To distract the impatient westerners, a servant unhooked from the wall the cage of a gently-cooing dove.

" Next day found the westerners on board the schooner sailing out from the harbor of New York.

I made light of this hunting trip in which it had turned out I had no gun, no horse, no blankets, no rain-proof tent, no adequate amount of food supplies, and no good luck, except the wonderful good luck of being well, of seeing a magnificent country, of meeting some more fine westerners.