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Canal for the asseate lines, "Catch up! Catch up!"

Riders went out to the day guards with orders to round up the cattle

Dark lines of the driven stock began to dribble in froe of the

valley One by one the corralled vehicles broke park, swung front or

rear, until the coluain held on the beaten road up the valley in

answer to the coned and ready, fell in far behind and pitched camp early There were

two trains, not one

Now, hour after hour and day by day, the toil of the trail through sand

flats and dog towns, deadly in its htheartedness of the start in early spring was gone By this tions were kept filled withthe sides of the wagons held loads

of rudely htly salted and exposed to the

clear dry air to finish curing

But as the people fed full there began a curious sloughing off of the

social coons, short of

supplies or guided by faint hearts, had their fill of the Far West and

sullenly started back east Three dozen broke train and pulled out

independently for the West, ahead of Wingate,held back by the ox teaan to define The curse of flies by day, of

miseries for the travelers The hot