saddled, bridled, and mounted forthwith.

After this Dick had no further trouble with his wild

horse.

At his next camping-place, which was in the midst of

a cluster of bushes close beside a creek, Dick came unexpectedly

upon a little wooden cross which marked the

head of a grave. There was no inscription on it, but the

Christian symbol told that it was the grave of a white

man. It is impossible to describe the rush of mingled

feelings that filled the soul of the young hunter as he