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"I' to look for loose stock You

others get a meal into these people--coffee, quinine, more coffee Then

hook up all the teams you can andthe buffalo in a week or ten days Nothing can stop us

All you need is just a little ood deal more of both

"Now's a fine time for this train to shake into place," he added "You,

Price, take your o down the lines Tell your kinfolk and

faether Let

'eo We can't

tell how the grass will be on ahead, and we may have to break the train

into sections on the Platte; but we'll break it ourselves, and not see

it fall apart or fight apart So?"

He wheeled and went away at a trot All he had given theons caroups and halted at the river bank, where

the work of rafting and wagon boating went methodically forward Scores

of individual craft, tipsy and risky, two or three logs lashed together,

angled across and landed far below Horseer rafts were steadied fore and aft with ropes snubbed around tree

trunks on either bank Once started, the resourceful pioneer found a

dozen ways to skin his cat, as onewaters per the stock It all seemed