Badlands Billy 
wolf and three Coyotes; Badlands Billy had 
killed at least a dozen Cows and Dogs at fifty 
dollars a head. Some of the boys decided to 
give it up and go home, so King took advantage 
of their going, to send a letter, asking for reén- 
forcements including all the spare Dogs at the 
ranch, 
During the two days’ wait we rested our 
Horses, shot some game, and prepared for a 
harder hunt. Late onthe second day the new 
Dogs arrived—eight beauties—and raised the 
working pack to fifteen. 
The weather now turned much cooler, and 
in the morning, to the joy of the wolvers, the 
ground was white with snow. This surely 
meant success. With cool weather for the Dogs 
and Horses to run; with the big Wolf not far 
away, for he had been heard the night before ; 
and with tracking snow, so that once found he 
could not baffle us,—escape for him was im- 
possible. 
We were up at dawn, but before we could 
get away, three men came riding into camp. 
They were the Penroof boys back again. The 
change of weather had changed their minds; 
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