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From: Willets <da...@ra...> - 2009-12-05 19:38:15
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E it won't hurt you, and it was probably more scared than you, Dick." "Yes--maybe!" said the other. He lighted a stick of greasewood at the fire, and looked about his part of the sleeping ground. But he found nothing in the animal line. "Guess you dreamed it!" said Nort. "I certainly did not!" emphatically declared his brother. "Well, go to sleep again," advised Bud. "If you feel it a second time call me!" "Huh! I'll do that all right!" declared Dick. He carefully shifted his sleeping place, making a searching examination of the ground before spreading out his tarpaulin. And he was some little time in dropping off to slumber again. But there was no further disturbance in the night, and in the morning Bud looked for marks on the ground, declaring the visitor had been a prairie dog, which Dick declared his unbelief in, sticking to the snake theory as being more sensational. After breakfast they started to drive the cattle again, reaching the railroad yards and successfully transacting the business of selling their stock. It was the night that Bud and his cousins returned from having driven the steers to the railroad yard that something happened which again brought to the front all their worries and anxieties. They were all seated about the camp fire, and Pocut Pete had just arisen, remarking that he would get ready for his turn at night-riding, when there was a sort of hissing in the air over the heads of those gathe |