One's rather safer in our homestead than a Montreal hotel; but Mabel has lived in the cities and the Wild West tradition dies hard.

As a matter of fact, there never was a Wild West in Canada." He opened the pistol.

"You put the cartridge shells in like this--" "You can show Agatha how it works; I won't touch the thing," Mrs.Farnam declared.

"She's something of a sport, but I'm a womanly woman, except when I teach school." Farnam laughed.

"On the whole, it might be better to leave the cartridges out.