Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21

ZION iS not at fault, somebody was IN the wa
ter disturbing the fish"-at which the other
thought of the turn his joke had taken.
hose were pretty good jumps, colonel,
SAID he, but we didn't reach. ! suppose Ia
ought to have let the boys finish the buffalo,
put l was kind of mad at being made to
take bath against my inclination and, then,
was afraid he might take it into his head to
go tor the. pieketed horses, and he'd have
made bad Job of it, He was powerful mad
| tell you. But you did well, boys he said,
turning to Jud and me. "You went for the
old chap in good style for greenhorns, and
there's five bullet holes besides mine to show
tor 1t, but they weren't made in the right
place. III teach you how to shoot buffaloes
before get done with you" =,
we assured Jerry that we were not at all
put out at what he had done, and should be
only too glad to take lessons of him in buffalo
hunting.
Its the wrong time of the year to hunt
them now" said he, but wish could have
you go out on the Little Missouri with me
next September
But ! have not time to dwell longer upon
the incident which occurred here. We dis
patched our dinner, and found the meat very
palatable, though a little tough 1t seemed
almost vic lied to leave the great carcass lying
there for the wolves, but we could only carry
small part of it with us.
Leaving this stream, our route led us across
high, level plateau, extending for miles
north of the Great Bend" of the Missouri
which we had passed several miles to the left
during the forenoon
We had proceeded but short distance be
fore we began to notice small patches oi
prickly pear, plant which Jud aid | had
never seen in wild state before, and in the
course OF an hour or more we were travelling
through a perfect bed of them. We had tC
get off and pull the spears from the dogs feet
half dozen times before they learned to keeT
in the beaten track.
About 6 o'clock we came to another smal
stream, where we stopped for the night. We
camped on the hill and carried our wood anC
water up in order to guard against surprise.
We were serenaded that evening by pacl
OF prairie wolves, and we had to secure the
dogs. upon hearing the first howl, or they
would have left us on wolf hunt
The wolves formed a semcircle around II
on the prairie, extending to the brow of th'
bluffs on either side. There must have beer
fifty of them, just far enough to be out o
sight in the darkness and such chorus neve
came to my ears before. Jud and had heart
wolves howl i'll the woods and hills of Wis
consin, but nothing that ever compared will
this.
After listening a spell, we grew tired of i
and wanted to go to sleep. So Jerry told u
all to get our guns and give them ''regula
voley."
We caught up our weapons, and each fac
ing a different way, fired two or three shots
aiming as near as we could guess, and the.
| troubled us but little more that night.
We took turns standing guard again, ant
L got along very well, we were up on tn
high prairie, with no lurking places near us
Up and off again in the morning, and ou
journey that day for the most part was bar
rem of incident. We saw a number of ante
| lope, but no larger animals, and we did no
| get a shot at these.
We camped opposite Fort Pierre at noon
but nearly twenty miles from it, and withou
seeing a human being since leaving For
| Thompson.
We debated some as to whether it was pos
sible to learn anything by going over by For
Pierre; but Jerry Blake, after examining tn
road for short distance ahead, declared tina
both the mules and Charlie had passed owe
this road. So that settled the matter
eve are on the right trail, sure said he
''There is no two ways about it, but we'r
They're going through a whooping and ther
hasn't been soul over the route since the
went along, neither"
Thus reassured, we pushed on again, an
about the, middle of the afternoon came i
sight Of the Miss1uri, Just below the presen
relief to our sense of vision to turn from tn
level, monotonous plain which we had bee
traversing and look down upon the vale
and the broad river, sEirted by groves of tim
| ber
For three or four miles our route ran alon
the top of these bluffs, several hundred fee
above the level of the stream.
rode OSt along, you'll see the ne biggest bi 6 soT W
burylng ground on, on the the Mis- Missouri, opposit
our our side up up yonder. There's a big village o
Sanks Just above that timber. They had tn
smallpox there not many years ago, and i
took pile of young timber to hoist thei
carcasses on"
We had passed four or five ''buryin
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