Show the old settler my dear san Jua nars we were eighteen long unmeasured miles from camp ani and the sun was dipping over t the h e clay hill rim but those seven big tracks still led down the bottom of the gulch and we followed steers joe declared tell that by size 0 the tracks well how bow far can we go down his gulch anyway I 1 askee thinking of supper and bed an anc i the coming night I 1 si remember sa I 1 aig 9 jump 1 ump for long we cant get 1 down I 1 I 1 we tried to speed up a litter ut lit our ll 11 horses ies just switched thoi 1 nils ails in recognition to our rowells rowell 1 or they had done about as bucl is one day should require aher 1 ve came at length to fo that jump bold a trail had been work iown awn along the side of the cliff clif around it and the big tracks wen lown that trail hugh joe sniffed knothe hing them jones fellers has madr lust be jest aget down tabe tr ater an nother jump below corral by gum we went down but it was n orral lorral the trail led on om and on it was not quite dark when w ame to another jump and ar ther trail down clown around it th tones nes outfit again we rode up i to the edge and deere nto ito nt o the depths below we saw ater hole bole and by it the apers beyond them was a jam burr d no trail to gat down eally r EJ ally lly we got got em yelled jo amt s the matter of p rr back to camp wed q F a lake th steers with us in il i ta t 0 lin ling wed wolf volf it v tild afford that now since 1 got these steers with lim 1 nd d ston we improvised a sarr re te that narrow en the ibe steers in their cv cl n und c arra aral and then we tur 0 1 a I cave where the joc ouk ad hsen heen crall crimping ping 0 borses wor ses kin kinZl ailed led a sm ill fire ane ana continued on inside page the old settler continued f from rom pane paire 1 sat down on our saddles all we had to do was to forget about bed and supper and doze right there till morning by the light of ia little more fire we saw some ancient walls in the other end of the cave and near it holes ini in the sand where the ljones jones outfit had been digging for relics say joe burst out hopefully them jones fellers might have hava some beans of flour or bacon cached here in licis dry sand or maybe a sacka jerky when our firelight fire light had penetrated let the cave a little farther he be burst oat again by gum theres a sacka jerky by a wire aidea them walls he made mada for it and our mouths watered in anticipation I 1 got out my packet knife figuring I 1 would cut in it thin delicious shavings he dragged the seamless sack towards the fire tugging wit with lithe the string that tied it and we remembered the tha well cured kind of jerky for which the jones outfit was famous what the li joe exploded as he dragged something out of the sack and dropped the whole thing like a hot potato it was the foot and part of cf the lowr leg of a man the jones outfit had bad dug up a mummy and some pottery and hung them up in that sack we find anything to eat we feel very hungry ALBERT R LYMAN |