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There were plent}^ of antelope but I seldom 

 tried to kill any, but he wanted to kill some- 

 thing, and I told him he could try. He was 

 slipping along toward them very slyly, when, 

 all at once, he turned and came running toward 

 the wao^on as hard as he could. When he 

 came up I asked him w^hat the matter was, 

 and he said, "Didn't you see it lightning? 1 

 don't want any steel in my hands when it is 

 lightning. Why, I have jerked many a knife 

 out of my pocket and thrown it away on that 

 account." I laughed and told him that if he 

 wasn't careful he would get killed before his 

 time yet. He didn't stay any longer, and as 

 we got in to the station he went east, and I hired 

 a fellow by the name of George Johnson,^jWho 

 was, if any difference, a bigger coward than 

 Daniels. He stayed with me about twenty 

 days, when he happened to an accident that 

 caused him to leave. It happened in this 

 wise : We had taken a load of meat in to the 

 station, and were selling it out to the emigrants, 

 of which there were a large number. Johnson 

 struck up an acquaintance with some of them 



