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Terry ran upstairs, turned up the light, ripped off his white clothesand slipped into riding clothes and flannel shirt. As he buckled onhis belt and hooked[Pg 142] in canteen and holster, he heard the Sergeantgalloping down the street with his led horse. A swift inspection ofthe mechanism of his big automatic, four extra clips added to thebelt, and he ran downstairs as the Macabebe drew up.
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"I expect we'll strike the camp this afternoonsomewhere and maybe we'd better be starting rightalong now." They mounted, and rode on over the prairie.Jack had many questions to ask about what hadhappened in the Piegan camp during the winter, forthough Joe had told him much, there were still plentyof matters to be discussed. Hezekiah and Bull Calfwanted to ride fast, but Jack did not feel like doingso with his load, so he put the two shoulders of thedeer on Bull Calf's horse, and tied down what hecarried so that it would not shake, and they went onat a good pace. An hour or two of brisk ridingbrought them close to the stream; but before theyreached it they saw the trail where the camp hadpassed. There were tracks of a great band of horses,and many scratches left by travois poles; and in thetrail there were a number of fresher horse tracks,which showed where Hugh and Joe and the packanimals had passed along after the camp.
Then they all began to whoop and yell, and call outEagle Ribs' name, and say to him, "Now is the timeto show us what you can do. Here is your horse;now ride him." Eagle Ribs was riding a good horse,and at once accepted the challenge. He pressed theanimal close up to a bull, and when he was so nearthat his horse's side almost touched the buffalo's side,he reached far forward, grasped the long hair on thebuffalo's hump, and threw himself from his horseonto the bull's back. The bull was frightened, andfor a few minutes it ran faster than all the horses;and then forgetting that it was being chased, and onlyanxious to get rid of the terrible burden that it wascarrying, it stopped, and began to plunge and buck,and skip around, and acted as if it were a calf insteadof a huge old bull. Eagle Ribs clung to it with bothhands, and with his legs, but the bull jumped so high,and came down so hard, that two or three times hewas shaken from his seat. The boys all about himwere shouting with laughter, some of them callingout encouraging words to the bull, and some to therider.
An early start brought them to the Upper GeyserBasin not long after the sun had risen. Not far fromthe Grotto which they had seen last night was theGiant, with an enormous crater, from which great volumesof steam were escaping, and where the watercould be heard boiling below the surface, and occasionallyrising in great jets which splashed over the top.They camped near at hand, and turning out theirhorses, proceeded on foot to see Old Faithful, theBee-hive, the Giantess, the Grand, and many otherlarge geysers, besides many hot springs wonderfulin color and in the purity of their waters.
It was early in the afternoon when they reached111Shoshone Lake, and riding along its smooth, firmbeach, camped in a little point of spruces. The lakewas large, and looked as if it should have a fish in it.Jack got out his rod and put it together, and standingit against a tree, went back into the open meadowwhere the horses were feeding, to catch grasshoppers.He caught half a dozen, and then, returning, fishedfaithfully for quite a long distance along the shore,but without success. Neither could he see anywherethat fish were rising, and he wondered whether itcould be possible that this beautiful lake, whichseemed an ideal home for trout, should have none init. Joe, on the other hand, as soon as camp had beenmade, had taken his rifle and started out on foot,working along the edge of the lake and looking forgame. He found many old elk tracks and a very fewmade by deer, but went quite a long distance withoutseeing anything. Then, turning away from the shoreof the lake, and taking the hillside at some distancefrom it, he began to work back to the camp. Herethere were more deer tracks, but none that seemedworth while for him to follow, and he began to feeldiscouraged. When he had come almost opposite thecamp he crossed a wide dry water-course, going nowrather carelessly, though still making no noise, yetnot trying to keep out of sight. As he climbed thegentle slope, after crossing the little valley, and hadalmost reached the top, he stopped, and turned aboutand looked backward, and there to his astonishmentsaw, projecting above a patch of low willowsand weeds, the heads of two fawns. They were staringat him most innocently, but the camp needed112meat, and bringing his rifle to his shoulder he firedat the neck of one of them, and the little deer disappeared,while the other turned about and raced awaythrough the brush.
