Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 545
ng on acreek, the boys put up their tent, unyoked thecattle, who were too tired to stray, dropped intotheir blankets, and slept until long after the nextdays sunrise. Many of the cattle brought here, after the driveacross the Great Plains, were left to die. The boysrested one day, and, when another… … THE MIRAGE. luster that covered the plain, a lame steer, turnedout to die, and standing away off from the trail,loomed up like a giraffe. To the startled lads, itseemed at first a balloon ; then a phantom cow.Looking back, the long train seemed to rise upand melt away into the air; and forward, the…
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