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Show ENGLISH IDEA OF THE WEST. Girl Really Knew as Much About It as Many of Her Countrymen. ' ' An Indiana novelist thinks that one of the severest tests ever put upon his risibles was endured at a London din- , ner table. The American had been seated next a rosy-choeked, gray-eyed English girl, who affected an absorbing and flattering flat-tering Interest in the United States, about which she seemed to have imbibed im-bibed the usual extraordinary Ideas of some Britons, especially with regard re-gard to the perils to "be encountered In the more sparsely settled regions of the west. She tried her best not to be incredulous when assured that things were not really eo bad as she Imagined. "It is reassuring to be told that there are not rattlesnakes In 'l tho gardens," she said with a dazzling smile, "but my cousin wrote mo not long since that he had seen over 20 wigwams In one littlo village. Perhaps," Per-haps," she added, as her companion made no immediate response, "perhaps "per-haps the wigwams are not as venomous venom-ous a6 rattlesnakes." Iilustratod Sunday Sun-day Magazine. |