CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



FLQtC 



IHB OBJECT OF OUB EXPEDITION A GLIMPSE OP ALASKA THROUGH CAP- 

 TAIN walrus' glass — WE ARE TEMPTED BY OUR RECENT PURCHASE — 



ALASKAN GAME OF "OLD SLEDGE " THE EARLY STRUGGLES OF KAN- ^ 



SAS THE SMOKY HILL TRAIL — INDIAN HIGH ART — THE "BORDER- 

 RUFFIAN," PAST AND PRESENT — TOPEKA — HOW IT RECEIVED ITS 

 NAME — WAUKARUSA AND ITS LEGEND, 2d-3b 



CHAPTER II. 



A CHAPTER OP INTRODUCTIONS — PROFESSOR PALEOZOIC TAMMANY SACHEM 



DOCTOR PYTHAGORAS — GENUINE MUGGS — COLON AND SEMI-COLON 



SHAMUS DOBEEN TENACIOUS GRIPE — BUGS AND PHILOSOPHY — HOW 



36-54 



CHAPTER III. 



the topeka auctioneer — muggs gets a bargain — cynocephalus — 



indian summer in kansas — hunting prairie chickens our first 



day's sport, 55-63 



CHAPTER IV. 



OBICKEN-SHOOTING CONTINUED — A SCIBNTIFIO^PARTY TAKE THE BIRDS ON 



THE WING EVILS OF FAST FIRING AN OLD-FASHIONED "SLOW SHOT" 



— THE HABITS OF THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN — ITS PROSPECTIVE EXTINC- 

 TION — liODE OF HUNTING IT — THE GOPHER SCALP LAW, . . . Sl-T-i 



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