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Show j WOLF HUNT WAS POSTPONED j After Roosevelt's Little Dissertation as to the Easiest Way to Avoid Trouble. One lime when on a western tour tile ranchmen w horn he was visiting i wanted to entertain Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt in the way thai best pleased him and lie suggvsted a ride. The host and oilier guests agreed and proposed j a wolf hunt as an addendum. I "I'd like nothing hotter." said Roosevelt, Roose-velt, "hut it's Sunday." "Nobody will know," said one of the newspaper men in the party. "We won't say anything about it." "My dear fellows," said the colonel, "there are two .ways of keeping out of trouble. One is to do nothing that could by any possibility make trouble trou-ble for you. The otlier is to conceal the things you have done which might make trouble. The first way is the simpler. If you act by it you never even want to tell a lie." And there was no wolf hunt that day. |