CHAPTER XII. 



SUNRISE ON THE PLAINS BLUE JAYS DONKEY BABBITS CLOG-SHAPED 

 STIEEUP ENCAMPMENT AT BLACK JACK CEEEK THE JEW AND THE 

 SAMAEITAN MAEEIAN DOTTEREL KILL-DEER PLOYER HUN- 

 DEED CREEK NECESSITY OP ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS ON THE 

 PLAINS CHANGES OF TEMPERATURE BENEFITS . OP ABSTINENCE 

 FROM TOBACCO BRUTAL CRUELTY CHARACTERISTICS OF MY MEN 



JOHN MANTON GUNS SHOT AT A RATTLESNAKE TALES OF 



RATTLESNAKES AMUSING CONVERSATION DEMOCRATIC INDE 

 PENDENCE INTOXICATED INDIAN INDIAN PONIES. 



ON Tuesday morning the day broke without a cloud to 

 thwart the effulgence of the sun, and as the first ray 

 gleamed on the cold and heavy dew on the long grass 

 around my waggon, I was deluging myself on the ground 

 with water from the adjacent creek, and luxuriating in 

 the rub of a rough towel, preparatory to a breakfast on 

 the delicious partridge for which I had given orders. 



A lovely sight in those still wilds is the rising sun, 

 rising at once above the undulating plains, as if over a 

 dormant sea ! Strange cries of birds reached my ear ; 

 and flocks of the blue jay, the morning rays glancing 

 from their splendid plumage, flew high and slowly over 

 my head, wending their way to the corn-field of some 



