Making Amends

On tnv overiariü trip to San Francisco I was trcated to the exhibition of a rough ranchman put very ranch on his good behavior," writos a New York lady visiting California. ' 'We had got out at one of the stations in Nevada for dinner. I have forgotten the name of the place, if ever I noted it, but if it wasn't l'overty Flat it was misnamed. Not feeling hungry I leaned back in my chair, idly looking at the sandhilU through the open window opposite, unmindful of the knives and platas around me. A rough voice at my very ear startled me f rom my d reara. " 'Here, why the heil don't you pass me the butter?' "It came from the nearer one of two stalwart, sunburned men, who seemed to be ranchmen or miners. They sat beside me in dusty, hightop boots and rough peajacket3, with their broad brimmed hats on, and were eating as if they had long arreara to make up in the way of square meals. "Imagine niy astonishment at such a summons, whieh I have no doubt was addressed to me. But I was too much intimidated to be indignant, but hastily handed him not only the butter, but evervthing within my reach. At this he looked around at me for the first time, and lus look of amazement showed thut he was worse taken back than I had been. He did not thank me, but took hls hat olï and put it under hia chair, and liudging his companion, said in an awestriekea stage per: ". say, Jim, take your nat off; she's a lady.' "Then, evidently wishing to mako íurther amends for his discourtesy, he again turned to me: "Say, marm, hev yer ever seen a live wild cat? 'Cause ef yer ain't, l've got one outside here I oatched mysclf, an' 111 take ye out after we get throusrh eatin' an' show it ter ye. ' '■I thanked him, and said I would be vciy glad to see it, as I had never seen one. After dinner, having still ton minutes to spare, we went to seo the wild cat. It was in a rough woorien box witti wooden bars, crouehing as íar 'k as it could get, witti lts ey .'íeaming like coals of fire. hen one of ,-■'" ' ofíored it a piece of meat on iï end of a stick, it made a spring that seemed as if it would break through the bars; but the stick had a sharp polnt that made it beat a hasty retreat. though not befoie it had securcd the meat, over ■which it snarled viciously. Jts owner told me hehad brousht it to the station to send to a friend who kcpt a 'club house,' whatever that is, in ('ai-son City. I asked him to toll us how he caught it, but before he could answer the conductor callod cut, 'Alt aboard.' As the train got under way I looked back and saw my two friends liying across the country on their mustangs."