274 Life of a Fossil Hunter 



camp near the head of a ravine. Here we had 

 found a natural cistern full of rain-water, protected 

 from the sun and cattle by a couple of great concre- 

 tion-like masses of rock that covered it. Over the 

 divide where I had found the great skull, be- 

 tween Boggy and the breaks of Schneider near its 

 mouth in Cheyenne River, George took Levi and 

 myself. The evening before, I took the skull in to 

 Lusk for shipment. George pointed out a locality 

 in which he had found a bone-bed, where we later 

 secured many teeth of reptiles and fishes, scales of 

 ganoid fishes, bones of small dinosaurs and croco- 

 diles and the beautifully sculptured shells of turtles, 

 Trionx, etc. As there was still a tract of a few 

 hundred yards to be explored the two boys started 

 to go over it, while I went to the bone-bed. They 

 soon joined me with the information that they had 

 found some bones sticking out of a high escarpment 

 of sandstone. George had found part of the speci- 

 men in one place and Levi another part soon after- 

 wards. I requested George to carefully uncover 

 the floor on which the bones lay. 



While we were taking in our skull, George and 

 Levi ran nearly out of provisions, and the last day 

 of our absence lived on boiled potatoes. But in 

 spite of this they had removed a mass of sandstone 

 12 feet wide, 15 feet deep, and 10 feet high. 



Shall I ever experience such joy as when I stood 



