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I chose. So ] drove them about to suit my- 

 self that day, and at night had them back near 

 camp. We turned the colt out with them, 

 and I told Boslen that we would start tor 

 Lakin Station with them the next morning, 

 but when morning came I concluded to drive 

 them around before we undertook to drive 

 them in, and when we did start in with them 

 we took a direct line for the station, and 

 crossed the sand hills. We were two days v 



crossing them, during which time the horses 

 got no water at all, but as soon as we were 

 over them we struck a lake and they drank to 

 repletion, from the effects of which eight of 

 them died, and I lost forty dollars. We then 

 drove them about twelve miles to a cow 

 corrall, where we corralled them, closed them 

 in, and drove them across the river to Lakin, 

 safely housing the twenty-lour head. 



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