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continually imposing upon him, and w^ere tak- 

 ing advantage of every occasion to taunt and 

 insult him. However, a Lttle incident oc- 

 curred which prevented any shedding of blood,, 

 although the one so crowed over had several 

 times threatened to kill the other two, and had 

 even asked me to loan hiixk my gun, and had 

 suppHed himself with cartridges for the pur- 

 pose, and had not this little occurrence which I 

 ain about to relate transpired, I think he 

 would have attempted their destruction. 



We were out one day and I struck a large 

 herd of buffalo, and fearing that as I was likely 

 to have to take some violent exercise, my 

 pocket-book might work out of my pocket 

 and get lost, I handed it to the teamster to 

 hold for me while I was killing buffalo. He 

 said he would do so — I have never seen him 

 or the pocket-book since — and I ^vent after the 

 herd. As soon as I was fairly out of sight he 

 jumped into his wagon and drove off. When 

 I returned to camp in the evening and found 

 him missing, I saw through the whole affair. 

 I told the two men left that the fellow had 



