AT THE PAINTED WOODS. 142 
' Preparation,I came across a fox traveling leisurely along 
and when the opportunity came for a good aim drew up 
the gun and pulled trigger. The shot took effect and 
the stricken animal went spinning over the snow. It had 
reached a point known as the Bare Butte, and at its 
base the animal fell over dead. On going up to the fox 
I was surprised to find a bunch of green paper tightly 
gripped between his closed teeth, which upon examina- 
tion proved to be a $20 greenback. 
After the surprise of the incident was over I took the 
back trail of the animal to discover if possible the place 
where the money had been picked up, and after about 
nine hundred yards trailing over the snow, came 
to a place where the fox had been pawing through the 
frozen crust, After digging away the snow, I picked up 
about $120.00 which upon after enquiry proved to have 
been lost by a wagon boss of a train from the Indian 
agency at Fort Berthold, the previous autumn, being 
on his way to Bismarck for supplies. About 200 yards 
from the spot where the money was found the train was 
moving along when the boss preparing for a smoke of 
his pipe, fished in his side pockets for matches and 
tobacco, when his role of money was accidently pulled 
out with these articles, and unknown to him, carried off 
by a violent gust of wind and deposited in a depression 
formed by an ancient land slide near where once the 
Missouri’s muddy waters rolled. While this incident 
was an odd one—the facts are as above stated. 
After the high water had subsided following the break- 
up of 1877, the water in the low point around the 
