Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone 



going through those eleven hours of un- 

 ceasing toil, during which I had ample 

 opportunity to see what a mule could do, 

 and to hear how thoroughly trained mule- 

 packers could express their sentiments re- 

 garding everything and every person in 

 general, and those immediate mules and 

 circumstances in particular, I have no hes- 

 itation in affirming that in both these 

 directions my experience is exhaustive. 



Dead-beat and almost dumb, one of the 

 men, sitting on a newly prostrate mule's 

 head, summed up the situation concisely 

 as he said, glancing at me reproachfully, 

 "It's enough to make a minister of the 

 gospel swear ; " and had I gone through 

 half the poor fellow had endured, I have 

 no doubt I should have agreed with him. 



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