, to make the wage that is paid them 
for the services rendered. 1 was exceedingly 
careful to observe very closely the doings of the 
Wylie Camping Company. Their politeness, their 
attention to their guests, their unstinted efforts 
to do all in their power to make their guests 
pleasant and comfortable is beyond criticism that 
would be adverse. I am free to say that they 
give the tourists they handle the worth of the 
money that they charge for the trip through the 
Park." 
Supper over, there seems to be quite a stir 
in the air. It has been announced that the Texas 
delegation will entertain around the camp-fire to¬ 
night. Those who are responsible for the enter¬ 
tainment are all in a nervous state, and we 
imagine that the people from the north, who 
have joined us. are wondering what “good can 
come out of Texas.” The time for the enter¬ 
tainment arrives. Some two or three hundred are 
gathered about the fire. After many slide-split¬ 
ting jokes and stories are worked off, the in¬ 
imitable Dr. H. D. Knickerbocker proceeded to 
introduce the peerless speaker of the Northwest 
Texas Conference, Rev. J. W. Hunt, who made 
a most entertaining and captivating speech, and 
proved to the satisfaction of his entire audience 
that he, somewhere in the ages past, had been a 
most beautiful baby, though they were compelled 
to conclude, from present appearances, that he 
had changed wonderfully from what he had been 
as a baby. After the speech, Dr. Knickerbocker, 
chairman of the entertaining committee, abdicated 
in favor of Rev. Tom Smith, who was to sit as 
judge in the case of the State against Rev. A. B. 
Davidson, the giant preacher, weighing about 
ninety-six pounds, for assaulting the boy preach¬ 
er, Rev. T. H. Morris, weighing about two hun¬ 
dred and seventy-five. The accused and the ac¬ 
cuser were brought into court, face to face, the 
poor little boy preacher with his ear partly bitten 
off and head all bruised and mangled well bound 
up. The lawyers, for both the State and de¬ 
fendant, announced ready for trial; the witnesses 
were sworn, promising that they would not tell 
the truth, nor anything that pertained to the truth 
in the giving of their testimony. For about two 
hours things were kept lively; the witnesses were 
trapped in a most shameful way in the run of 
their testimony, and the lawyers kept the judge 
busy deciding points of law. Such were the 
salvos of laughter and cheering at times that it 
was beyond the power of the judge to maintain 
anything like dignity, but. eventually, he showed 
himself master of the situation, and arising to 
the demands of the occasion, he announced with 
a great deal of authority, he always spoke with 
authority, and not as the scribes and Pharisees, 
that the State had failed to make out its case, and 
he, therefore, dismissed it from the docket. Thus 
YELLOWSTONE BUCKS 
Pkot"graf>h f>y Jo^'ph Sm’th. 
