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He said that the settlement was no more than five or six miles from where we then were in camp, and perhaps we could get some information in regard to where the Indians had been stealing stock and doing other depradations to the settlers.
Two boys employed as messengers at the capitol, both of whom are now prominent business men in the city, procured a key to the house, and, in company with a number of other kids, proceeded to representative hall, where they were frequently in the habit of congregating for the purpose of playing cards, smoking cigars, and committing such other depradations as it was possible for kids to conceive.
"Oh, never you mind about the chicken thieves," grumbled Jack Ness. "Has somebody been stealing chickens again?" asked Dick, remembering that they had suffered several times from such depradations. "Yes, da has took two chickens las' Wednesday, foah on Saturday, an' two on Monday. Jack he laid fo' 'em wid a shotgun, but he didn't cotch nobody."
She soon forgot the fright of her boy-bandit, although she did wonder just where the boys were, and if they had found any evidence of that person's depradations. "Come Cricket," she spoke to her pony. "We must try a cross-cut. I want some mandrakes." The horse pricked up his ears in response. Dorothy turned into a field where she thought the plum-shaped fruit would be found.
It is thus that we shall find reason to conclude an immense period of time, in those operations which are measured by the depradations of water acting upon the surface of the earth; a period however which is to be esteemed a little thing compared with that in which a continent had taken birth and gone into decay; but a period which interests us the more to examine, in that it approaches nearer to another period, for the estimation of which some data may perhaps be found by naturalists and antiquaries, when their researches shall be turned to this subject.
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