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wind, which veered to the southwest at about ten o'clock in 

 the forenoon, is now blowing quite briskly, while intervening 

 clouds shut out the rays of the sun, which rode radiant and 

 undimmed in his splendor during the forenoon hours. Under 

 these more favorable conditions the work progresses faster 

 than before the midday hour. 



As night advances, and as the sun begins to color the even- 

 ing sky with golden and crimson paints, the work ceases, and 

 the governor gives his orders for the work to be done on the 

 following day. 



THE APACHE AND THE WAGON. 



When the Apache Indians first saw a wagon, they shot it 

 full of holes and then burned it. At a later date wagons were 

 issued to them by the government. These they tried to use, 

 instead of destroying, but, as they had had but little experi- 

 ence in using the white man's things, several accidents oc- 

 curred. 



In hitching a team to a wagon, they hitched the traces first ; 

 then took down the lines; and, as a finish to his hitching up, 

 put up the neck-yoke last. As a result of this backward way 

 of procedure the teams, when only the tugs were hitched, often 

 ran away and smashed up the wagon. 



An accident of another sort occurred several times as the 

 result of their not knowing how to lock a wagon. When they 

 would come to a hill that they were compelled to descend, in- 

 stead of using the lock to hold the wagon from running on 

 the team, they would "pile" as many Indians as possible into 

 the wagon to hold it down and keep it from running on the 

 team as it went down hill. The lassoing of another team was 

 the usual result, if nothing worse. When this mode of keep- 

 ing the wagon from running too fast down hill failed, they 

 resorted to another scheme. They had seen the cowboys, when 

 mounted, hold a cow with a lariat rope ; so they tried the same 

 plan in holding the wagon from running down hill too fast 

 in its descent. This scheme would, probably, have worked 

 better if the rope had not been left slack till the wagon 

 got under headway. A mounted Indian, at the top of the hill, 

 held a rope around the pommel of the saddle, the other end 

 being tied to the hind axletree of the wagon. With this rope 

 the simple-hearted aborigine supposed that he and his horse 



