General Sheridan appoints me Guide and Chief of Scouts of the Fifth CavalryThe Dog SoldiersGeneral Forsyth's Fight on the Arickaree Fork.

Wild Bill, however, raised some money, by borrowing it from a friend, and then buying me a steamboat ticket he sent me back to Leavenworth, while he went to Springfield, which place he made his headquarters while scouting in southeastern Missouri.

His real name was James B. Hickok; he afterwards became famous as "Wild Bill, the Scout of the Plains"though why he was so called I never could ascertainand from this time forward I shall refer to him by his popular nickname.

Arrival of the Fifth Cavalry at Fort HaysOut on a ScoutA little Skirmish with IndiansA Buffalo HuntA False Alarm in campA Scout on the BeaverThe Supply Camp is SurprisedArrival of General CarrThe new Lieutenant and his ReceptionAnother Indian HuntAn EngagementA Crack ShotI have a little Indian fight of my ownReturn to Fort WallaceWhile hunting Buffaloes with a small Party, we are Attacked by Fifty Indians.

"Mr. Cody has since served with me as post guide and scout at Fort McPherson, where he frequently distinguished himself.

On my way I stopped at Junction City, where I again met my old friend Wild Bill, who was scouting for the government; his headquarters being at Fort Ellsworth, afterwards called Fort Harker.

His unfortunate companion who had been shot, was a scout from Springfield, Missouri, whose name I cannot now remember.

During the civil war he enlisted as a private, and became a scout with the Union army; since the war he has been employed as hunter, trapper, guide, scout and actor.

Boy Scouts in Open Plains; or, the Round-up not Ordered-.

A century ago the very idea of a stable federation of forty powerful states, covering a territory nearly equal in area to the whole of Europe, carried on by a republican government elected by universal suffrage, and guaranteeing to every tiniest village its full meed of local independence,the very idea of all this would have been scouted as a thoroughly impracticable Utopian dream.

For several days we scouted along the Canadian River, but found no signs of Indians.

On leaving camp, the command took a westward course up the Republican, and Major North with two companies of his Pawnees and two or three companies of cavalry, under the command of Colonel Royal, made a scout to the north of the river.

" In this order they began once more to scout through the smoke.

I didn't know any scouts around our way that could be camping there, but whenever a scout sees a scout sign he usually likes to follow it up.

"I am a scout under General McNiel.

With you to start a company and carry it along we'll beat Hillsdale and her old Girl Scouts to a frazzle, I know we can.

They scout before the squadrons when mighty fleets engage; They glean War's dreadful harvest when the fight has ceased to rage; Too great they count no hazard, no task beyond their power, And merchantmen bless small craft a hundred times an hour.

So Jay returned, falling suddenly out of the music of the sea into the band-of-hopeful music of distant Boy Scouts on the march.

Freedom "The Union soldiers came in a gang out from Washington all over the surrounding country, scouting about, and notified all the black folks of freedom.

Some time in the last half of the night following, I was detailed, along with a considerable detachment from two mounted companies, to ride on a scout toward Obraja.

He was of the nobility, this brave lad, and he had been sent out scouting by Lord Wellington to see if there were any signs of our advancing through the mountains.

I thought I knew the surrounding country as I had scouted over it for months, tracing roads and bridle-paths, yet I was puzzled now.

As they footed slowly along the winding path, Flounce, the fox-terrier, who had scouted among strange clumps of bamboo, now rejoined them briskly, cantering with her fore-legs delicately stiff and joyful.

General Custer thanked me for having brought him straight across the country without any trail, and said that if I were not engaged as post scout at Fort Hays he would like to have me accompany him as one of his scouts during the summer; and he added that whenever I was out of employment, if I would come to him he would find something for me to do.

" I was prepared for the wild Cherokees on our journey of yesterday, but it amazed me that the savages should come scouting into the Tidewater itself.