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lowed me to dismount and mend the curb. In pay- 

 ment for his treachery, I forced him to run at full 

 speed down the steep and rugged trail to camp. 



This chapter has been largely taken up with ad- 

 ventures and a study of the man Cope; but as a 

 matter of fact, there was little else to tell about, as 

 we were in such haste that we secured few speci- 

 mens, and the most important result of the expedi- 

 tion was our discovery of many new specimens of 

 dinosaurs, represented chiefly by teeth. 



On the first of November a heavy snowstorm set 

 in, promising to leave the country covered with 

 snow for the winter ; so we loaded our outfit and 

 started for Fort Benton. The sergeant went with 

 us, very fortunately, as it proved; for one night, 

 as we were camping in the Bear Paw Mountains, 

 one of our crazy mustang wheelers heard a wolf 

 howl and started on a run for one of the other 

 horses which was picketed farther down the slope. 

 Coming suddenly to the end of its rope, its feet 

 slipped, and it fell and broke its neck. But for the 

 sergeant's horse we could not have hauled in our 

 load. 



Countless herds of buffalo were being driven to 

 the Bad Lands by the storm, as were also great 

 droves of deer, elk, and antelope. It seemed as if 

 it would be impossible to exterminate them. Yet 

 I learned by the papers the other day that the last 



