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vultures hover round

vultures hover round when cattle are dying. Honest, fellows, id just dearly love to pull on a rope and watch one of the varmints make his last kick. Several days of showery weather followed. Crossing the cimarron, we followed up its north slope to within thirty miles of the regular western trail. Not wishing to intercept it until necessity compelled us, when near the kansas line we made our last tack for dodge. The rains had freshened the country and flushed the creeks, making our work easy, and early in the month of june we reached the mulberry. Traveling at random, we struck that creek about twenty miles below the trail, and moved up