But this womern hain't quite alone.

She's got a little sister with her that knows a hull lot better how to do for her than any darned man would!" It grew dark and cold--a keen, still, frosty spring evening which filled the sky with stars and bespoke a sunny day for to-morrow, with settled warmer weather.

The geese and ducks were still calling from the sky, and not far away the prairie wolves were howling about one of the many carcasses of dead animals which the stream of immigration had already dropped by the wayside.

I was dead sleepy, and was about to turn in, when my black-bearded man last seen in Dubuque with a constable holding him by the arm, came driving up, and went about among the various wagons as if looking for something.

I knew he was seeking me, and spoke to him.
"Oh!" he said, as if all at once easier in his mind.