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hill to the high shallow depression between it and 
the next more lofty one. 
The sunlight had just crept around into the 
valley of the stream where lay their camp, when, 
after a somewhat lengthy ramble, her ear again 
caught the musical gurgle of its waters. She 
was* nearly opposite the old fort, and thinking, as 
she saw its broken, crumbling walls, how rapidly 
nature was removing all trace of man and re- 
deeming to her lesser children what he had vainly 
tried to claim, when she caught sight of one of 
Say’s striped squirrels. 
She had no specimen of its family, and it was 
to be studied and secured. 
In and out among the rocks and bushes it 
scampered, stopping occasionally to raise up on 
its hind feet and look about it, or to give a touch 
to its dress where some meddlesome twig had 
disarranged a hair or two. It seemed intent upon 
a call on some neighbor down the bank of the 
stream, and she followed it unperceived until she 
feared she should lose it; then she fired and stepped 
from her ambush to secure it. 
Almost at the same moment she was transfixed 
with astonishment by an unearthly howl or shout 
from the supposed deserted fort, and the appear- 
ance from among its ruins of a man and dog ! 
The man, from his clothing, or rather lack of it, 
was undoubtedly an Indian, and both he and the 
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