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strike on as many sides of him at once, and he would jump 

 as if trying to get -out of his skin. Finally, when he did get 

 out of our range, he did some of the tallest running I have 

 seen done in many a day, and I don't believe he stopped 

 before dark that night. 



Just before going into camp that evening, we saw five 

 deer standing near the foot of a hill, about six hundred yards 

 away, looking at us. We all dismounted, knelt down, ad- 

 justed our sights carefully to what we judged the distance to 

 be, and fired at the largest buck. As our smoke cleared 

 away, we saw him turn a somersault, and fall dead. We 

 made camp, went and brought him in, and from that time on 

 had plenty of fresh meat. 



The Crow Indians had burned the grass all along the 

 Rosebud and Little Big Horn rivers, and on the intervening 

 table-lands, so that we often had great difficulty in finding 

 grazing for our animals. The country in question is covered 

 by their reservation, and it is supposed that they have burned 

 it to prevent the white ranchmen from grazing their cattle, 

 or making hay on the reservation. They are becoming hos- 

 tile toward the whites, and have ordered several parties of 

 white hunters, haymakers, etc., off their land. They have 

 even gone so far as to burn several stacks of hay that had 

 been cut on the reservation contrary to their wishes. By 

 these and other hostile demonstrations, they are brewing a 

 storm over their heads that will burst upon them one of these 

 days, and they will be driven off their lands as the Sioux, 

 Utes, and other tribes have been in the past. The fact of 

 ranchmen or military parties cutting hay on their lands is not 

 a matter they should object to at all, for the grass is there, 

 .they (the Indians) will not cut it, and if not cut it rots or is 

 burned on the ground. It is better for all concerned that it 

 should be harvested and utilized, and this dog-in-the-manger 



