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CHAl'TKi: VIII 



!'th. This iiioniin;: 1 \vas ( ,iit K.-t'..|.- 1 ' 

 .iii'l \i-ited tin- ne-t of \Vil-, n- phalan.pe I 

 had fiiinul tin- ni^lit previous, which now contained 



four [1 handsome clutch ; tin- mark- 



li-jixy that they almost concealed the 

 ground col. mi'. I examined tin- iie-t of rusty Crackle 

 found Some dajH previously, l.ut it \\a- -till empty . 

 als. ' ' and Mfa "f red-win^-. I starling ami thm 



liack i lfDO66Jaw,afl 1 \va> ^"in^ t') K-a\- this place for 

 L-ikf. After lrcakfa-t. in., tin- train from 



^eii aj.j r-aehin--. and a f.-\v ininute.s later 1 \va>on my 

 \vay to Hush 1^-ike. ( )n lea\'in^ Moosejau \\c commence 4h 



nt of another prairie steppe. call-d the Missouri ( 'oi 

 \V. ha\e now reached the end of the continuous settlement- 

 and from hen- to the Kocky mountains \\ e shall only find the 

 pioneer farmers in Croups, here and there, of three or four 

 houses. .\v\\e ascend the Missouri < 'oteau the country - 

 eomee very hilly, and is studded with numerous lakes and 

 ponds. \\ e shall see no trees f, ,r <,\.T .me hundred miles, not 

 i a Lush, and without them the short Luttalo grass gives 

 the country a liain-n. desolate look : Imt the land is not l.ar- 

 reii. as the iM-casi..nal station gardens testify, with their won- 

 derful growth of eei-eals and ve^-ia!.: 



There is a flutter , .f .-xcitenn-nt anioii^ the paxsen-vi - and 

 a rush to the window- Antelope- ' \Ve shall see them 

 |Uently now. as we are miin^ through the cream of the ante 

 lope country. The t.eautiful antelope bounds away over the 

 hilly pi'airic on the approach of the train, and we watch the 

 whit.- tuft which serves him for a tail until it disappears in 



listance. The country is reticulated with luitfalo n 

 and pitted with their circular-shaped wallows. Their white 

 Indies are plentiful on the prairies, and at 1'arkl.et: . alon^ the 



