Fifteen TEX: GENTLEMAN’S GENTLEMAN
This story, published in August 1936, parallels the tale of outrageous laxity and lack of mountain masculinity Tex finds in the two British aristocrats in “William, Prepare my Barth” (The Sportsman, July 1930). In fact, the stories are close enough for this one to be a repetition of the other. The two hunters commit every imaginable sin against mountain masculinity: they dress too colourfully and too fashionably; they rise late; they wash and shave and dress carefully; they want to hunt on horseback, not climbing up and down mountains; they do not abide by sporting rules—one tells how he shot a sitting grouse through the roof of a tent—and finally, sin of sins, they refuse to get wet or dirty, thus destroying their chances of bagging any game and redeeming themselves.
—AG