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ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAM. 211 noticed with great satisfaction, and scarcely less astonish- ment, that Big Horn steadily refused to drink anything, while Sam was so generally known as a teetotaler, that no one thought of pressing drink upon him, though many of their entertainers were already getting somewhat boisterous under its influence. “Well, if Big Horn is really in love with the little Man- dan maiden,” silently commented the old man to himself, ‘‘love can work more wonders than I gave it credit for.” In two hours’ time they began to prepare for the ascent —it being the intention of Max to pass the night in a cer- tain gas-canon of the neighborhood, as a preliminary to an early start for the battle-field on the following morning—and Miss Mollie, with Mewanee and Fayaway, and surrounded by her new friends, who had already made up the deficiency in her raiment, came out to bid them good-by. Teddy also turned up at the proper time, cheerful and smiling, but, fora wonder, sober asan owl; which provoked another satisfactory mental comment upon the part of his superior. ‘‘All aboard!” sang out the professor, in his shrill voice. *Good-by, ail! Good-by, Miss Mollie! I-predict that you will meet some very agreeable friends in the course of a few days. Teddy, you blundering gossoon! what are you dreaming about? Cast off that anchor!” So wafted upward by the shouts and huzzas of the whole garrison, the hardy balloonists once more soared into the realms of space. CHAPTER XXXII. THE LAST BATTLE. On the following morning, at the first streak of dawn, the aeronants were again in the air, after having passed the © night in a canon weil suited to their purpose, where they had slept refreshingly, and obtained an excellent supply of as. } The wind was due south, and the balloon made such ex- cellent progress, that in two hours Lieutenant Dutton’s camp camein sight. ‘Teddy was the first to observe it. ‘Be jabbers! there they are jist where we left them,” he GEomicbooks (ele)