The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-02-21
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 i DER SiR -Lsarnias easas!ly that yov are soOn so become of age and also h visit America, the hnt-hed ot freedom and AatbaEic splendue, take nay pen l. hand to ask yoa to ha my guest sex snnmeE, during the pickeFel season.. a Hudson on the beautiful S,. Croix, ans to tender you the freedom of my double barrel shot gua during the prairie chickeu holocaust at my home. Have made the pickerel and prairie hen a study for many years and au quite familiar with their habits. With me, therefore, you will be perfectly safe You will be surprised oa reaching the unlttd States, no dona,, to 6nd large Easnee. ei young men who will claim that they are Englishmen oi noble h.ssA Most of these, howeser. are base imita tons. Do not loan them money on an, aceoanI They are, generally speaking young men whose brains arc adultesated and who have leA their purses at home on the p'ano They wiIi probably offer to lntrodass you to good society iu America, but you will do well to evade them. They will wind up by ask. ing you to loan them SIoo temporarily.
 You will do veil to tie to people who talk what is known as United States san- guage, and whose cioshes do not it them too soon. We are plain people here, try- ing to do right in our weak and feeble way, and we will make is as cheerful for you as possible. Your being q crowned head will not prevent your having good limes so far as we are concerned, You are not to blame for being cre~ned head. in,s ,s the isna oi ;,o4tsY, s..s ~e believe in oeing hcss.saAle and cour'eous to al! foreigners, It may he well for you to be nalurahyed as soon as possible after your arrival ia New York if you wish to enter the best political cir cles but. SO far as the hteSau Is con. cerned, we shall not require t. Your political opinions will DO, be pfIed mo by us. You will be perfectly welcome to such ideas in this respect as you may have brought with you and paid duty on
 You will fad in America . certain air of savage refncmen, which will, no doubt, surprise you at first, and you will wonder how we got h. This. however, ou will find chiedy In the larger cities You wsll no. find t where 1 am. never allew refinement to interfere with my fun and crush out my young life. Fly to me when you get weary of social twaddie and fIills. When your swallow.tail coa' gets too binding under the arms, come out to the broad and boundless vest and ~e will put on our old clothes and enjoy ourselves. know where tue sREs5- ~ossn grows Tankesi and the wild hen hatches her young. You can roll up an old I air of my pantaloons about three feet and wear them V you will be careful of them
 Come among us, aad, if you like the country, you may want to stay. Deacon Bullard Of the Northwestern road, wiites me that he woald be tickied 10 death to locate you on a homestead claim only a little way from Fort p.erce. Pc would be like father 10 you. He would help you to fad good clam, and he would show you how to play high low jack" Deacon Bullard is highly accomplished.
 Hyou come west am sure you will like us We arc not cold and naughty, as you may have supposed. We are easy to get acquainted with and sociabis in the extreme. lf a foreigner comes among us and aims to do wha, Is right, we feel like giving him a chance.
 Perhaps it would be well for you ,o cone to my house at once. and will give you some valuable points on Ameri- csn society 90 that you will feel perfectly al home in our best circles or course, you do not want anything that ~osld seem ou,re and bon voyage. ] can teii you in twenty minutes. so tha, you can go into the best society and not attract attention.
 Remember me kindly to your parents and your grandmother, for whom l en- .ertain the highest regard. Tell them that hope |, write to them soon. and my delay 70 tar has not been through any coldness on my part, but rather oa account Of press of other business. With the literary work have to do this winter, l cannot keep up my correspondence with foreign p overs. The fact is thu. the royal family is spreading so that I've got to neglect some of its members or hire man.