Il8 VHE ADVENTURES OF 



good luck would have it, I ran across a cow- 

 boy, and gave him five dollars to go to camp 

 and tell them to meet me with a fresh horse 

 on the old Santa Fe trail, and I was again in 

 pursuit of my horses. They were getting tired, 

 and almost directly after I left the cowboy 

 they struck out nearly toward camp, and I 

 stayed within ten miles of the camp that night, 

 and the next morning very early I started to 

 intercept the men who were to bring the horse, 

 and struck the Santa Fe trail just in the nick 

 of time. There I got a fresh horse and some 

 grub, and as soon as possible was chasing my 

 wild horses. I found them near the place 

 where I had left them, and most of them were 

 lying down. They have wonderful en- 

 durance, which the reader will perhaps under- 

 stand when I state that that night one of the 

 mares gave birth to a colt which traveled with 

 the rest all the next day, until about an hour 

 by sun in the evening, when I halted for the 

 night, knowing that the herd would stay there 

 with the colt. By this tin:ie I had them so 

 worried and cowed that they grazed all around 



