and take the meat into camp an' cook it without

sayin'
a word

.'

"'Done,' says I, 'that's it;' for ye must know the

poor critter wos no judge o' meat. He couldn't tell one kind from

another,

an' he niver axed questions.

In fact he niver a'most spoke to us all the trip. Well,

we cut up the horse, an' carried the flesh an' marrowbones

into camp, takin' care to leave the hoofs an' skin