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Levi to the barn to put the horses in, they had 

 been standing in the corral near by. He had 

 hardly accomplished this, when the storm was 

 upon us; the gravel and sand beat on the iron 

 roof like hail. He stood in the door with a light- 

 ed lantern. I feared the roof might fall in and 

 break the lamp, and set fire to the hay, and I 

 shouted to him to put it out, but he could not 

 hear me. It became instantly dark as midnight, 

 as the air was dense with gravel, sand and dirt 

 driven at terrible speed by the raging wind. I 

 started to the barn a hundred yards away, and 

 got my face cut with the flying sand, my eyes 

 blinded with dirt. But I reached him and put 

 out the light and we attempted by holding each 

 others hand, to reach the tents. Suddenly we 

 saw an electric light hanging over our tent, on 

 a telephone wire that was stretched above. Then 

 another and another sparkled in the darkness 

 along the line and lighted up the posts and wire 

 fence on either side of the lane we were follow- 

 ing. As far as we could trace the telephone 

 wire, little lights swung in the wind as if some 

 one had turned on a switch to light us to camp. 

 It was certainly a little uncanny to say the least, 

 and if I had been superstitious, I might have been 

 frightened. Levi went off to bed in another tent, 

 I watched the strange phenomenon until I too, 

 got tired, and turned into my bed and went to 

 sleep. All this is part of a Fossil Hunter's day's 

 work. Although this was the first time I had ever 



