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could get a shot at them to suit me. Here I 

 : hot one and it ran on about three hundred 

 yards on a hit! and fell. This was on Beaver's 

 Creek, and the beavers had built a dam across 

 the creek, so that we could not across with the 

 team and wagon, and, as it Avas about sun- 

 down, I told Howard to turn the horses out 

 and 1 would go over and skin the buffalo. I 

 crossed the creek on a beaver dam, and had. 

 hardly began dressing my game when I 

 noticed three niea about three quarters ot a 

 mile off on horseback and coming toward us. 

 1 took them to be Indians and told Howard to 

 gather up the ammunition and get it handy iis 

 the I dians were coming, and I picked up my 

 gun and started back to the wagon. But it 

 was a lalse alarm, as the men were cow-boys 

 1 )oking up some lost cattle. 



I had noticed tiiat Howard did not seem to 

 I e in an easy frame of mind, any of the time 

 he was with me, and I supposed that he had 

 gotten into trouble somewhere and was 

 dod.-ji'ig. I continually me': men of this clase 

 out there and soon learned to think but little 



