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A SHOWMAN IN CLOVER

Buffalo Bill Lionized at the Swell Receptions and High Teas of London.

Fashionable London is now dividing its attentions between Buffal Bill and the picture galleries. The long haired wonder of the west takes to big llouizing with a charming ease, which quite delights the "dear duchesses" who have not reveled in what one of the called a "real raw American" since Joaquin Miller made his slouch hat and high boots conspicuos in Rotten Row as well as the swell kettledrums of other days. Joaquin only sung of scalp liftin; Cody has "raised hair" with the actual knife instead of the steel pen. He has a sort of semi-[?] courtiness and Rocky Mountain dandyishness which make him a picturesque figure anywhere, and his old acquanitances among Englishment of the nobility take him around as they would a kind of Siam. He has been to a great many receptions, high teast, musicals, and sotme dinners at the swell clubs. He calls them all "parties: with a gentle innocence that amazes and dleights. He was shown through the house of commons last Evening by Col. Hughes-Hallet, and rewarded his conductor and friends by many quaint comparisons with that poistion of his career as a western legislator which secured him the great American title of "Hon".

A chat with him this afternoon borugh out a curious bit of his experience, showing how similar human naure is everywhere...

"I thought," he said, "that I had killed a few bear and buffalo and mountain she and antelope and had a few interesting scuffles with man and beast in my time; but the accounts of wholesale slaughter and Indian fights I'm expected to indors as taking place under my eyes are just enough to take the sand out of the bigger har between Omaga an 'Filsco."

"Exaggereated account of your adventures, eh?"

"Not 'xactly mine. Before I got into the show business, as you must have suspected, I condudcted-that's the word now- a great many parties of Englishmen all through the Black Hills, the Yellowstone country, the Little Missouri and Little Big Horn countries-all round that"- and the ex-scourt mado a wester sweep of the arm - "Well, they were mostely quiet, good natured fellows, that kept me shooting to get peltiy and antlers and sich like for them, and I prided myself on keepin' them out of trouble with Injuns and Igrislies and such. Now, jumping Jehosaphat, I find these quiet chapts have come home heroes of every kind of scrimmage, every skin was the nateral focus of a stack of lies and every horn is hung with a dime novel of the bloodiest kind. And I'm expected to back 'em all up and add bloodie particelars. Its rough on an honest frontiers man, but I do it."

"What sustain whole sale liars?"

"Wal, this way," said bill with a faint blush. "It's mostly a young gal with glowin' eyes who's been lied to that asks me and I aint got it in me to take her visions away from her, and then," he added in a dreamy way, "it's all goin' to help the show." - London Cor. New York Journal.