But I pity the men with wives and daughters." "Well, I hope we shall soon put a stop to it," Reuben said cheerfully.

"We will give them a lesson if we catch them, you may be quite sure." "I hope so," the settler said.

"But you folks have been mighty unlucky, lately.

Never seem to have been at the right place at the right time.

Not that I am surprised at that, in such a district; but somehow they never come up with the fellows, afterwards." "No, they seem to have had bad luck," Reuben agreed.