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So while Mr. Wright held the arm, I put splints and 

 a roller bandage under the hand, which was laid on 

 a table, and then forcibly pushed the bone back into 

 its natural position. After which I bandaged the 

 hand tightly. I left directions with the girl to hang 

 a can of water with a small hole in it over the hand, 

 so that the water might drip on it and by evapora- 

 tion cool it and prevent inflammation. My instruc- 

 tions were carried out by the brave girl, and her 

 mother's hand was soon as well as ever. 



In these last chapters I have often wandered far 

 afield, for it would have taken too long to relate all 

 the events of my various expeditions in consecutive 

 order. Hoping that my readers will pardon the 

 digressions, I return to the expedition of 1877. 



Russell Hill proved a most efficient assistant, and 

 it has always grieved me that he should in later years 

 have given up work in the fossil fields for the 

 practice of medicine. Will Brouse, too, was an 

 enthusiastic worker; he was not satisfied to be 

 relegated to the pots and kettles and horses, and not 

 only did his duty as our teamster and cook, but 

 soon accomplished almost, if not quite as much in 

 the field as any one of us. I never had a more 

 congenial party in all the years of my field work. 



But one day in August I received a bulky letter 

 from Professor Cope. " Turn over all the outfit to 

 Mr. Hill," he wrote, " and go at once to a new field 



