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It developed that the Yellowstone Park was a place hich Hicks was thoroughly fa made several trips around the Circle He was not only acquainted with points of interest off the beaten track passed unseen by the average tourist, but he suggesteddown a snowbank in a frying-pan--which would not have occurred to any of them

By the ti him like a Baedeker, and he answered every question, however foolish, with a patience and an affability that were most praiseworthy Theircaracious tolerance of a great lady unbending

A disbelief in the ability of the leopard to change its spotsHicks' altered disposition, yet he did his best to convince hiht a trout from the Yellowstone Lake expressly for Mrs Stott's supper

It was a beautiful fish as it lay on the platter, brown, crisp, and ornamented with lemon Mr Hicks offered it ht to Salome

"Thank you, Hicks," said Mrs Stott, kindly

"I hope you'll like it, ma'am," he murmured, humbly

The mark of favour seemed to bear out Mrs Stott's contention that inferiors should not be treated as equals in any circumstances Noith her fork in the fish, Mrs Stott looked around the table and inquired graciously if she ht not divide it with so, who looked at it so wistfully that Mrs Stott lost no tiusto and declared after tasting it: "It is delicious, si another with quite the sa herself to Mr Hicks, as standing with ar in the water?"

"I presume so," he replied, respectfully, and added: "The trout in the Yellowstone Lake are said to be very nourishing"

It was natural that Mrs Stott should feel a little flattered by this evidence of partiality even fro eachso she could not refrain froe froly, "that I shall not eat the head and fins, even"

"I wish I was in such favour," Mrs Budlong declared, enviously