Captain Bill McDonald, Texas ranger; a story of frontier reform . quetting with rattlesnakes was atleast more boisterously exciting. They got four or five wolves that first day andthe next, most of them also taken alive by Aber-nethy, and these they carried to camp and lariatedout. It was a good start for a menagerie, and theyadded to it daily. It was on the second day that Chief Quanahsfamily arrived—his favorite wife, Too-nicey, andthe two others whose names are not remembered,but may have been Some-nicey and Quite-nice-enough, together with a small boy and a papoose;and these in their hack
Captain Bill McDonald, Texas ranger; a story of frontier reform . quetting with rattlesnakes was atleast more boisterously exciting. They got four or five wolves that first day andthe next, most of them also taken alive by Aber-nethy, and these they carried to camp and lariatedout. It was a good start for a menagerie, and theyadded to it daily. It was on the second day that Chief Quanahsfamily arrived—his favorite wife, Too-nicey, andthe two others whose names are not remembered,but may have been Some-nicey and Quite-nice-enough, together with a small boy and a papoose;and these in their hack followed the hunt with theothers. It was a genuine jubilee when a coyote wasstarted up and was followed by that boisterous com-pany; the buggy of War Bonnet, and Burnetthitting only the high jDlaces; Too-nicey and hermatrimonial alliance bouncing along in the hack,with the dog-wagon, wildly excited—a regular canineexplosion—bringing up the rear. Then, what ex-citement when the wolf was finally run down andkilled or captured; what rejoicing by everybody—. IN CAMP WITH THEODORE gathered about the big fire, cowboy fashion. THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY *STO«, LfNOX ATILDEH FOUNDAi A Wolf-hunt ivith the PresirJnif 283 including Too-nicey, Quite-nicey, and Pretty-nicey,or whatever their names might be. But now it develoi)ed that the three Niceys couldserve a good purpose on a hunt like that as well asfor mere decoration. They had eyes—marvelouseyes—that could see a wolf far across the prairiewhen the eyes of white men could not distinguisheven a sign. There was no need of a glass when thewives of Quanah sat in their hack and scanned thehorizon. Certainly that was an unusual huntingparty, and very likely a unique experience, for allconcerned. But perhaps the best part of the hunting was theevening, after all. Then it was that they gatheredabout the big fire, cowboy fashion, with ChiefQuanah Parker in their midst, talking to them—repeating the traditions of
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