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is meat in camp ! How red and bright his blood 

 looks on the frozen snow ! And that's about as 

 much grousing as you'll get on the real Western 

 Prairie. 



* Aye di me ! Oh ! happy River Platte, and thrice 

 cheerful Dismal — never to be seen again by me ! — 

 Yours, G. H. K.' 



