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stretched out, while the dogs barked
furiousiy all around it, I
Suddenly the bear sat up with a .
jump. and frightened all the dogs SO /
that they nearly turned back somer-
saults.
At this camp there is a nice, tame |
pussy-cat which lies out here all the |
time, catching birds, mice, or lizards: |
but very friendly with any party OF
hunters which happens along.
p. 81 have. just killed a bear; /
have written Kermit about it.
Shooting the Bear.
En- Route to Washington,
October %, 1907.
DEAR TED:
bad old father is coming back
after a successful trip. 1t was sue
cess in every way, including the bear
hunt, but in the case of the bear hunt
we only just made it successful and
no more. for it was not until the
twelfth day of steady hunting that 1
got my bear. Then / shot it in the
most approved hunters style, going up
on it in a cane brake as it made a
walking bay before the dogs. / also
killed deer-more by luck than any
thing else, as it was a difficult shot
Quentin s Exquisite Jest"
White House, Jan. 2, 1908.
DEAR ARCHIE:
Friday night Quentin had three
friends, including the little Taft boy
to spend the night. They passed an
evening and night of delirious rapture,
| it being a continuous roughhouse save
when they would fall asleep for an
hour or two from sheer exhaustion L
interfered but once, and that was to
| stop an exquisite jest of Quentin's,
which consisted in procuring sui
phureted hydrogen to be used on the
| other, boys when they got into bed.
/ They played hard, and it made me
realize how old had grown and how
/ very busy / had been these last few
/ years, to find that they had grown so
| that was not needed in the play Do
1 you recolIect how we all of us used
| to play hide-and- go seek in the White
| House? and have obstacle races down
the hall when you brought in your
/ friends?
4 Mother continues much attached to
Scamp, who is certainly cunning
little dog. He is very affectionate, but
so exceedingly busy when we are ut
on the grounds, that we only catch
,
speed from one end of teh place to
the other. The kitchen cat and he
have strained relations, but have not
yet come TO open hostility
While House, Jan. 81, 1908.
DEAR ARCHIE:
Scamp is really a cunning little dog
: but he takes such an extremely keer
interest in hunting, and is so active
THAT when he is out on the grounds
with US we merely catch glimDses OF
him as he flashes by. The other night
after the judicial reception when we
went upstairs to supper the kitchen
cat suddenly appeared parading dowr
the hall with great friendliness, anC
was forthwith exiled to her proper
| home again.
Tom Pinch.
White House, Feb. 23 1908
1 DEAREST KERMIT:
| / quite agree with you about Ton
Ii Pinch. He is a despicable kind O
l character; just the kind of characte
Dickens liked, because he had himsel
| a thick streak of maudlin sentimen
| tally of the kind that, as somebod.
| phrased it, made him wallow make,
| in the pathetic 1t always interest
| me about Dickens to think how mucl
t.rst-class work he did and hom al
most all OF it was mixed up with ever
kind of cheap, second-rate matter.
| ! am very fond of him. There are in
; Vulnerable characters that he has ere
ated which symbolic vices, virtue:
fo1lies. and the like almost as well a
the characters in Bunyan; and there
fore / think the wise thing to do
| simply to skip the bosh and twaddl
/ and yulgarity and untruth, and get tn
| benefit out of the rest. OF course on
| fundamental difference betwee
| Thackeray and Dickens is that Thack
cray was a gentleman and Dicken
| was not But man might do som
mighty good work and not be a gen
tleman in any sense.
"Martin Chuzzelwit."
White House, Feb. 30. 1908.
DEAREST KERMIT:
] Of course entirely agree with yo
I about Martin Chuzzlewit- But TIL
| point seems to me that the prepostei
| Gus perversion of truth and the Ill
7 nature and malice Of the book are {
consequence chiefly as indicatin
Dickens own character. about which
care not rap; whereas, the charae