INTER-OCEAN HUNTING TALES 



For several days I took it easy; a large 

 part of the time I sat in a comfortable chair 

 in camp and read novels and played cards. 

 I also managed to work up quite a small 

 medical practice, my victims being Sheffield, 

 Charles Herdick and Marcus Imo, the cock 

 and horse wrangler. The remedies which 

 some people of the far West prescribe for 

 their ailments are quite original and simple. 

 One day when I was starting out on horse- 

 back to hunt in company with Herdick, I 

 noticed that he had not saddled his horse. 

 I asked him the reason. He replied that he 

 was not feeling well and wanted exercise. 

 Anyone familiar with hunting in Jackson's 

 Hole knows how often one has to leave the 

 horse to travel on foot over rough country 

 through snow and up slippery ascents for 

 hundreds of feet. 



Herdick evidently thought this was not 

 enough exercise to keep him in condition. 

 Another time Imo had contracted a severe 

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