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"I'll go back, Jesse," said Kelsey, the o to

California "I know her now"

"I'll go with you," added young Jed Wingate, cli his saddle horse, which he mounted bare-backed

It was they tho drove and led the spare yokes back to repeat the

crossing with the reons Those on the bank watched thehter across to save time, and were

carried below the trail on the island But they ca, and

the oxen were rounded up once more and doubled in, so that the last of

the train was ready

"That's a fine ate to Caleb Price, ith

hi Kentuckian at his work on the downstreao anywhere"

Price nodded, anxiously regarding the laboring advance of the last

wagons

"Too light," said he "I started with a ton and a half on the National

Pike across Ohio and Indiana I doubt if we average five hundred now

They ford light"

"Look!" he cried suddenly, and pointed

They all ran to the brink The horse to stay the drift of

the line of cattle They had worked low and ons were afloat!

The tired lead cattle had not been able to withstand the pressure of the