No matter how fur you went you'd see oceans uv green trees ahead uv you, an' on one side uv you prairies covered with buffaler herds so big that they'd be a week passin' you, an' then they'd still be passin'." Long Jim heaved a deep sigh and was silent for a while.

Paul, too, was silent.

At last Long Jim said: "I s'pose it don't pay, Paul, to be drawin' sech splendiferous pictures uv what ain't.

Now I've gone an' made myself onhappy, talkin' uv them glorious huntin' grounds that stretch away without end, when here we are in this hot box so narrer I can't straighten out my legs.

Besides, I'm gittin' pow'ful hungry.