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Updated: May 18, 2025
As Hamilton W. Mabie has said: "We need beauty just as truly as we need truth, for it is as much a part of our lives. We have learned in part the lesson of morality, but we have yet to learn the lesson of beauty."
"What's this?" said Mr. Mabie as they came filing in. "Back already, and only out two hours? Got some meat, too, I see. That's good. Such appetites as you boys are developing threaten to eat us out of house and home soon, unless we eke out with game. Who cut up the elk?" "The boys all took a hand. They wanted to learn," smiled Reddy.
Frank expected to see the stockman drop on one knee and take aim at the bear, now very close to the two dismounted ones. Nothing of the kind occurred. On the contrary, he saw Mr. Mabie thrust the rifle into the hands of the boy, who seemed to seize it eagerly. Jerry had declined to shoot the grizzly when the beast was held by a cordon of riatas.
Hamilton Mabie once said, after his retirement from an active editorial position: "I am so happy that the time has come when I elect what I shall do," which is true; but then he added: "I have rubbed out the word 'must' from my vocabulary," which was not true. No man ever reaches that point. Duty of some sort confronts a man in business or out of business, and duty spells "must."
Mabie, and he's swinging his hat as though just as excited as the balance of the crowd. Whatever it is, he means to tell us!" cried Jerry, his eyes glowing with the nerve-racking anxiety. "Boys, do you want to see some fun?" called the ranchman as he came up. "Always ready for that sort of thing, sir. What's going on?" asked Frank.
Mabie, pointing to the wreaths that ascended above the trees. "All on account of our mishap. We lost three hours that way," remarked Frank, who felt a little provoked over the accident, since he aspired to be a capable canoeman at all times. "Those things will happen to the best of guides at times," consoled the stockman. "I've often been in the drink myself.
The sportsman spirit was strong in his nature, and generally forged to the front. It was Frank, however, who first chanced to spy something that excited his attention. "What is that moving up yonder, Mr. Mabie? There! Look! I declare if it didn't jump straight across from that high rock to the other! Is that a Rocky Mountain sheep, sir?" he asked.
The boys sang many of their school songs, and Bluff was induced to give a recitation, which called forth vociferous applause from the cowboy audience. "I can see very plainly that you are going to make a worthy successor to that lawyer father of yours, Bluff," declared Mr. Mabie as he clapped his hands. "And I expect to live to see him on the Supreme Bench yet," said Jerry seriously.
They were afraid he had been caught in the mad stampede and ground under the hoofs of the steers. Mr. Mabie did not show up until long after midnight. The storm had passed away, and the sky cleared by that time. The boys were sitting up, waiting, none of them thinking of seeking his bed. "Hello, Frank, my lad! I'm mighty glad to find you here, safe and sound.
Once I used to be a crack shot, but lack of experience plays hob with a man's nerves," replied Mr. Mabie, as he sat upon his steed and played with the repeating rifle he held. "I see you are enjoying the situation, boys. Would one of you like to wind him up?" and the ranchman turned to Frank. "I don't believe I would, sir," laughed that worthy. "How about you, Jerry?"
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