8. Your brother's hands, wherein you see
Only these scars, show more to me
Than if a kingdom's price I found
In place of each forgotten wound."


DEFINITIONS.--1. Doomed, destined, condemned. 2. Charmed, bewitched,
enchanted. 3. Blew, blossomed, bloomed. 4. Weird, tainted with witchcraft,
supernatural. Quick, alive, living. 6. Im-pe'ri-al, royal. 7 Mute, silent.



LXXX. CAPTURING THE WILD HORSE.

1. We left the buffalo camp about eight o'clock, and had a toilsome and
harassing march of two hours, over ridges of hills covered with a ragged
forest of scrub oaks, and broken by deep gullies.

2. About ten o'clock in the morning we came to where this line of rugged
hills swept down into a valley, through which flowed the north fork of Red
River. A beautiful meadow, about half a mile wide, enameled with yellow,
autumnal flowers, stretched for two or three miles along the foot of the
hills, bordered on the opposite side by the river, whose banks were
fringed with cottonwood trees, the bright foliage of which refreshed and
delighted the eye, after being wearied by the contemplation of monotonous
wastes of brown forest.

3. The meadow was finely diversified by groves and clumps of trees, so
happily dispersed that they seemed as if set out by the hand of art. As we