82 EAMBLES AFTER SPORT. 



diggings ? '' I was alone at the time. " Well, I think I 

 did hear one some days ago ; the boys thought she was a 

 buffalo." " Buffaler, be d — d ; lookee he-ar, ef I finds 

 the all-fired cuss that's corralled that air keow, call me 

 hoss, call me alligater, call me any tarnal critter under the 

 sky, but he^s my meat. Yessir.^' When my two brave 

 companions returned I told them what had occurred. 

 " My ! that's Judge Smaley, for a dollar. He's on it, 

 you bet ; if he finds out we've had his cow, he'll go for 

 us straight." That week we had fresh cow for dinner 

 every day, and we drank Judge Smaley's health in 

 Outter whiskey every evening. 



