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Circling ae dusk clouds of steam that went

up from the herd were scores of turkey buzzards, their obscene heads

bent doard, their sodden eyes gleaeous feast awaited thehty herd At last the face of the

prairie had ceased its surging; no lurid eye-ball light gleamed out

of the dusk; and the te

out into the unbounded stretches of the diround was clear she descended fro, lest in the delay the Indians should have accomplished

their object When she reached her horse, she found near by a heap of

dead and struggling buffalo, which in their headlong race had run

over the bluff front of the boulder When she resureat ahed field The herbage had been literally crushed into mire, and

this the innumerable hoofs had churned up with the soft rich soil

The leguminous odors of the trodden clover and the rank ether with the dank earthy sirl's face Her course now lay along an

upland covered with straggling copses of white oak and poplar In the

diht, was Hickory

Bush Upon the solid crest of the little hill the hoofs rang out

sharply; but the girl's quick ear detected noises besides those which

came fro

swing, reserove lay in

front, and as she swerved around this a horse suddenly

before her