"Ha! then, I tink perhaps hims could if he wos try,"

said Henri, plunging on to his horse with a laugh, and

arranging the carcass of the antelope across the pommel

of his saddle.

Thus they hunted and galloped, and trotted and

ambled on through wood and plain all day, until the

sun began to descend below the tree-tops of the bluffs

on the west. Then Joe Blunt looked about him for a

place on which to camp, and finally fixed on a spot

under the shadow of a noble birch by the margin of a