back with pa's remains on a buckboard.

I went up to the wagon to see if Pa looked natural, and he raised
up, like a corpse coming to, and said: "Hennery, did you notice
how I roped the black steer?" and I said: "Yes, pa, I saw the
whole business, and saw you start south, chasing the steer, armed
only with a saddle, and what is the news from Texas?"

Pa said: "Look-a-here, I don't want to hear any funny business. I
delivered the goods all right, and if the cinch of the saddle had
held out faithful to the end, I would have tied the steer in
record time, but man proposes and the rest you have to leave to
luck. I was out of luck, that is all, but the ride I had across
the prairie has given me some ideas about flying machines that
will be worked into our show next year."

Pa got up off the buckboard and shook himself, and he was just as
well and hearty as ever, and the cowboys got around him, and told
him he was a wonder, and that Buffalo Bill couldn't hold a candle
to him as an all-around rough rider and cowboy combined. So pa
hired about a dozen of the cowboys to go with our show, and then
we went into camp for the night, and the cowboys told of a place
about 20 miles away, where some scientists had a camp, where they
were excavating to dig out petrified bone of animals supposed to
be extinct, like the dinosaurus and the hoday, and Pa wanted to go
there and see about it, and the next day we took half a dozen of
the cowboys Pa had hired, and we rode to the camp.

Gee, but I never believed that such animals ever did exist in this
country, but the scientists had one animal picture that showed the