Let me see--not in New York, I think--Philadelphia--Washington?
No--you would be from the West, by your hat.

Um-m-Omaha--Chicago, St.Louis ?--_Butte_!" he said, with a resounding thwack on his knee.

"Butte! 'Where every prospect pleases, and only man is vile'!" "Right you are," said the Westerner, well pleased.

"I seem to remember you, too." "I have it!" said Mitchell.

"Don't remember your name--but you're the very man Judge Harney pointed out to me as the unluckiest prospector in Montana.