. Rod, gun, and palette in the high Rockies : being a record of an artist's impressions in the land of the red gods . critic of current magazine fictiondealing with range life. The point of his criticism was directedmost forcibly against the idiom and slang put into the mouthsof his cattlemen by the author of Wolfville Days. Cowmen,vide Counter, did not habitually use slang in that reckless andsuperfluous way. In fact, their speech, even allowing for thepeculiar nomenclature of their calling, was far freer from per-versions of the language than was that of most city was not an unco
. Rod, gun, and palette in the high Rockies : being a record of an artist's impressions in the land of the red gods . critic of current magazine fictiondealing with range life. The point of his criticism was directedmost forcibly against the idiom and slang put into the mouthsof his cattlemen by the author of Wolfville Days. Cowmen,vide Counter, did not habitually use slang in that reckless andsuperfluous way. In fact, their speech, even allowing for thepeculiar nomenclature of their calling, was far freer from per-versions of the language than was that of most city was not an uncommon thing to find men of education ridingthe ranges, but even outside of these the typical rangeman wouldbe, to the atmosphere-seeking romance hunter, fed on mag-azine dope, disappointingly restrained, not to say simple in hisspeech. Mr. Counter, born in Kansas, raised in Montana, on therange all his life, and Mr. Jay Whitman, born in Missouri, inthe West since 1881, equally a rangeman, may, it is assumed, betaken as fairly typical examples of cattleman and ranchman 90 Rod, Gun, and Palelte in the High Rockies. respectively. In theirspeech, save for a few elisionsand neutralized negatives,occurs less of slang and(ewer perversioni than are noticeable among many pre-sumably cultured city dwell-ers. Of the peculiar slangof their calling, the magazine-bred range idiom and phras-ing, there ll none. In facttheir language is almostclassic in its directness andsimplicity, and except to agrammatical pragmatist. aspure as it well can be. To the artist, playingsolitaire, comes William:Oh. Jim. when is a wolfBusiness of cogitation by William not a here, wait a minute,and from the artist— Now. now. William, eat) ; take your time; get that straight,now. Oh. ah. 1 have it. When is a wolf a f« I he artist reflects deeply: I give it up. When is a wolf a lo\. Mr. Bom When he wont be trapped* responds William. I he house glint, and William with the successful joke-makcrs just pride, elucidate
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