deer His house contains more stuffed specimens of 

 " animated nature '' than any other in this territory. 



Some years since an enthusiastic young woman came 

 out here as a missionary from Massachusetts. She was 

 very successful in her work, and among her converts was 

 a "noble Indian, " whom she induced to go to college, 

 where he studied faithfullv and well, and on graduating 

 was ordained to the ministry. He went back to Morley, 

 made love to the young missionary, was accepted and 

 married her. They are happy, and, while the wife's fam- 

 ily is said to have ostracised her, she seems to be satisfied. 



Thirteen of our party, including four ladies, started 

 on a chicken hunt to a point some twelve miles from this 

 place. As the Indians indulge in shooting chickens from' 

 the saddles of their ponies, and thus depleting their 

 numbers, it was necessary to take teams and drive this 

 distance before we found the birds which even then were 

 in only limited numbers and as wild as hares. When we 

 arrived on the shooting ground it was nearly noon, and 

 as the birds had finished their morning feeding and were 

 found on the edge of the brush fringing a little stream, 

 we had hard work getting more than a glimpse of them 

 before the}' would be out of sight. Taking long flights 

 made it slow shooting. However we made a fairly good 

 bag, and, as it is always the practice of this party of 

 sportsmen and sportswomen to shoot onh- what they can 

 use to advantage, we gave up the sport and the hard work 

 in good season and enjoyed a glorious ride back, watch- 

 ing the forms and ever-changing shadows of the Rocky 

 Mountains, which, though eighteen miles distant, seemed 

 close enough to be reached in a half-hour's walk. 



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