1 88 THE ADVENTURES OF 



to seek a refuge from the din and noise 

 farther west, and they ^vere so frightened that 

 they did not come back for six months. Most 

 of these fellows had been gulled into coming- 

 west by land agents to get cheap land and 

 had been bitten. At any rate they had driven 

 the buffalo off and we had to go back without 

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