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Part of Sioux County, June 17-July 2, 1911

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paragraph, and I hurry on.

a few stones, and turned in. An

We had arranged with Mr. and lirs.
fpriddy, occupying the next ranch north,
half a mile away, to furnish us bread,
butter, and milk. Our other supplies
came from Harrison. The bread was Ss
hard to beat - great, white loeves, -
fatted out above the waist-line and

crowned with gold, and toothsome to a

degree the memory of which brings

') tears to my mental eyes. And the

§) butter was good. But except at rare

_ intervals, the milk - the milk! For-

sooth, why will othervise righteous

cows indulge in the yucca habit!

Throughout the length and breadth of

this long and broad region, the yucca
flourishes; end wherever it flourishes,

_, it flourishes only until ea mild-eyed

‘| bossy can wrap her prehensile and rugose

tongue about the flowers and transfer

them to her preliminary stomach, where

with weird alchemy she starts the proc-

ess of their ultimate conversion into

milk. The finished product bears an |
Bide on sey which ilies ieakundive:. Onee yucca-wise, however, the — a
victim, if he recover, is chastened and disereet; never again for him. ‘ }
And now comes the sad necessity of confessing that among our nuniber there

wes one - I resvect his family ps
and withhold his name - who was
so far departed. from ways of
rectitude that he "did not mind
the slight flavor imparted by
the yucca," and to him and a
vacillating follower or two fell
the pleasure of using our daily
supply. ~ This is a dispiriting



I did not find time to
select a place on the canyon side
for my bunk before dark, so I
took my blanket and mosquito hood
late in the evening and fered
forth to lay me down and sleep.
Crossing the roed, I worried my
wey uo the slope until I found a
fairly level place, clerred away



interval of questionable duration





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