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RUSTLINGS IN THE ROCKIES. 



just gone through. We had gone but a few feet when he 

 caught sight of the old lady again, and with a lucky shot 

 landed a bullet in the butt of her ear, laying her dead within 

 twenty feet of us. At the report of his rifle one of the 

 others raised on its haunches and I sent a bullet through its 



UNITED IN DEATH. 



heart, making another funeral in that family. The third one 

 concluded he wasn't hungry just then, and, skipping away 

 through the jungle, made his escape without giving either of 

 us a shot at him. 



We dragged the corpses of the two down and laid them 



