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HORSE, FOOT, AND DRAGOONS. 



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;irt\ 



dripping from the huge lumps 

 of meat and stream inof from 

 L the clothing of the men, 



^IX , and then off they ride, 



with exulting cries, to 

 their tepees. " Them fel- 

 lers an' all their cousins 

 an' wives' relations '11 hev 

 full stomachs, an' be as fVr'*'''J 

 cocky as gophers fer a week, '^w jj 

 and then they'll come loafin' ^^--^ 



round the corral ag^'in, beo-orin' 

 fer somethin- to eat, an' ready -tl^^'i 



to steal anything they kin lay 

 ther paws on. When's that thar 

 ole raft goin' to git hyar ? Not 

 to-night, ubetcherboots !" and the 



