o' bushes and lay by till it's past."

Turning a little to the right of the course they had

been following, the hunters galloped along one of the

hollows between the prairie waves before mentioned, in

the direction of a clump of willows. Before reaching

it, however, they passed over a bleak and barren plain

where there was neither flower nor bird. Here they

were suddenly arrested by a most extraordinary sight--at

least it was so to Dick Varley, who had never seen

the like before. This was a colony of what Joe called