CHARLES L. YOUNGBLOOn. II3 



wouldn't take a thousand dollars for his sport. 

 By they the time they returned I had the four 

 we had killed dressed, and we loaded up and 

 went back having been three days. 



While out on this three days trip we saw a 

 great many wild horses, and happened to be 

 speaking of them to a bystander named Boslen, 

 who he began to get considerably interested, 

 and finally asked me what I would charge 

 to catch some for him. I answered by saying 

 that I did not have a sufficient number of 

 saddle horses for such a chase. He said that 

 he had plenty, and inquired how many I would 

 need, and proposed to furnish the saddle 

 horses and as many men as I wanted if I 

 would go, and offered me five dollars a day. 

 I told him that I did not wish to hire in that 

 way, for I might fail to catch any, and he 

 might perhaps think I did not try, but said if 

 he would be at all the expense and furnish me 

 six saddle horses and two good hands, and 

 give me five dollars a head for all I could 

 catch I would go, to which he readily agreed, 

 and we closed the bargain forthwith. I then 



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