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276 HISTORY OF THE BANKfor him to meet the best people in the <strong>com</strong>munity.He had,he said, already extended to him an invitation to be present,but it had been declined, and he felt that his duty to the bank<strong>com</strong>pelled him to insist on the young man's presence. Hetherefore appointed a <strong>com</strong>mittee of four to go to the hotelwhere the new manager resided and to bring him to theclub, and they were instructed not to accept a refusal. The<strong>com</strong>mittee found him in bed and, on his again declining, pickedhim up in his night-clothes and bore him struggling throughthe streets of the town to the club, where he was deposited asa piece de resistance in the centre of the banquet table, and<strong>com</strong>pelled to make a speech. The young man realized thatthis particular town did not suit his temperament, and it issaid that he telegraphed his head office applying for a transfer.At all events he departed within a week.In Medicine Hat the story is still told of a Monday morningsome years ago when the town found itself without bankingfacilities for several hours. "The opening day of the duckIt is illegal toshooting season happened to fall on a Sunday.shoot on Sunday, but as usual several parties left town earlyin the morning, one of them including a member of the staffof each of the three banks then open. The day before,some of the practical jokers in the town had warned the membersof this party that they believed the Mounted Police weredetermined to put a stop to Sunday shooting, and that theywould make an example of any offenders they could catch.The party had stopped shooting about noon to rest and to havelunch, when one of them saw in the distance two horsemenwith red coats riding rapidly towards them. Without waitingto investigate, the sportsmen made off as fast as their horsescould travel, but in the excitement lost their trail and direction,and were out all night on the prairie, <strong>com</strong>pletely lost andwith nothingto eat. Theygot back to town the next afternoononly to make the pleasing discovery that the red-coatedhorsemen were not policemen at all, and that a large party haddriven out from town and hidden over the brow of a near-by

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