The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-29

eu ana nead low. his eyes straight ahead. Then slowly he kneeled down and so died, with his forefeet doubled under him.
 She came running back to me, full of savage joy at her success, and put her arm under my shoulder and told me to come Slowly. fast as l could. I went with her to our prey. We butchered our buffalo as Auberry had showed me. from the backbone down. as he sat dead on his forearms. split ting the skin along the spine and lay ing it out for the meat to rest upon. Again I made fire by shooting tow wad into such finder IS we could ar range from my coat lining. having dried this almost into flame by burn ing glass l made out of a watch crys- tai filled with water. not in the least weak sort of lens. She ran for fuel and for water. and now we cooked and ate, the fresh meat seeming excellent to me. Once more now we moved our camp the girl returning for the horse and our scanty belongings.
 Always now we ate. haggling out the hump ribs. the tongue. the rich back fat; so almost immediately we began to gain in strength. All the next day we worked as we could at drying the meat and taking the things we needed from the ca rcass. We got loose one horn. drying one side of the head in the fire. l saved carefully all the sin ews of the back. knowing we might need them. Then between us we scrap ed at the two halves of the hide. dry ing 1t in the sun. 6eshing It with our little Indian hoe and presently rubbing into it brains from the head of the car cass as the hide grew drier in the sun. We were not yet skilled in tanning as the Indian women are. but we saw that now we would have a house and a bed apiece and food. food. We brofl- ed the ribs at our fire, boiled the bro- ken leg bones in our little kettle. We made fllets of hide to shade our eyes. she thus binding back the long braids of her hair We rested and were com forted. Each hour. it seemed to me, she rounded and became more beau tiful, supple. young. strong there in the beginning of the world. We were rich in these. our belongings. which we shared
 Hitherto, while l was weak. ex- hauSted and unable to reason beyond the vague factors of anxiety and dread, she had cared for me simply, as though she were a young boy and l an older man. The small details of our daily life she had assumed because SLe sttll was the stronger. Without plot or plan and simply through the stern command of necessity, our inter- ests had been identical, our plans GOV cred us both as one. At night for the sake of warmth we had slept closely side by side, both too weary and worn out to reason regarding that or any other thing. Once in the night I know felt her arm across my face, upon my head her hand, she still sleeping and millions of miles away among the stars. I would not have walked her.
 But now benold the strange story of mans advance in what he calls civ ilization! Behold what property means in regard to what we call laws! We had two pieces of robe instead of one We might be two creatures now, man and q woman, wall between instead of two suffering, perishing ani mals with but one common need-tha of self preservation. There were tw, houses now, two beds, because this might be and still allow us to survive Our table was common, and that was all
 During that first night when we slept apart the wolves came very close to our meat heaps and set up their usual roaring chorus. The terror of this she could not endure, and so she came creeping with her half robe to my side where I lay. That was necessary.