This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...gentlemen; and she moved fearlessly among them, never bold and unwomanly, yet treating them all with equal kindness. And, though there were undoubtedly dishonest men among them, if any one was disposed to take advantage of Harry's absences to plunder or injure anything about The Warren, he very well knew that his own life would not be worth a penny among those rough men, if they should chance to learn that he had stolen or destroyed anything belonging to Harry Marston. THIS we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.--Sr. PAUL. ONE pleasant day during the third summer of their sojourn on the prairie, Aunt Jennie and Harry were out riding, some miles from The Warren. Harry was looking for antelope, and Aunt Jennie was enjoying the wild, free life of the frontier, by joining him in a long canter across the prairie. They had ridden to the top of a hill, and were carefully looking over the country for game, when Aunt Jennie suddenly broke the silence with the unexpected question, --"How many skulls of dead buffalo do you suppose there are in sight? " _ " Millions, for aught I know," replied Harry. "They are like the stars--innumerable." "But you know," said Aunt J ennie, "that there are, after all, only a few thousand stars visible to the naked eye." "Yes, that is true," said the young man. "And I presume there are not many thousands of those heads within sight; still, they are pretty thick in this region. Do you know, Aunt Jennie, how much one of them is worth? " "Not much, I fancy," she replied with a laugh. " It 's about all your life is worth when your horse steps on one in a dark night. You remember I...