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to catch it again in full intensity. Suddenly he 

 wheeled half about and stopped a moment, with 

 a slight motion of his tail, then as suddenly 

 started off on a walk, but more cautiously than 

 before. 



As we tied the horses to a tree two other 

 wagons belonging to the party drove up, contain- 

 ing some ladies and two tyros. Another dog 

 was let loose, and in a moment more he was pa- 

 cing solemnly along in the rear of Prince, and 

 looking about as wise. 



Where deep-toned pink from the belated 

 prairie-rose nodded over green beds of fern the 

 dogs slowly crawled, and soon came to a halt a 

 few feet from a fallen tree-top. From the trail- 

 ing clusters with which the wild pea had fes- 

 tooned the dead branches Bob White and his 

 wife with a dozen little ones rose in chirping and 

 twittering lines of gray and brown, curling away 

 in all directions. Then over another swell the 

 dogs snaked their way through waving prairie- 

 grass dotted with golden moccasin-flowers. On 

 top of this svvtU Prince paused as if to survey 

 the landscape. Toward the west rolled a mighty 

 undulation of velvet green cut with ravines 



