. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. happened whilesome pretense of numbers and military formalities wasstill affected. My guard-shift came on at was alleged that I failed to respond to the call ofthe sentinel whom I was to relieve. It was at thetime raining and blustering forbiddingly without. Itwas much more inviting beneath the protecting wagonsheets than out upon the bleak, howling plain. Hencethe presumption of guilt lay manifestly against me,and I was promptly arraigned and tried on the witty and brilliant attorney from C
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. happened whilesome pretense of numbers and military formalities wasstill affected. My guard-shift came on at was alleged that I failed to respond to the call ofthe sentinel whom I was to relieve. It was at thetime raining and blustering forbiddingly without. Itwas much more inviting beneath the protecting wagonsheets than out upon the bleak, howling plain. Hencethe presumption of guilt lay manifestly against me,and I was promptly arraigned and tried on the witty and brilliant attorney from Columbus, Ohio,volunteered to defend me. The counsel laid muchstress on my unsophisticated make-up, and thus in aserio-comic vein affected to appeal to the sympathy ofthe court. But the court nevertheless remained in-exorable, and a double stent of guard duty was thefinding. Whether or not that judgment was ever car-ried into effect, is a matter that does not appear ofrecord. Near where we forded the South Platte we had the 1 Sec Moonlight camp scene on the Humboldt, on page 22 THE SCARCITY OF GAME. good fortune to come upon a large village of the Siouxwhich was squatted temporarily in the locality. TheseIndians struck me as being dejjidedly comely speci-mens of their race—neat, healthy, self-poised. Theirdress was made chiefly of white-tanned skins, andlooked very picturesque in its elaborate decorations ofbeadwork and other fanciful adornments peculiar tosavagery. I had the honor of being one of a partythat called upon the chief in his tepee, and of exchang-ing whiffs of the pipe of peace with that much heapbig Ingin. Our dignihed host at once bespoke ourconfidence by his gracious assurance that the Siouxhad never shed the blood of the pale-face. During thewhole of the ceremony, one of the attaches of his royalmuckamuck regaled us with a half-gutteral, half-nasalchant, to which he marked time with the swing of therattle. Game was bv no means as plentiful as one wouldha^
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