He was riding along slowly, letting Pawnee makehis own way among the loose rocks and tree-trunks,when he caught sight of an animal standing with itstail toward him, in a little opening among the trees.For an instant he thought it was a buckskin horse,and the idea flashed through his mind that there mustbe a camp down there. Almost before the thoughthad taken form, the animal moved a little, and he sawthat it was an elk. He slipped off his horse on theside furthest from the animal, and led Pawnee out ofsight behind a clump of pines, and left him there.Then he crept back to the ridge. In the timberbelow he soon made out half-a-dozen elk, and as hewatched, he could see quite a large bunch of cows andcalves. He lay there, watching and waiting. Thedrop down the hill into the valley was very steep, andhe was hoping that the elk might move into someposition where he would not have to go down tothem. They seemed uneasy and suspicious, and presentlysomething startled them, and they ran a littleway, and then stopped, looking back up the valley.Two big heifers stood almost side by side facing oppositeways, with their shoulders close together, andtheir heads in such position that their necks seemed123to cross. Jack raised his gun and took a careful sightat the necks, just below the heads, and pulled thetrigger. One of the cows dropped instantly, whilethe other, standing a moment to look, turned and ranoff. He heard the elk crashing through the timber ofthe valley, and then saw them climbing the bald hillson the other side, stopping every little while to lookback, and at last walking slowly off over the hills.
When the three friends got up next morning, andwent to the stream to wash, they could see nothing ofthe great range beneath which they were camped, forthe tall spruce trees which grew on the opposite bankcut off the view of everything beyond. After breakfastthey saddled up and having picketed two of thepack horses, set out to cross the river, and to getnearer to the mountains. The river was wide, and sodeep that the water came almost up to the saddleblankets, but they crossed comfortably enough, andriding through the open dry timber of the bottom,before long were approaching the high bluffs whichformed the first terrace above the river. In thebottom were many tracks of deer and elk, some of thedeer tracks quite fresh; and they almost rode over ahuge old porcupine, which waddled awkwardly to oneside, and then stopped among some low rose bushes,with its head between its forefeet, its quills erect, andits tail thrashing about in a threatening way. Jackstopped his horse and said to Hugh:
The weather was bright and pleasant, and theykept on down the stream, which constantly grewwider. Now there was some sage-brush on thebenches above the bottom, and often the trail keptaway from the stream, and close under these benches,in order to avoid the frequent wet and miry placeswhich would have troubled the horses. As Jack wasriding along he suddenly heard a shot behind him,and looking about, saw three deer running near the167top of a ridge, and just below the timber. Joe hadshot at one of them, and just after Jack looked round,two of them disappeared over the ridge. The lastone stopped almost at its crest, and looked back, andJoe fired again. The doe fell, and Joe rode up towhere she lay. The train was halted, and when thedeer had been brought down to the trail she was puton one of the packs and they started on again. Asthe bottom became wider it was evident that beaverhad been much at work here, and although they hadlong deserted it, the marshes and sloughs and mud-holescaused by their damming of the stream stillremained as pitfalls for the traveller.
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It did not take the boys long to saddle up theirriding horses and a pack animal, and when they wereon horseback the distance to the moose was not great.When they reached it they tied their horses, andwalked up to the carcass to begin the skinning. Butbefore they did anything, Joe said, "Hold on, Jack!look a-here! There's been a bear here since we'vebeen gone;" and sure enough, the tracks of a middle-sizedbear were seen about the carcass, and the holemade by Joe's knife was wet around the edges, as ifsome animal had been licking it. Jack looked allaround, but of course nothing living was to be seennow.
One morning as they were riding along, Jack noticedthe trail of a big bunch of horses, driven fast, goingthe opposite way from themselves and turning off intothe hills to the north. He asked Hugh who wouldbe driving a bunch of horses through that country,and where they were going; but Hugh could not tellhim.
It was but little after midday, and Jack knew thatsomething important must have happened, but heasked no questions, waiting for Hugh to speak.After they had unsaddled, and put up the lodge, Hughtold the boys to picket the three riding horses whilehe got dinner. Jack had told Joe about the brand,and both boys were a good deal excited, wonderingwhat was coming next.