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the Arkansas River. I had killed plenty of 

 buffalo there and supposed I could easily do so 

 again. We had only gotten about twenty 

 miles south when we came to where the 

 prairie had been recently burned. 

 We traveled tw^o more days that we 

 did not see anything at all but the 

 burned prairie. The w^orst of all was, that 

 we had taken but very l.ttle grub along 

 with us, of course, expecting to find plenty o^ 

 game, but in this we were disappointed, as all 

 the game had been chased out by the tire. I 

 had two dogs along and they soon began to 

 manifest decided symtoms of hunger, but as we 

 had but a very little for ourselves we did not 

 think it exactly prudent to divide with them. 

 At last I saw a badger lying near his hole 

 and shot him for my dogs, but they would not 

 taste it at all. I thought perhaps they might 

 get hungry enough to eat it beiore they got 

 anything else, so I threw it into the wagon and 

 took it along. When we camped that night 

 I again offered them some badger, but they 

 were not ready for it yet. I dressed it and 



