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 particular about the clothes a man wears, so long as he understands his business, an' I'd make piles of money, too; 'cause why I'd work fur less'n the reg'lar hotel guides. See?"

"Yes, I see; but how long would it be before the regular guides would run you out, the same as the Mount Airy people did? They would make the country so hot for you that you couldn't stay there."

"Suppos'n they tried that little game on?" answered Matt, laying down his rifle long enough to shake both his huge fists in the air. "Ain't that somethin' that two can play at? I'd break up the business of guidin' in less'n two seasons."

"How would you do it?"

"Yes, I would," Matt went on. "If I only had a boat that was easy to slip around in an' light to tote over the carries, I'd make the folks who come there fur fun so sick of them woods that they wouldn't never come there no more; then what would become of them two big hotels when there wasn't no custom to run 'em?"