lasso and trip a mustang as well as a Mexican. Mind

the badger-holes, Dick.--Hold in a bit, Henri; yer nag

don't need drivin'; a foot in a hole just now would

cost us our scalps. Keep down by the creek, lads."

"Ha! how dey yell," said Henri in a savage tone,

looking back, and shaking his rifle at them, an act that

caused them to yell more fiercely than ever. "Dis old

pack-hoss give me moche trobel."

The pace was now tremendous. Pursuers and pursued

rose and sank on the prairie billows as they swept