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the men, who he said had cheated him, but fortunately he 

 missed and only made a hole in the tent. 



I found that I could not carry all I had brought with me to 

 camp on my pony, so I waited at Carroll a day, as I heard that 

 a Major Reed, an ex-Indian agent, was going out to a trading- 

 store which he had in the Judith Basin, and as he would pass 

 near our camp he kindly offered to carry my things. 1 went 

 out grouse-shooting to pass the time, and met two prospectors 

 from the Black Hills in Wyoming, who were on their way to 

 the Judith Basin, where they had a mining claim, but who had 

 lost their way. As I had on a leather suit, they took me for 

 an Indian, and ran away as fast as they could go, leaving their 

 pack-donkey, and I had some trouble in catching them to show 

 them their error. 



In the evening a young fellow came up and shook hands 

 with me, saying that he had met me in Bismarck the year 

 previous, when he said that he was a clerk in a bank there. I 

 did not remember him, but as he was a Canadian and seemed 

 in great trouble, I took him to my " bedroom " and we had a 

 long talk. He had got into money difficulties in Bismarck, and 

 had come up here in the spring, living by chopping wood and 

 any odd jobs he could get, having previously been a great 

 dandy, never having done any manual labour in his life. 

 "When I met him he had on the remains of a very smart suit 

 frock coat, light vest, and grey trowsers, with patent leather 

 boots but it was somewhat difficult to discover what the 

 material was. His shoes had once buttoned, but they were 

 now tied together with tape, and the kid uppers were sewn on 

 to the patent leather with buckskin thongs. He was a good- 

 looking young fellow, and had evidently been well educated, 



