Buffaloe signs, and deer signs, ar' plenty; but where ar' thy Indian footsteps, Abiram ?" "Still farther west," returned the other, pointing in the direction he named.

"This was the spot where I struck the tracks of the buck; it was after I took the deer, that I fell upon the Teton trail." "And a bloody piece of work you made of it, man," cried the squatter, pointing tauntily to the soiled garments of his kinsman, and then directing the attention of the spectators to his own, by the way of a triumphant contrast.

"Here have I cut the throats of two lively does, and a scampering fawn, without spot or stain; while you, blundering dog as you ar', have made as much work for Eester and her girls, as though butchering was your regular calling.

Come, boys; it is enough.

I am too old not to know the signs of the frontiers; no Indian has been here since the last fall of water.