Wild life in the far west : personal adventures of a border mountain man . found my jacks missing and did not tind them till Ihad searched two days, when I brought them into were so frightened by the bear that they wander-ed off farther than T ever knew them to stray bi^ my travel after my jacks I saw several species ofbears, grizzly, black, and cinnamon, but they were notnear by and I concluded not to attack them. During 390 PLENTY OF GAME. my absence my friends had killed a deer, and I enjoy-ed my supper of venison steak very much, as my ap-petite was good. I told the
Wild life in the far west : personal adventures of a border mountain man . found my jacks missing and did not tind them till Ihad searched two days, when I brought them into were so frightened by the bear that they wander-ed off farther than T ever knew them to stray bi^ my travel after my jacks I saw several species ofbears, grizzly, black, and cinnamon, but they were notnear by and I concluded not to attack them. During 390 PLENTY OF GAME. my absence my friends had killed a deer, and I enjoy-ed my supper of venison steak very much, as my ap-petite was good. I told them I considered that we werein greater danger from bears in this vicinity than wewere from the desperadoes we left at the mining camp,and to my mind it seemed like jumping out of the fry-ing pan into the fire. So we agreed to pack up andleave these pests, and go where we need not be on thelookout for bears day and night. We left early nextmorning and traveled three days, in which time I thinkwe saw more game in the way of bears and deer, thanI ever saw before in my CHAPTER XXVI. AFTER going a short distance, we came across awild steer, and I told my companions that wemust be nearing some settlement. The steer wasfrightened, and left at the top of his speed. We jour-neyed on till evening, when, seeing a stream of water,we camped for the night and j)repared supper. Soonwe heard the barking of a dog, and on looking arounddiscerned a light in the distance, which seemed to comefrom some house. Jones wanted to saddle up and gotowards it, but I persuaded him to remain where wewere till morning. Early in the morning, after eating,we proceeded in the direction of the light we had seenthe evening previous, and came to a very large andtlirifty looking Mexican ranche and stock farm. Whenwe arrived the people were milking the cows, and onseeing us became friglitened and ran to the house, butthey aoon returned and inquired our business. Amongthem was an old gray-haired man, who asked u
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