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Rh an intelligent man, and when at the supper table that night, lie mentioned the matter to Uncle Kit again of having his life published. On turning his eyes to the refined gentleman, he said: "I would have you understand that when 1 say anything I mean it. I told you in plain English last evening that I would not submit to anything of that kind, and now don't compel me to talk too harsh, but please drop the subject at once."

Mr. Favor, who had been watching very close all this time, could sec at once there was no use in talking any more about the subject and turned the conversation as quickly as possible and there was no more said about it.

That night while in a conversation with Buffalo Hill he told Uncle Kit and I that he would be going out to Bent's Fort in a few days and proposed that we join him there and have buffalo hunt before I went away. We promised that we would inert him.

The next morning Uncle Kit and I mounted our horses to start on our return trip to Taos, and when we rode up in front of the store, Mr. Favor told me to come in and Col. W. F. Cody. "Buffalo Bill."