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I make my Home at Fort McPherson Arrival of my Family Hunting and Horse Racing An Indian Raid Powder Face Stolen A Lively Chase An Expedition to the Republican River Country General Duncan A Skirmish with the Indians A Stern Chase An Addition to my Family Kit Carson Cody I am made a Justice of the Peace A Case of Replevin I perform a Marriage Ceremony Professor Marsh's Fossil-Hunting Expedition.
Shortly after my return I received orders instructing me to accompany Professor Marsh on a fossil-hunting expedition into the rough lands of the Big Horn Basin. The party was to consist of a number of scientists besides Professor Marsh, together with twenty-five students from Yale, which institution was sending out the expedition. I was to get together thirty-five saddle-horses for the party.
There he was left, while his companions went fossil-hunting, and stayed so long as to excite their compunction, and quicken their steps when they at length detached themselves from the enticing blue lias. 'What has he got there? cried Aubrey. 'Hillo, old fellow! have you fallen a prey to a black cat?
Be sure you look for it, if you are fossil-hunting in the Museum, for it is a most interesting specimen, and has been found in rocks deep down in the earth's crust. Now, next to this Crab and Lobster family, come that of the Spiders, and then that of the Insects. Perhaps you will say, "But what are spiders, if they are not insects?"
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