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"Well, he said that once he was out on horseback, and had cornered a young buffalo bull in among some limestone ledges up there on the Upper Fork, and 'the critter turned on him and made a nasty noise with his mouth-like, so that he was glad to turn and run. 'Nasty noise with his mouth, I suppose was a sort of a snort a snort-like, as Younkins would say. There come the rest of the folks.
The boys took great satisfaction in their kitchen-garden near the house in which they were tenants; for when Younkins lived there, he had ploughed and spaded the patch, and planted it two seasons, so now it was an old piece of ground compared with the wild land that had just been broken up around it.
"That's what you want for your next cabin," said Younkins, pointing his finger in the direction of the pines. "Best kind of stuff for building there is in these parts."
"Bully boy!" said Younkins, admiringly. "Car' yer baggage aboard, boss?" asked the lively young darky. "Take it along," said Sandy, with a lordly air. They shook hands with Younkins once more, this time with more fervor than ever. Then the three lads filed on board the steamboat.
"Looks sorter homelike here," said Younkins, with a pleased smile, as he drew his bench to the well-spread board and glanced around at the walls of the cabin, where the boys had already hung their fishing-tackle, guns, Oscar's violin, and a few odds and ends that gave a picturesque look to the long-deserted cabin. "Yes," said Mr.
It was a merry and a buoyant company that started out in the early dawn of a September morning, having snatched a hasty breakfast, of which the excited boys had scarcely time to taste. Buffalo beef, they confidently said, was their favorite meat. They would dine on buffalo hump that very day. Oscar, more cautious than the others, asked Younkins if they were sure to see buffalo soon.
How much does it cost in fees to enter a piece of Government land?" "I think it is about twenty-five dollars twenty-six, to be exact," replied Mr. Bryant. "There comes Younkins," he added, looking down the trail to the river bank below.
"It's pretty mean for Uncle Sam to leave the settlers to take care of themselves and the post at this critical time, I know; but we can't afford to quibble about that now. Safety is the first consideration. What does Younkins say?" he asked of Battles. "A randyvoo has been appointed at my house to-night," said the man, "and Younkins said he would be there before sundown.
We can build two cabins, and you old folks can live in one, and we in another." The fathers exchanged glances, and Mr. Howell said, "I don't see how I could live without Sandy and Charlie." Younkins brightened up at Sandy's suggestion; and he added that the two men might take up two farming claims, side by side, and let the boys try and hold the timber claim on the North Branch.
"If that's the case," said the easy-going Younkins, "what's the use of going home? If the corn is gone, you can't get it back by looking at the place where it was."
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