Besides those big cartridges must be costly, I thought, and said so to Mr.Dunlap.
"When you're hunting Border Ruffians," said he, "a little expense don't count one way or the other; and you may be willing to pay dear for a chance to reload three or four times while the other man is ramming home a new charge.

Give me the new guns, the new ideas, and the old doctrine of freedom to fight for.

Don't you see ?" "Why, of course," said I, "I'm for freedom.

That's why I'm going out on the prairies." "Prairies!" said old Evans.

"Prairies! What do you expect to do on the prairies ?" "Farm," I answered.
"All these folks that are rushing to the prairies," said the old man, "will starve out and come back.