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Show " 'Mr. Theodore, this here's Ui finest camp you ever was in, ain't it?" "But I don't know about t'n .t wow, and I don't believe the President thinks so either. We had a bt:cr time out West." Mrs. Sewall. the guide's wife, raid: "What I have enjoyed most is seelnjp. Mr. Theodore. I never met ary of his children until I came to Washington, and this has been a great pleasure. I can't tell you how kind Mrs. Roosevelt has been to me. We have been to lunch and dinner at the White HoiiFe. and met Miss Alice and the two little boys. "Mrs. Roosevelt knew all about. BUI and me. She knew the names of my children, and remembered all the little things that used to happen on the ranch. I think Miss Alloc is very much like her father. She is fond of outdoors, out-doors, and asked me Just the same questions that he used to." foLD GUIDE'S ESTIMATE OF j ROOSEVELT, j Washington Special to American. " 'Well. Bill,' Mr. Theodore said to me, after the reception last night, 'how do you like a reception at the White House? Do you think you would like to go into society?' "And I said to him: 'I'm glad I come down and that I saw it once, but I'd rather go fishin'.' " "The President laughed, and then he said: 'I'll tell'you something, Bill, but don't let on. I think I would, too.' " William W'ingate Sewall of Island Falls. Me., was telling about his visit to hla friend. President Roosevelt. The President calls William Wlngate Sewall "Bill." Sewall is the Maine guide the President Presi-dent asked to come to Washington and see him. A day or two ago Eill came. He brought with him his wife, his daughter, his son and his intimate friends and neighbors, Fleetwood Pride. Mrs. L. A. Pride, Wilmot E. Pride and Charles Dowe. They are staying at the Oxford hotel, two blocks from the White House, and are as much the President's guests as if they were lodged in the White House Itself. They attended the reception to Congress last night and were among the receiving party. Guide's Estimate of President. "What do I think of Washington?" said Bill. "Well, I will have to get home and quietly think rf all over. What Mr. Theodore said" about goin' fishin is a Joke, you know. He never could keep still enough to fish. He likts to get out with a gun. "I knew him when he was stoop-shouldered, stoop-shouldered, a peeky boy of 18, and he always liked to go out with a gun, but was no good at fishin. Don't you know, he never shot a deer until after he was 21, Just because I could not get him to wait long enough." "Did the President keep the horns?" Bill was asked. "It didn't have no horns," he said. "It was nothin' but a fawn. Maybe he's got the skin, but it didn't have no horns. "I went up in the monument yesterday, yester-day, and the men down on the ground didn't look no bigger than my finger. I have been on- mountains and looked down at things, but they didn't seem like that. The neighbors are Just waiting wait-ing for us to get home and tell them all about it, but I don't think I can tell them any thing- until I have thought, about It for a week. This thing is different. dif-ferent. I can walk thirty miles at home and be fresh, but every night here I am Just played out, and there ain't no hlUs to climb. These cities make things different. dif-ferent. I tol the President when be first took me through the White House: |