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Twenty-Two WHAT’S IN A NAME?
This late story (1938) echoes earlier satires poking fun at British hunters for their love of fancy equipment and gadgets, baths, shaving, and other civilian ablutions foreign to the proper mountain man in his mountain camp. The “pilgrim” disgraces himself both by his elaborate morning toilette and by making a noise that causes a prize moose to bolt. However, he redeems himself somewhat by shooting the moose later the same day, when it unaccountably shows up where the hunter and Tex are fishing. The sly introduction of a gentlemanly code of sportsmanship upends the dominant ethos of the piece—animal-savvy guides, stupid pilgrim—when the hunter shouts to spook the moose into running...
—AG