They believe that over the whole plains country, except in a few localities where they still remain, the sheep have been exterminated, and this is probably what has happened.

The plains tribes were fed and clothed and armed and housed by means of the buffalo.

And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend!

But during the hot months the capital and the plains cities to the eastward send their quota of summer idlers and the house fills to its capacity.

In the lower plains coffee, tobacco, cotton, and cinchona are cultivated.

We found the land on the left bank of the eastern branch of very good and grassy description, consisting of a range of granite hills about ten miles north and south, and two miles in width; to the east of which the high sandy and level plains commence in an abrupt line of sandstone slopes and hills.

On the great plains cougars rarely get antelope, but here the country is broken so that the big cats can make their stalks under favorable circumstances.

I thanked him for his Information, and believing him so incorrigible as that he would stay till it was his Turn to be taken, I made off to the Door, and overtook some few, who, though they would not hearken to Plain-dealing, were now terrified to good purpose by the Example of others:

Accompanied by the same party, but with three fresh horses, we again started to explore the plains eastwards towards Mount Blaze.

and let the ice-plains echo, God! God!

'You can do these landscapes better in Italy,' she explained, and, with the indescribable gesture of plains folk stifled in broken ground, 'I want to push these hills away and get into the open again!

That's whyand because of how you may have to wait, un-com-plain-ing, in rotting idleness for the next tea party.

He was a plains-man in every sense of the word, yet unlike any other of his class.

Here the true Spouse the lost-beloved regains, And on the enamell'd couch of summer-plains Mingles sweet kisses with the west-wind's breath.

Like Lewis and Clark, Pike found the country literally swarming with game; for all the great plains region, from the Saskatchewan to the Rio Grande, formed at this time one of the finest hunting grounds to be found in the whole world.

All the early travellers seem to have been almost equally impressed by the interminable seas of grass, the strange, shifting, treacherous plains rivers, and the swarming multitudes of this great wild ox of the West.

Thus Dr. C. Hart Merriam writes me: "I do not believe that the plains sheep have been driven to the mountains at all, but that they have been exterminated over the greater part of their former range.

To this end, so far as is practicable, all units are sent to the hills for the first hot weather after their arrival in India, and they are thus able to settle down to their new conditions of life without being immediately exposed to the trying and enervating environment of a plains station in the summer months.

Oft from his marble towers the plains surveys, And sees his foes' most ancient cities blaze; While his pa-te-si lead his allied hosts, And o'er his famous victories he boasts.

The cotton of India is conveyed by British ships round half our planet, to be woven by British skill in the factories of Lancashire; it is again set in motion by British capital, and transported to the very plains whereon it grew, is repurchased by the lords of the soil which gave it birth, at a cheaper price than that at which their coarser machinery enables them to manufacture it themselves.

Around him swarm the plaining ghosts Like those on Virgil's shore A wilderness of faces dim, And pale ones gashed and hoar.

" "Well, 'twon't be many minutes afore we're out on the plains agin, so we'll ride along kind er midlin fast;" and, putting spurs to our horses, we soon emerged from the gloomy defile, out into the bright sunshine again.

" =329.= A sweet, low voice, in starry nights, Chants to his ear a 'plaining song; Its tones come winding up the heights, Telling of woe and wrong; And he must listen, till the stars grow dim, The song that gentle voice doth sing to him.

We perceive that everywhere are "Swelling hills and spacious plains Besprent from shore to shore with steeple-towers, And spires whose silent finger points to heaven.

The wagons used in those days by Russell, Majors & Waddell were known as the "J. Murphy wagons," made at St. Louis specially for the plains business.