Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . KORT ELLICE. TO EED RIVER never whispered the wise things and the secretswhich they might have told. Sand-hill cranes—huge birds, delicious to eat, and worth creepinga hundred rods to shoot—would start from manyhollows as we came up over the nearest hill, andwe could see their ungainly majesties putting onairs and stalking about on the top of distantsand-hills, talcing care to fly before we werewithin rifle-shot, and mocking us with theirclanging cry till their white, van-like wings werefaint white specks in the distant air. Monda
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . KORT ELLICE. TO EED RIVER never whispered the wise things and the secretswhich they might have told. Sand-hill cranes—huge birds, delicious to eat, and worth creepinga hundred rods to shoot—would start from manyhollows as we came up over the nearest hill, andwe could see their ungainly majesties putting onairs and stalking about on the top of distantsand-hills, talcing care to fly before we werewithin rifle-shot, and mocking us with theirclanging cry till their white, van-like wings werefaint white specks in the distant air. Monday, the 8th of August, we camped neara knoll whence the Assiniboine and the tribu-taries of QuAppelle River were both Ellice, to which we were journeying, wastwo or three miles this side of the junction ofthese two rivers. Our leader had persisted thatwe were going too far north to strike the fort;and a few days before had become so convincedthat his own practiced ignorance was superiorto the guides uneducated knowledge (for Mi-chelle had been
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