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there two days, and though we found signs reason- 

 ably plentiful and saw three or four deer we were 

 unable to kill any. Mr. Jefferson burned some 

 powder after a buck and a doe the first morning 

 after our arrival, but it was his first experience in 



deer hunting, so it is not at 

 all strange that the game 

 should have escaped. Mr. 

 Jefferson was compelled to 



THE STAGE RANCH. 



return home at that time on account of a business 

 engagement, but Mr. Johnston, with characteristic 

 Western hospitality and kindness, said I must 

 not leave without a shot, and so hooked up his 

 team and drove me twenty-five miles farther 

 into the mountains, to a place where he said we 

 would surely find plenty of game. On the way 

 in we picked up old Billy Cowgill, a famous deer 

 hunter in this region, and took him along as guide. 



