Hopeless and bewildered, he left the books, and wandered day after day from farm to hamlet, and from field to tramper's tent, in hopes of finding out the secret for himself.

"It be enough," said he, "to raise the 'Old Adam' inside o' me to 'ave a tramper o' the roads a-snoring in my hay,but I ain't a-going to be called names, into the bargain.

Wearing their wild and primitive costume, they stalk amid the hunters, squatters, trappers, and trampers that frequent the neighbourhood of Fort Gibson, overtopping them in general by a head, but still more surpassing them in the essential virtue of sobriety and temperancea failure in the exercise of which would doubtless soon remove them from the pre-eminence they now enjoy.

This trip has been all a lark to an old tramper like myself.

She's a tramper.

DÉSAPPOINTER, tramper l'espoir de. DÉSAVANTAGE, m., infériorité, préjudice.

FEINDRE, simuler pour tramper.

Evidently some trampers who were fond of climbing had worn it through the rough surface to a point where a good view was to be had, and had stopped there, content with the distance they had gone, and not disposed to try the further ascent.