Why, I went to a party one night after I had been here only a few weeks and they played a game in which every man in the place kissed me." "Gracious! Please tell me when any such games are likely to be proposed and I'll stay home," said Betty.
"I have learned to get along very well by simply making the best of it," continued Lydia.

"And to tell the truth, I have learned to respect these rugged fellows.

They are uncouth; they have no manners, but their hearts are honest and true, and that is of much greater importance in frontiersmen than the little attentions and courtesies upon which women are apt to lay too much stress." "I think you speak sensibly and I shall try and be more reasonable hereafter.

But, to return to the man who spoiled my ride.

He, at least, is no frontiersman, notwithstanding his gun and his buckskin suit.