CHAPTER XXIII 



AN INTERESTING TRIO 



"Things done well, and with a care, exempt themselves 

 from fear." 



EACH human life has its own peculiar 

 history. The great majority of men, 

 however, pass through their earthly journey 

 in such an uneventful way that they may be 

 said, when the end comes, to have drifted 

 along through the shoals and the rapids of 

 life unconcerned and unmindful of the fact 

 that they should have left some tangible record 

 behind them of some work done in the cause 

 of helping humanity or of uplifting them- 

 selves. 



We had three men with us who deserve 

 more than a passing notice. Each of them 

 was gifted with the ability to do with ease 

 severe and continuous work. With us they 

 were ever obliging, cheerful, and uncom- 

 plaining. 



Our head wrangler is a man that in han- 

 dling his outfit of horses, numbering in all fif- 



