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the house being closed, and resumed operations when it opened 

 at eight the next morning. Almost every night there were 

 fights in these saloons ; a good many men were shot, and no 

 notice was taken of it, as there were only three policemen in 

 the place, who took particularly good care to get out of the 

 way as soon as a row began. 



Two days in such a place satisfied us, so we went to a livery 

 stable and bought a waggon and two ponies and a small out- 

 fit, and started for Sheyenne a place to which Julesberg was 

 beginning to move on to, as the railway was finished to within 

 a few miles of that town. It was about ninety miles further 

 west, and we were three days in reaching it, and on arrival 

 found it to be just such another place as Julesberg, but rather 

 more substantially built, and possessing two wooden hotels, 

 to one of which we went, putting our ponies in a livery stable 

 together with " Polly " and " Henry/' the daily bill for the 

 four being eight dollars (32 shillings). The excuse for such 

 an outrageous charge was, that nothing was grown in the 

 country, and everything had to be brought from such a dis- 

 tance. I forget the name of our hotel, but it was kept by a 

 Mr. Gildersleeve, and it contained only one room for men, in 

 which there were twenty-seven beds, each meant for two. 

 You never knew who you were going to have as companion 

 very frequently a half-drunken waggon-driver, who before 

 he got into bed deposited a loaded revolver under the pillow, 

 which you found yourself lying on in the course of the night. 

 As we were two we were spared this, though having a number 

 of such men in the room with you was quite bad enough. I 

 have said there was only one room for men ; but divided from 

 this by rough unplaned boards, merely put up side by side, 



