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CHAPTER XVI. 



ENGLIS1TME?5 ON*A LARK. 



Not very long alter the occurrences men- 

 tioned in the preceding chapter, five Enp-lish- 

 men came to Lakin Station on a lark. They 

 were not peers of the realm, neither were they 

 dukes or baronets, but they were regular built, 

 right lordly Englishmen, of the pure blcod 

 and true type, and were on a sight-seeing tour 

 over this country. They had plenty of money 

 with them, and I should judge from tlie way 

 they scattered it right and left, that there was 

 plenty more where that came from. They 

 were seeing their fun and were paying for it 

 too. They arrived at Lakin fully resolved to 

 take a buffalo hunt on the plains. 



They had the best of guns, each having a 

 good rifle and shotgun apiece. They asked 

 me what I would take to pilot them out on the 

 "^range" and I answered that if they were going 

 to do the shooting that I would go as a pilot 



