Part 12 (1/2)
”Yes,” commented Mrs Cody, ”and where is your 250,000?”
”Well, I've got to make it yet,” I said, and then to Rose: ”How did the fall hit you?”
”What fall?”
”Frocontract, and I resumed my work as a buffalo hunter When the Perry House, the Rome hotel, was hter and installed them there
It was hard to descend froraders and buffalo hunters, but we had to do it The rise and fall of modern Rome had made us, and it broke us!
CHAPTER IV
I soon becaency our town of Roht We visited him often in Hays, and eventually he presented my partner Rose and myself each with two lots in the nen
Webb frequently acco excursions; and before he had been on the prairie a year there were few men who could kill hahbred bay, we discovered a band of Indians about two et between us and the town A gallop of three ht us between them and home; but by that time they had come within three-quarters of a mile of us We stopped to wave our hands at thee But as there were thirteen in the party, and they were getting a little too close, we turned and struck out for Hays They sent so shots in pursuit, then wheeled and rode off toward the Saline River
When there were no buffalo to hunt I tried the experihaaited for that sort of work I had about given up the idea of extending his usefulness to railroading when news ca over the hill
There had been none in the vicinity for some time As a consequence, ha armed with ia,” an iun which I had obtained fro toward the buffaloes I observed fivefrom the fort They, too, had seen the herd and had come to join the chase
As I neared them I saw that they were officers, newly arrived at the fort, a captain and four lieutenants
”hello,out the captain as they caame we are”
”Yes, sir,” I returned ”I saw those buffaloes coet so outfit closely Brighah the best buffalo horse in the West, was decidedly unprepossessing in appearance
”Do you expect to catch any buffaloes on that Gothic steed!” asked the captain, with a laugh
”I hope so”
”You'll never catch them in the world, my fine fellow It requires a fast horse to overtake those animals”
”Does it?” I asked innocently
”Yes But co to kill the else After we take the tongues and a piece of the tenderloin, you may have what is left”