Old Cuff followed me all around town, but when we got ready to start for camp the dog was gone and could not be found.

Some one had hidden him away knowing he could not be gotten any other way, for six ounces would not have bought him.

We had raised him in Wisconsin, made him a good deer dog, and with us he had crossed the dry and sandy deserts.

He had been a great protection to Bennett's children on the plains, and company for us all.
We now located claims on the creek bottom.

The channel of the creek was claimed by Holman of Alabama and the Helms brothers of Missouri.