EASTERN LADY (traveling in Montana)—”The idea of calling this the ‘Wild-West’! Why, I never saw such politeness anywhere.”

COWBOY—”We’re allers perlite to ladies, ma’am.”

EASTERN LADY—”Oh, as for that, there is plenty of politeness everywhere. But I refer to the men. Why, in New York the men behave horribly towards one another; but here they treat one another as delicately as gentlemen in a drawing-room.”

COWBOY—”Yes, ma’am; it’s safer.”—Abbie C. Dixon.