among a thousand! A buffalo calf! Ha! git on with

ye!"

This last part of the remark was addressed to his

horse, and was followed by a whack that increased the

pace considerably.

The space between two such riders was soon devoured.

"Hallo! Dick--Dick Varley!"

"Eh! why, Marston, my boy!"

The friends reined up so suddenly that one might

have fancied they had met like the knights of old in the