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it w;is HO joke ruiiiiiiio- ill loiio- niM>er l)Oots and earrying a 

 H'un and eollectino- boxes. After runnino- liali" a mile 1 was 

 played out, and began to thiidc matters were getting sei'ious. 

 I did not liive the prospect of having to walk seven miles Imck 

 to MoosejaAV, and then I was afi-aid tlie liorse would get lost 

 and fall into the hands of Indians. I also knew he ha<l to 

 cross some deep valley's in the direction he was going, and I 

 was afraid he might u|»s>t the buggy and take fright, or he 

 might wander until he came to the railway track, and a vivid 

 idea of a railway accident resulting, crossed my mind, liut I 

 could run no fai'ther, and so had to content myself with walk^- 

 ing, and the horse and buggy were now nearly two miles 

 away : he was going westward towards an elevated ridge of 

 the prairie, and Moosejaw lay to the south-west. I kneAV if lie 

 got over the toj) of that ridge of praiiie he would fall into tlie 

 hands of Indians, and I should probably never see him again. 

 The Indians would take care of him after that. I began to 

 despair, and wondered what was the value of the horse and 

 buggy, and what I should say to the owner M'hen I got back 

 to Moosejaw. On reaching the foot of the ridge the liorse did 

 not ascend, but turned southward Jind l»egan to walk along the 

 foot of it. 80 I gained courag(^ and began to run again : the 

 ridge was a half circle in shape, so I took a sh(jrt cut across 

 the prairie, in the direction the horse' was heading for, and in 

 twenty minutes I nearly got up to him, when he saw me com- 

 ing, and the rascal set oft' running again. Some distance away 

 was an old, empty barn, and the horse ran to this place and 

 then came to a halt. I ran along, keeping the barn between 

 the liorse and myself so that he could not see me coming, and 

 in getting up to the l)arn, I ran out from beldnd and seized 

 liim bv tlie rein. Lookino- into the bug'gfv, I saw my birds 

 had gone, they had got shaken out, many of the eggs I found 

 broken, and some missing altogether. You can judge how 

 disappointed I was. I got into the buggy and dro\'e Ijack two 

 miles in the hopes of finding the l)irds laid on the prairie, but 

 ] did not find a single specimen, so 1 returned to Moosejaw 

 and consoled myself with tlie thoupiits that matters mio-ht have 



