wos nothin' more nor less than places where buffaloes

wos used to waller in. It's often seemed to me that if

we knowed the

raisons

o' things, we wouldn't be so

much puzzled wi' them as we are."

The truth of this last remark was so self-evident

and incontrovertible that it elicited no reply, and the

three friends rode on for a considerable time in silence.

It was now past noon, and they were thinking of