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Plainsmen to this day call it Larmie in that iconoclastic slaughter of every poetic title that is their proud characteristic. All over our grand continent it is the same.
He is a soldier, out by Fort Larmie." "Yes?" said Davies, smiling. "Then perhaps I'll see him some day. I expect to be out there before long." "And you are a soldier, too! Ach Gott! ein offizier?" she exclaimed, in consternation, born of German associations. "Not yet, though I suppose I shall be very soon. What is your boy's regiment?"
We reached Pan-handle creek about twenty-five miles from Log-Cabin Post Office. In due time we pitched camp and set our traps. One line of traps extended to Larmie river; And the other to the forks of the Cache LaPuche. We set for gray wolves, mountain lion, grizzley bear, mink, otter and foxes. We had good luck and made a large catch of fur and drew some large bounties.
It was fast going from the neighboring mountains, too both the streams told plainly of that, for while the Platte rolled along in great, swift surges under the Engineer Bridge, its smaller tributary the "Larmie," as the soldiers called it came brawling and foaming down its stony bed and sweeping around the back of the fort with a wild vehemence that made some of the denizens of the south end decidedly nervous.
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